Ultrastudios

Studio

One studio has become many

A cultural association since 2012; a studio for graphic design, curation and creative direction since 2026. The same house, more rooms.

The story

Ultrastudios began in 2012 as a space for artists: invitations, hospitality, exhibitions. For more than a decade this work was sustained by many presences: artists, curators, technicians, friends who raised walls in the middle of the night. That history is not a backdrop to be invoked: it is the foundation on which our work can now grow wider.

For years the association was called Ultrastudio, in the singular. Since 2026 it has been Ultrastudios.

A single letter, and all the difference.

One studio has become many: more practices, more rooms, more ways of working under the same roof. Graphic design, illustration, photography and sound have found their place beside the exhibitions. They are not new languages: they are fields that once stayed at the edge of the frame and now belong within it.

The pink Good boy booklet resting on a large white hand, on the grey studio floor
Robbie Auspurger, Good boy — the exhibition booklet. Via Raiale. Photo: Ultrastudios.
A television on a white cabinet showing a close-up of two eyes in red light; in front, a small table with headphones
Robbie Auspurger, Good boy — the video installation. Via Raiale. Photo: Ultrastudios.
Glass and ceramic vases and bottles stacked on the grey studio floor, two photographs on the wall
Angelo Iodice, I would prefer not to, 2024. Via Raiale. Photo: Ultrastudios.

People

Portrait of Gioia Di Girolamo
Photo: Ultrastudios

Gioia Di Girolamo

Artist, curator and creative director · president

Born in 1984, she lives and works in Pescara. She trained at IED in Milan. In 2012 she was among the founders of Ultrastudio.

As an artist she has exhibited at the Museo Michetti in Francavilla al Mare, the Cité des Arts in Paris, TAL Gallery in Cascais and MAH in Angra do Heroísmo, in the Azores. She has been in residence at Dimora Artica in Milan and at the Re_Act laboratory on the island of Terceira.

With Ultrastudio she curated, as part of a collective effort, more than ten years of exhibitions and residencies: that is where her curatorial eye was formed. Among her recent curatorial projects, Terrestre da YAG Garage e Amphibian, Paulo Arraiano's solo show at Spazio Iris. Since 2023 she has directed the visual arts of Diorama Festival.

gioia@ultrastudios.it · gioiadigirolamo.it

Our work

To begin: a session to bring things into focus

Half a day together, in our studio or at yours. We look at what exists, listen to what you imagine and, at the end, deliver a written page: who you are, what to say and in which voice, colours and references, where to begin and what to let go.

From €180, fully deducted from the quote if the project goes ahead. Book a session

Visual identity

The name, the colours, the typefaces: the way an enterprise presents itself on a sign, a package, a shop window. Where an identity is missing, we build it. Where it exists but time has made it inconsistent, we reassemble it and set down its rules, so that it stays recognisable.

Illustration and posters

Poster series for venues, festivals and seasons: a constant grid, an illustration that renews itself. It is repetition that makes a place recognisable.

Curation and creative direction

Exhibitions, festivals, cultural projects. We accompany a project, even for single days, whenever an overall view is needed: what to communicate, in what form and, above all, what to leave out.

Photography, video and content

We photograph what you make and the people who make it possible. Each month, where useful, we deliver a complete set of images, graphics and short vertical videos, with their texts.

We don't run your channels: we build their imagery.

Method

  1. A first conversation. Twenty minutes, free of charge. If we are not the right people, we will tell you straight away.
  2. A written quote. A fixed price, not by the hour, setting out what we will deliver, when, and what is not included.
  3. Half at the start, half on delivery. Work begins on receipt of the first half.
  4. Two rounds of revisions included. They are usually enough; should more be needed, you will know in advance.
  5. Delivery. The files are yours, in high resolution and in the formats you need.

Professional services are provided by Gioia Di Girolamo as a freelance professional, who issues her own invoices. Cultural projects, residencies and exhibitions are activities of Ultrastudios APS.

We have worked with

Alma Vibes · Borotalco.tv · Cantina Zaccagnini · Cosimetti · Diorama Festival · Giosport · Loasi · Marcel.Art · Nauta Sport · NeurodivergentLab · Ridente · SecondLife Auto · ZuVibes

Press

Il Sole 24 Ore · la Repubblica · Exibart · Artribune · ATP Diary · Inside Art

On the exhibitions and residencies in via Raiale.

For an idea that asks not to stay alone, the first step is an email.

Write to us

gioia@ultrastudios.it
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Where we are

Via Raiale 161
65128 Pescara

Programme

Exhibitions, residencies and talks.
The programme

The space

Space for photography and filming
Rates (PDF, Italian)

Ultrastudios APS · via Raiale 161, 65128 Pescara, Italy · Tax code 91147480684 · ULTRA*STUDIOS di Gioia Di Girolamo · VAT IT02405270683 · Privacy

Since 2012. Since 2026, also a studio.

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