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Martino Gamper: PostForma Depot
Nilufar Depot, The First Decade
Performance: 30 Septmber 2025
Open to the public: 2PM—5PM
From October 1, 2025
Monday–Saturday 10AM—7PM
Nilufar Depot, Viale Lancetti 34, Milan

2025 marks the tenth anniversary of Nilufar Depot: a decade of visions, experimentation, and exhibitions that have established the space on Viale Lancetti as an international reference point for design and visual arts.
To celebrate the occasion, Nilufar presents Nilufar Depot: The First Decade—a 100+ page book chronicling the Depot’s journey since its inception. Conceived as both a visual and narrative archive, the volume features previously unpublished and rare images, alongside a comprehensive overview of all exhibitions, retrospectives, and installations presented over the years.

To accompany the book launch, Nina Yashar has invited Martino Gamper to present a site-specific performance, conceived in direct dialogue with the architecture and spirit of Nilufar Depot. The space is imagined as a constantly evolving stage—capable of welcoming and renewing the language of contemporary design. For the occasion, Gamper—whose interdisciplinary practice combines material expertise with formal experimentation—will intervene on a selection of collectible design pieces from the gallery’s collection. His gesture will be radical and transformative, not destructive, with the aim of reinventing and reimagining the object, offering it a new destiny and identity.
Each piece will be reactivated in its vital function and opened to new formal and narrative interpretations. Working through a methodology rooted in improvisation and an intuitive response to form, Gamper employs acts of deconstruction, assembly, and recomposition. Each intervention becomes a reflection on the narrative and formal potential of the object, unfolding in a continuous dialogue between memory and transformation.
The performance will unfold in the atrium—the main hall of the Depot—and will be anchored by one of Gamper’s most intricate works: his Off Cut Tables, composed of thirteen individual tables. Among the most emblematic expressions of his practice, the project is built from reclaimed wood and explores a wide range of compositional possibilities, transforming leftover materials into furnishings of powerful visual and tactile presence.
Gamper’s participation holds strong symbolic value. In 2015, on the occasion of Nilufar Depot’s opening, he designed the site-specific setting for the inaugural dinner, involving over 150 seating elements. A decade later, his return marks a new chapter in the story of the space, reaffirming its commitment to an ongoing dialogue between design,
art, and experimentation.
During the performance, Martino Gamper intervenes on a curated selection of mid-century furniture pieces drawn from Nilufar’s collection. Among them: the Headboards Cabinet “Positano” by Ico Parisi, the “LT 29” bed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg (Italy, 1957), in walnut wood, and the Model 110 chairs by Ico Parisi (Italy, 1959), in walnut and velvet upholstery. The selection also includes a Low table by Fabricius & Kastholm (Denmark, 1960s), made of oak with a slate top and steel base; an Applique Lamp by Luigi Caccia Dominioni (Italy, 1960s), in brass, white ribbed glass, and red lacquered metal; and a swiveling Lamp by Franco Albini and Franca Helg (Italy, 1962). The works resulting from Gamper’s transformative intervention, distinguished by working with offcut plywood veneers from the Italian company Alpi, become part of the Depot’s evolving exhibition path, and will be on view to the public
starting October 1st.

Photographer: Filippo Pincolini