Draft:Serhii Makhno

Serhii Makhno (Ukrainian: Сергій Михайлович Махно) is a Ukrainian architect, designer, and artist. He is the founder of MAKHNO Studio. His designs have been exhibited at Salone del Mobile in Milan, Paris Design Week , Dutch Design Week , Galerie 5 in Singapore , Gallery G-77 in Kyoto , and Les Ateliers Courbet Gallery in New York.

Serhii Makhno is a jury member of the Dezeen Awards, International Architecture & Design Awards , Architecture MasterPrize , and others.

Early life and education
Serhii Makhno was born on May 21, 1981, in Kyiv into a family of workers. He has two younger brothers. He graduated from the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture with a degree in Architectural Environment Design.

Career
After graduating in 2003, Serhii Makhno founded MAKHNO Studio, a multidisciplinary firm in architecture , interior design , and product design.

Architecture & Design

The studio works in a style that combines Ukrainian authenticity, contemporary art, naturalness, and futurism.

One of the main principles of the studio is to combine classical elements with modern ideas, using traditional crafts and techniques, but in a new context.

During this time, MAKHNO Studio has won such global architectural awards as The Architecture MasterPrize , IIDA Awards , Restaurant & Bar Design Awards , SBID Awards , and others. In particular, the SHKRUB project won several prestigious architectural awards simultaneously in 2020 and 2021.

Art

At the same time as the architecture and design studio, there is a ceramics workshop. Across mediums, Makhno’s work embodies the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic and philosophy.

Serhii Makhno and his team create furniture, lighting, tiles, and decor. In 2017, he received the international Red Dot Design Award for his ceramic tiles, and in 2024 - for innovative blocks made of "live" clay. Also, in 2021, the KHMARA ceramic lamp received the Grand Prix at the Big See Interior Design Awards and an award from the Interior Design Magazine Awards.

In 2017, the studio presented the project "Transformation. Silence" at Paris Design Week and the same year at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In January 2019, the studio took part in Maison&Objet as part of the Ukrainian collective stand with the “Ukrsavana” project.

In 2019, Serhii and his studio presented the “Inside. Out” project at their 100-meter-long stand at iSaloni.Salone del Mobile.Milano. Euroluce. The composition of ceramic furniture and lamps was among the main trends of the exhibition according to ArchDaily.

In 2020, the MAKHNO Art Foundation was created to launch a new wave of Ukrainian art.

In 2022, he released his first NFT collection of ceramic art, META DIDO. Digital tokens reimagine a series of ceramic zoomorphic sculptures created and released in 2019 under "Dido".

In November 2023, ZEMLYA's handmade ceramic furniture and decor collection was exhibited at Les Ateliers Courbet in New York, USA.

Exhibitions

 * 2017 – Paris Design Week in Paris, France.
 * 2017 – Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
 * 2019 – Maison&Objet in Paris, France.
 * 2019 – Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy.
 * 2021 – Expo 2020 Dubai in Dubai, UAE.
 * 2023 – Gallery G-77 in Kyoto, Japan.
 * 2023 – Les Ateliers Courbet in New York, USA.
 * 2024 – Galerie 5, International Day of Light in Singapore.