Azuma Makoto

Azuma Makoto is a Japanese flower artist and the founder of AMKK (Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyusho), the experimental botanical collective he established in 2009. The studio’s activity is consistent in one aim: to increase the existential value of flowers by finding the most mysterious figures that only plants possess and converting them into artistic expression.

Makoto has worked in flowers since 2002 and owns the haute-couture floral shop JARDINS des FLEURS in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. From 2005 he began working on forms that cannot be held inside the framework of floral art, from the monumental Botanical Sculpture to the microscopic world revealed by X-ray. Projects such as Frozen Flowers, Paludarium and Square Nature have been shown in museums, galleries and public spaces worldwide.