Giorgio Zeno Graf
CV

works with sculpture, printmaking and installation using recycled materials and everyday objects. His research focuses on disused materials, exploring their ecological, historical and symbolic connections. Through a process that intertwines materiality, gesture and context, he develops new collective narratives linked to themes such as consumption, urban occupation and transformation.

He won the First Prize in “Le stanze dell'arte – Premio giovani artisti Genesi creativa” at the M.A.X. Museo di Chiasso (2020), and has exhibited in group exhibitions at Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2023), Bissone Arte 22 (2022), Spazio Fervida, Lugano (2024), and Castelgrande, Bellinzona (2025).




  WorkYear
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

BOCION (SYMBIOTIC TERRITORY)2023


2023
Screen print on jute, wool from Ticino, upcycled wood, metal rings, rope and zipper.
290 × 190 × 40 cm
Installation view: Bellinzona Castelgrande, Oltre la Pietra, Matazz

Bocion (symbiotic territory) takes inspiration from the use of large stones in the Valle Bavona — boulders carried by landslides or left by ancient glaciers, quietly adapted for shelter, storage, terraced gardens, or simple constructions.

These interventions, guided by necessity, integrate with the landscape without imposing upon it. The work reflects a way of inhabiting rooted in attention and coherence — where transformation occurs not through force, but through alignment with what already exists. Part of a rhizomatic constellation of materials, tools, and gestures, Bocion embodies a practice of care within constraint.




View of the back of the sculpture, featuring an upcycled zipper through which the sculpture is filled.



Pictures: Valentina Poncioni



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