Giorgio Zeno Graf
CV

I work with sculpture, printing, drawing, and installation using reclaimed materials and everyday objects. My research focuses on disused materials and stories, exploring their ecological, historical, and symbolic connections. Through a process that intertwines materiality, gesture, and context, I develop an aesthetic linked to themes such as consumption, presence and absence, and transformation.

I won the First Prize at “Le stanze dell'arte – Premio giovani artisti Genesi creativa” at the M.A.X. Museo di Chiasso (2020) and have exhibited in group exhibitions at Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2023), Bissone Arte 22 (2022), La Regionale in Ticino (2026), Castelgrande in Bellinzona (2025), and Monte Verità with La Rada (2026).




  WorkYear
CRÖISC INCRÜSCIÀ
2026


PIANTONI2026

SUDARIO2025
CORPO A CORPO2025
CONSUMO MODULARE V2024
CONTRONATURA2024
CRÖISC
2023

GREBEL
2023

BOCION (SYMBIOTIC TERRITORY)
2023

TERRITORY
2023

HABIT II
2022

HABIT I
2022

CONSUMO MODULARE IV
2022

CONSUMO MODULARE III 2022
CONSUMO MODULARE II 2022
CONSUMO MODULARE I 2022
ALFALFA (MEDICAGO SATIVA) 2021
STILL LIFE serie
2020

UN PENSIERO TI SI ALLACCIA
2019

KÖRPERSPRACHE, KÖRPERBILD II
2019

ALFALFA (MEDICAGO SATIVA)
2021



2021
Egg tempera and oil paint on canvas, fir wood frame, small pockets with Medicago Sativa seeds.
Installation view: Fineally – Allmendstrasse 95, Zurich.

Alfalfa (Medicago Sativa) goes metres deep with its roots, in order to stir, shake and wake up time-hardened soils. It is food for the body and the mind, also capable of restoring nitrogen to our soil. Once cutted its roots will keep the soil permeable for what is to come.

Seeds (in bags) are something that always has potential, as something always possible that remains somehow unrealisable.





Pictures: Sebastian Lendenmann







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