Bolon at Milan Design Week 2026
Bolon x Martino Gamper / Capsule Plaza / April 20–26
For Milan Design Week 2026, we welcome you to BOLON STUDIO, a dedicated space for creative practice, where we are honoured to present an artistic collaboration with Martino Gamper.
In the exhibition RIQUADRO, he explores the idea that functional design and conceptual art are not opposing disciplines, but intertwined practices. In this collaboration, it means creating something that operates fully as a product, durable, manufacturable, usable, while simultaneously existing as a conceptual statement.
Martino has a multi-disciplinary education. He began as an apprentice for a furniture maker before studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Later, He completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in London. This blend of craft sensitivity and artistic inquiry laid the foundation for a lifelong fusion of thinking and doing, and a belief that objects are not only functional but also carriers of ideas, stories, and spatial experience.
When creating RIQUADRO, he didn’t begin by asking whether it should be art or design – but by asking how it could exist meaningfully in the space. Flooring is one of the largest surfaces in any space, yet it is rarely acknowledged. With RIQUADRO, he reverses that hierarchy, making the floor a field of attention without losing its purpose.
These artworks are not meant to remain distant or untouchable. We invite you to participate – to touch, walk on, and experience the material. In this continuous interaction between object and user, design becomes lived art, and art becomes part of daily ritual. That continuity between idea and function is where art truly exists.
Welcome to BOLON STUDIO to experience:
RIQUADRO by Martino Gamper
Milan Design Week
Capsule Plaza, Via Achille Maiocchi, 8
20 April: 6 PM – 9 PM
21–26 April: 10 AM – 8 PM
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