StudioMDA

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studioMDA
Company typePrivate company
IndustryDesign
Headquarters Manhattan, New York
Key people
Markus Dochantschi,
Number of employees
18
Website studiomda.com

studioMDA is a multidisciplinary design firm, based in New York and founded in 2002 by Markus Dochantschi. studioMDA has worked extensively across the United States (including: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont, Alaska, Florida and California), and internationally in countries such as Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Germany, Peru, Chile, Cambodia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Turkey and Malawi.

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studioMDA's work includes high-end and affordable residential, cultural, commercial, institutional, mixed-use, and design competitions. Throughout the last twenty years, the studio has designed and built more than thirty art galleries and over two hundred art booths and exhibitions. Working extensively with renowned art collectors, artists and galleries studioMDA has created both innovative and provocative gallery and exhibition spaces.

studioMDA works at multiple scales, from product design to urban planning, and collaborates with a wide range of arts, engineers and construction professionals from the very beginning of each project. Within this context, the developed design language can become layered into micro and macro scales, balancing from the smallest detail to the urban fabric. Currently, the office is expanding its portfolio with Nino Mier Gallery, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Lio Malca Gallery, a private art museum in Thailand, and the new Center for Advanced Mobility in Aachen, Germany.

Selected Projects

Completed

Cultural

Residential

  • 2021 Waverly Avenue Residence, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2021 Upper East Side Townhouse, New York
  • 2020 Water's Edge Residence, New York
  • 2020 Watertower Penthouse, New York
  • 2020 Franklin St. Residences and Gallery, New York
  • 2020 West Village Carriage House, New York
  • 2018 East 78th Street Townhouse, New York
  • 2018 Pool Pavilion, Bridgehampton, New York
  • 2018 Southampton Residence, Long Island, New York
  • 2018 Sagaponack Beach House II, Long Island, New York
  • 2017 East 71st Street Townhouse, New York
  • 2014 Sur Lago Residence, Tuxedo Park, New York
  • 2014 UES Townhouse, New York
  • 2014 Fort Greene Townhouse, Brooklyn, New York
  • 2014 Fifth Avenue Penthouse, New York
  • 2013 West Village Carriage House, New York
  • 2013 137 Franklin Street, New York [15]
  • 2012 Detiger Loft, New York [16] [17] [18] [19]
  • 2012 Sagaponack Barn, Sagaponack, New York
  • 2009 Tuxedo Park Residence, New York
  • 2009 Showtime House, New York
  • 2008 Anchorage Residence, Alaska
  • 2007 Stockholm Penthouse, Sweden
  • 2007 740 Park Avenue, New York
  • 2007 Noho Loft, New York, NY
  • 2007 Greenwich Street Residence, New York
  • 2007 Governor’s Road Residence, Bronxville
  • 2007 Park Avenue Penthouse, New York,
  • 2006 Maplewood Residence, New Jersey
  • 2006 Chappaqua Residence, Chappaqua, New York
  • 2006 Central Park West Residence, New York
  • 2005 Chile Beach House, Chile
  • 2005 Lima Beach House, Lima, Peru
  • 2005 Bronxville Residence, Bronxville, New York

Institutional

Commercial

Exhibitions

Art Fairs

  • Independent Art Fair, Spring Studio, New York (2023)
  • Independent 20th Century Art Fair, New York (2022)
  • 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Masterplan, New York

David Nolan Gallery, NY

Dirimart Gallery Istanbul

Helly Nahmad (New York art collector), NY

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art

Paul Kasmin Gallery, NY

Nahmad Contemporary, NY

  • FIAC /Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Paris (2014-2019,2021)
  • Frieze Art Fair, London (2017,2019,2021)
  • Independent Art Fair (2022)
  • Paris+ Art Basel (2022)

Richard Taittinger, NY

Malborough Gallery, NY

Anton Kern, NY

Van de Weghe, New York

Johyun Gallery, South Korea

Hammer Galleries, New York

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, NY

Fine Sound Group

  • Munich High End (2015)

Gary Nader Art Center, New York

  • Art Rio (2016)

Conceptual

In Progress

Cultural

  • Alexander Gray, New York
  • Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
  • Andrew Schoelkopf Gallery, New York

Commercial

  • Ping Pod Fort Lee, New York
  • Ping Pod Lexington, New York

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