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Biography
- 1971
Born in Merano, Italy
Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2018
Take Me (I'm yours’), The French Academy at Villa Medici AlpiNN restaurant, Museum for Mountain Photography, Ski Resort Kronplatz, Italy
- 2017
Tabula Rasa, Museo del Risorgimento, Torino, Italy
Round & Square, Brompton Design District
Middle Chair, Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland
100 Chairs in 100 Days, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Screenshot: Martino Gamper and Brigitte Niedermair, One Poultry, London, United Kingdom (Project for Dedar)
- 2016
Francis Upritchard and Martino Gamper, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
- 2015
British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
Transformers, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
100 Chairs in 100 Days, The MIMOCA Foundation, Marugame, Japan
- 2014
Chair Lift, Showroom Moroso, Milan, Italy
In a State of Repair, La Rinascente, Milan, Italy (with Serpentine Gallery, London)
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)
Tu casa, mi casa, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow
100 Chairs in 100 Days, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
- 2011
Condominium, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
- 2009
U.F.O Art & Design, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2008
Total Trattoria, Aram Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Receiving, Wright, Chicago, IL
- 2007
Confronting the Chair, Design Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 2006
Chairs for Walking-Chair, Walking-Chair Gallery, Vienna, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2018
Joints, Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, Italy
Designers select designers - Aram gallery 15th anniversary show, Aram Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Open House, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2017
Kvalitář Gallery, Prague
- 2016
16a Quadriennale D’Arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Below Stairs, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 2015
Transformers, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
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, United Kingdom
On the Devolution of Culture, 83 Page Street, London, United Kingdom
Edge of the Seat: The Artist, Large Glass, London, United Kingdom
Period Room, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
- 2013
Monacopolis, Nouveau Musèe National de Monaco
Jason Dodge/ Martino Gamper, American Academy, Rome
ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now, ICA, The Old Selfridges Hotel, London, United Kingdom
- 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, United Kingdom
Scott Burton, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
Glow Rod Tanning with.., Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Material, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY
D'Apres Giorgio, Casa Museo Giorgio de Chirico, Rome, Italy
Bench Years, V&A Musuem, London (London Design Festival commission)
Le Sentiment des Choses/ The Feeling of Thing, Le Plateau, Paris, France
- 2011
The Feeling of Things, FRAC, Ile - de - France Le Plateau, Paris, France
Totem and Taboo, Quartier21, Vienna, Austria
Gesamtkunstandwerk, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, new Xealand
Overlap; An Exhibition About Art and Design, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Stealing the Senses, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand
Atomi, Nilufar Gallery, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
Glass Scene, Villa Noailles, Hyres
KnowHow, Campbell Works, London, United Kingdom
MetaDomestic, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria
New Olds, Design Museum, Holen
Reason Design Emotion, Beijing International Design Triennial, Beijing, China
- 2010
SI- Sindrome Italiana, Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
21x21. 21 artisi per il 21 secolo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino, Italy
100 Chairs en 100 Jours de 100 Mani, Englise Saint-Pierre, Site Le Corbusier de Firminy
Book Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, England
Design By Performance, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Get It Louder, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, British Council, London
Keep Your Seat, GAMeC, Turin, Italy
Totem and Taboo, Sant, Milan, Italy
- 2009
Ciao Milano!, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt, Belgium
Feierabend: Francis Upritchard, Martino Gamper, Karl Fritsch, Kate Macgarry, London, United Kingdom
Boule to Braid curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Chair Arch, V&A Musuem, London, United Kingdom
Gio Ponti Translated, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, Italy
Sitting and Seating, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, Italy
Stanze e Camere + 100 Chairs in 100 Days, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy
Super Contemporary, Design Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 2008
Nowhere/Now/Here, Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Undiszipliniert / Undisciplined, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Manifesta 7, Manifesta 7 Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
The Flight of the Dodo, Project Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Prototypes & Experiments, Aram Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Designer of the Year, Design Museum, London, United Kingdom
Mollino-Gamper, Frieze Art Fair, London (With Salon 94)
Salone del Mobile, Nilufar Gallery, Milan, Italy
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2007
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
A 100 chairs in 100 Days, 5 Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom
Cose, Galleria Prisma, Bolzano
Getting it Louder, Guangzhou, China (British Council traveling exhibition)
Gio Ponti Translate by Martino Gamper, Nilufar Gallery, Milan
If Gio Only Knew, Design Miami/ Basel, Basel (design performance)
- 2006
Miss-Fit, Freiraum Museumsquartier, Vienna
No Entry, Chain, Chain, Chain Gallery, London (with Ron Arad)
Talents, Ambiente Messe, Frankfurt
Tigenes, National Gallery, Oslo
- 2005
Book Corner at Frieze Lounge exhibition design, Frieze Art Fair, London
Zoo Art Fair, London (in collaboration with M+R Gallery)
Britain Loves Fashion, Chongqing, China (British Council traveling exhibition)
- 1990
Martino, Rainer, Maki & Kajsa say: Guten Apetitt, Design Mai, Berlin
Press
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March 15,
2018Architectural Digest -
February 11,
2016T Magazine -
February 3,
2016Time Out New York -
January 20,
2016Time Out New YorkCritic’s Pick: Francis Upritchard and Martino Gamper