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MARTINELLI VENEZIA

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MARTINELLI VENEZIA is a design studio based in Milan and Palermo, founded in 2015 by the architects Carolina Martinelli and Vittorio Venezia. The studio deals with furniture design, exhibition design, architecture and interior design, exploring issues concerning the relationship between tradition and local culture, the material properties and the technical possibilities of manufacturing processes. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Musée du Louvre in Paris, MAXXI Rome and Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024

Carissimo Pinocchio, curated by Giulio Iacchetti, Casa Italiana, Seattle (USA)

Carissimo Pinocchio, curated by Giulio Iacchetti, Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco (USA)

Il gusto del design italiano, curated by Elisabetta Pisu, flagship store Bonaldo, Tashkent (Uzbekistan)

La giacca dei designer, curated by Lorenzo Palmeri and Mario Scairato, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy (Italy)

Italian Design Day, Conference, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bratislava (Slovakia)

Passagen interior design, OTO Chair. Un esempio di design circolare, curated by Federica Sala, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne (Germany)

2023

Carissimo Pinocchio, curated by Giulio Iacchetti, ADI Design Museum, Milan (Italy)

Anime a colori, curated by Giulio Iacchetti, Lorenzo Palmeri and Matteo Ragni, ADI Design Museum, Milan (Italy)

2022

Nucré: Dove la terra incontra il cielo, curated by Giulia Bortoluzzi, Trullo Rubina (C. da Menzella), Ceglie Messapica (Italy)

Forme del bere / Forms of drinking, curated by Elisa Testori, InGalleria / Punta Conterie Art Gallery, Murano (Italy)

2021​

Miart 2021, Artopia Gallery, Milan (Italy)

Altri echi, curated by Rita Urso and Arechi Invernizzi, Artopia Gallery, Milan (Italy)

Super superfici - The Spirit of Memphis (reloaded), curated by Giulio Iacchetti and Matteo Ragni, ADI Design Museum, Milan (Italy)

2019

Porto Design Biennale, Frontiere — expressões de design contemporâneo, curated by Maria Milano and Lucio Magri, Casa do Design Matosinhos, Porto (Portugal)

Storie. Design italiano, curated by Chiara Alessi, Triennale Design Museum, Milan (Italy)

Fuori Salone 2019, Rossana Orlandi Gallery, Milan (Italy)

Mediterranean grafts, for Lithea le forme sensibili della pietra, Palazzo Litta, Milan (Italy)

Edit Napoli 2019, Innesti mediterranei, for Lithea le forme sensibili della pietra, Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore Napoli (Italy)

2018

Shanghai-Milan New talent design show 2018, curated by Davide Conti, National Exhibition Shanghai (China)

Manifesta 12, Officine Calderai, Palermo (Italy)

Mostra XXV Compasso d’Oro ADI, Castello Sforzesco, Cortile della Rocchetta, Milan (Italy)

Send me the future, curated by Stefano Maffei e Marcello Pirovano, Subalterno1 gallery, Milan (Italy)

100×100 Achille, Chiara Alessi e Domitilla Dardi, Fondazione Achille Castiglioni, Milan (Italy)

Designers select designers, curated by Zeev Aram and Riya Patel, The Aram Gallery, London (United Kingdom)

2017

Legami Anonimi, curated by Lorenzo Palmeri, Triennale di Milano (Italy)

Tracce, curated by Mario Scairato, Spazio Paestum, Paestum (Italy)

The Italian affair, curated by Carolina Pasti, Casa dei Grifi, Milan (Italy)

SaloneSatellite Collezione 20 anni, Salone del Mobile, RHO Fiera, Milan (Italy)

SaloneSatellite. 20 anni di nuova creatività, curaded by Beppe Finessi, Fabbrica del vapore, Milan (Italy)

Miart 2017, Super Oggetti, curated by Michela Bassanelli for Colleoni Arte, Milan (Italy)

Italian design act Folk&role, curated by Alexandra Georgescu, Moravská galerie, Brno (Czechia)

2016

Miart 2016, curated by Massimo Lunardon, Milan (Italy)

Fuori Salone 2016, Rossana Orlandi Gallery, Milan (Italy)

Slow, curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein, Schloss Hollenegg (Austria)

Design competition – Creatività3, Spazio Oikos, Torre Velasca, Milan (Italy)

Atom: The Cutting Factory, curated by Giulio Iacchetti and Francesca Molteni, Triennale di Milano (Italy)

2015

Officine Calderai, Salone Satellite, RHO Fiera Milan (Italy)

Pinetum 02 – Innesti, curated by Bruno Boretti, Silvia Fabbroni, Laura Moretti, Guido Pellegrini, Villa Gaeta Pinetum, Moncioni, Montevarchi (Italy)

Ego, Galleria SXX, Palermo (Italy)

2014

Archaeology of the future, curated by Gianni Pedone and Manfredi Beninati, Associazione Flavio Beninati, Palermo (Italy)

2013

S/coordinato, Institut culturel italien de Paris (France)

Car.Pe.Pia.Ve, S/coordinato, Associazione Flavio Beninati, Palermo (Italy)

Design nel pallone, curated by Francesca Molteni and Giulio Iacchetti, Sao Paulo (Brazil)

2012

Dream Factories: people, ideas and paradoxes of italian design, curated by Alberto Alessi, Triennale Design Museum, Milan (Italy)

Shape your life! Progetto Alcantara®, curated by Giulio Cappellini and Domitilla Dardi, MAXXI, Rome (Italy)

2010

Łódź Design festival 2010, Crumple Zone, curated by Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Łódź (Poland)

2008

Prime Cup 01, Triennale Design Museum, Milan (Italy)

Prix Émile Hermès, Louvre, Paris (France)

SELECTED AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
 

2019 | Il rame e la casa, honorable mention

2016 | Design Competition Creatività, 1st place

2015 | Design Report Award, 1st place

2013 | Art residence Les Promesses de l’art, Institut culturel italien de Paris (France)
2013 | Cristalplant, 1st place

2012 | Promosedia, 2nd place

2008 | Grand Prix Emile Hermes, 1st place

2007 | Prime Cup prize, Triennale di Milano, Milan (Italy)

2006 | Lucky Strike Junior Award, 1st place

2004 | Concorso Bombay Sapphire, 1st place

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