Martino Gamper
Education
2000 | Royal College of Art |
Solo Exhibitions
2019 | ‘Hookaloti’, Michael Lett, Auckland |
2017 | ‘Tabula Rasa’, Museo del Risorgimento, Torino |
‘Round & Square’, Brompton Design District | |
‘Middle Chair’, Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow | |
‘100 Chairs in 100 Days’, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington | |
‘Screenshot: Martino Gamper and Brigitte Niedermair’, One Poultry, London (Project for Dedar) | |
2016 | ‘100 Chairs in 100 Days’, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne |
Anton Kern Gallery, New York (with Francis Upritchard) | |
2015 | ‘100 Chairs in 100 Days’, The MIMOCA Foundation, Marugame |
2014 | ‘In a State of Repair’, La Rinascente, Milan (with Serpentine Gallery, London) |
‘Chair Lift’, Showroom Moroso, Milan (with Peter McDonald) | |
‘Martino Gamper: design is a state of mind’, Touring exhibition, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2014); Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin (2015); Museion, Bolzano (2015) | |
2013 | ‘Tu casa, mi casa’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
‘100 Chairs in 100 Days’, Benaki Museum, Athens | |
2011 | ‘Condominium’, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin |
2008 | ‘Total Trattoria’, Aram Gallery, London |
Group Exhibitions
2020 | ‘Blue Jeans & Brown Clay’, Kate Macgarry, London |
Lévy Gorvy x Salon 94 Design, Miami | |
‘Under/Over w/ Plant Paper’, Marta, Los Angeles | |
‘Old Technology’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York | |
2019 | ‘SQUAT Los Angeles’, 830 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles (Curated by Nilfular Gallery, Milan) |
‘Legacy’, V&A Musuem, London | |
‘Masters of Disguise’, Seeds, London | |
‘Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong’, R & Company , New York | |
‘Social Seating’, Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale | |
‘New Glass Now’, Corning Museum of Glass, New York | |
‘An Accelerated Culture’, Friedman Benda, New York | |
‘Broken nature: design takes on human survival’, XXII Triennale di Milano, Milan | |
2018 | ‘Giles Round: The Director’, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield |
‘Painting and Resting’, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin | |
‘Take Me (I'm yours)’, The French Academy at Villa Medici | |
‘Design After Darwin: Adapted to Adaptability’, Palazzo Morosini, San Marco | |
‘U-Joints’, Plusdesign Gallery, Milan | |
‘Designers select designers - Aram gallery 15th anniversary show’, Aram Gallery, London | |
‘Open House’, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco | |
2017 | Kvalitář Gallery, Prague |
2016 | ‘16a Quadriennale D’Arte’, Palazzo delle Esposizioni , Rome |
‘Below Stairs’, Sir John Soane's Museum, London | |
‘Below Stairs’, Sir John Soane's Museum, London | |
2015 | ‘Transformers’, MAXXI, Rome |
‘British Art Show 8’, Touring exhibition, Leeds Art Gallery (2015 - 2016), Edinburgh (2016), Norwich (2016), Southampton (2016 - 2017) | |
2014 | ‘House Party with Dzek’, Kate Macgarry, London |
‘On the Devolution of Culture’, 83 Page Street, London | |
‘Edge of the Seat: The Artist’, Large Glass, London | |
‘Period Room’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | |
2013 | ‘Monacopolis’, Nouveau Musèe National de Monaco |
‘Jason Dodge/ Martino Gamper’, American Academy, Rome | |
2012 | ‘Metamorphosis: le collezioni Moroso fra design e arti visive’, Casa Cavazzini, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Udine, Udine |
‘A drawing while waiting for an idea’, Large Glass, London | |
‘Synesthesia’, M+B, Los Angeles | |
‘Bauhaus Live’, Aram Gallery, London | |
‘Scott Burton’, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome | |
‘Glow Rod Tanning with..’, Gio Marconi, Milan (with Kerstin Bratsch) | |
‘Material’, Salon 94 Freemans, New York | |
2011 | ‘The Feeling of Things’, FRAC, Ile - de - France Le Plateau, Paris |
‘Totem and Taboo’, Quartier21, Vienna | |
‘Gesamtkunstandwerk’, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington | |
‘Overlap; An Exhibition About Art and Design’, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen | |
‘Stealing the Senses’, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand | |
2010 | ‘SI- Sindrome Italiana’, Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
‘21x21. 21 artisti per il 21∞ secolo’, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino | |
2009 | ‘Ciao Milano!’, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin |
‘2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design’, Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt | |
‘Feierabend: Francis Upritchard, Martino Gamper, Karl Fritsch’, Kate Macgarry, London | |
2008 | ‘Nowhere/Now/Here’, Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial |
‘Undiszipliniert / Undisciplined’, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna | |
‘Manifesta 7’, Manifesta 7 Bolzano, Bolzano | |
‘The Flight of the Dodo’, Project Art Gallery, Dublin | |
‘Prototypes & Experiments’, Aram Gallery, London | |
2007 | ‘Wouldn't It Be Nice’, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva |
Projects
2020 | ‘Tutti Frutti’, Atelier Luma, Arles |
2017 | ‘Elevator’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
Curatorial Projects
2016 | ‘No Ordinary Love - Martino Gamper with Friends’, SEE••DS, London (A show curated by Martino Gamper in collaboration with Actant Visuelle ) |
Commissions
2020 | ‘Prada Hideaway’, Harrods, London (A site-specific pop up for Prada at Harrods) |
2019 | ‘London Design Festival’, Coal Drops Yard, London |
Valextra Flagship Store, Beijing | |
2018 | ‘Showroom table’, Valextra Venice |
Bibliography
Press
2016 | Egan, Maura: ‘At Home With Martino Gamper, Who Gives Unwanted Objects New Life as Furniture’, T Magazine, 11/02/2016 |
2014 | Sansom, Anna: ‘Between Two Chairs’, 03/2014 |
Vinson, Nick: ‘The Report: Home Sweet Home’, 07/01/2014 | |
Houseley, Laura: ‘Arts and Crafts, conflict and comfort’, 2014 | |
2013 | ‘Yo Me Lo Creo’, 06/2013 |
Cashdan, Marina: ‘Project Space’, 03/05/2013 | |
Bärnthaler, Thomas: ‘Das Kriegen Sie Allein Hin’, 22/03/2013 | |
‘Full Immersion’, 02/2013 | |
Wesle, Andreas: ‘The Great Mistake’, 02/2013 | |
Rebernjak, Rujana: ‘Martino Gamper: Hands with Glass’, 2013 | |
2012 | ‘Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard’, 12/2012 |
McGuirk, Justin: ‘Martino Gamper’, 07/2012 | |
Gopnik, Blake: ‘Your Home Will Look Like This’, 18/06/2012 | |
‘Designers It List’, 04/2012 | |
2011 | Antonelli, Paola: ‘Apres moi, le deluge’, 12/2011 |
Rawsthorn, Alice: ‘Culture’, 08/08/2011 | |
Coles, Alex: ‘Features - Designer interview: Martino Gamper’, 07/2011 | |
Gamper, Martino & Upritchard, Francis: ‘A Conversation Between Martino Gamper & Francis Upritchard’, 2011 | |
‘Design For the Future’, 2011 | |
Parrish, Patrick: ‘Martino Gamper’, 2011 | |
2010 | King, Emily: ‘Come Together’, 10/2010 |
‘Le Aventure Di Una Sedia’, 04/2010 | |
Roux, Caroline: ‘A Polygot Design Whiz’, 2010 | |
2009 | ‘Martino Gamper puts 5 questions to Francis Upritchard’, 10/2009 |
King, Emily: ‘The Perfect Misfit’, 03/2009 | |
2008 | ‘I am Still Alive’, 2008 |
Exhibition Reviews
2019 | Pownall, Augusta: ‘Martino Gamper creates false facade for miniature Disco Carbona’, Dezeen, 20/09/2019 |
Wong, Henry: ‘How Martino Gamper brought an “ironic” disco to Coal Drops Yard’, Design Week, 17/09/2019 | |
2016 | Bertoli, Rosa: ‘Martino Gamper and friends collaborate on ceramics that are anything but ordinary’, Wallpaper*, 30/09/2016 |
Publications
2016 | Colin, Anna & Lee, Lydia: The British Art Show 8, 'Andreas Büttner, Nicolas Deshayes, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Charlotte Prodger in conversation with François Quintin, Hayward Publishing, London |
2012 | Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways, Dent-De-Leone, London |
2009 | Piccolo Volume 2, Dent-De-Leone, London |
Trattoria Handbook, Dent-De-Leone, London | |
2004 | and corners, Dent-De-Leone, London |