Giorgio Zeno Graf
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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
Education
2024 – 2026 (ongoing)
Master Art Education, Kunstpädagogik, ZHdK – Zurich 

2023
Master Fine Arts, ZHdK – Zurich 

2021
Bachelor Fine Arts, ZHdK – Zurich


Exhibitions 2026
La Rada – Monte Verità (upcoming)
La Regionale 2026 – Locarno

2025
Esoscheletro – Genestrerio

Oltre la Pietra, Matazz – Castelgrande, Bellinzona

2024
Caffè tra Artisti, December 2024 – Casa Azul, Gordola

Come una pietra che rotola – Spazio Fervida, Lugano

2023
Poetry for Revolutions – Istituto Svizzero (Rome)

Poetry for Revolutions – Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich)

Master Fine Arts Degree Show “Control” – Toni Areal, Zurich

Off grid – Material, Klingenstrasse 23, Zurich

Best of Offspace Flüelastrasse – Flüelastrasse, Zurich

2022   
Bissone Arte 22 – Bissone, Ticino

Genesi Creativa, le stanze dell’arte – M.A.X Museo, Chiasso

CALCI – Ai Molti Tesori, Via corso bello 5, Mendrisio

2021
Fineally – Allmendstrasse 95, Zurich
Biophilia, Coinciding circles – ALLDA, Wiedikon

2020
Mykorrhiza – Toni Areal, Zurich

2019
«How To:» – Flüelastrasse, Zurich
1:15 – Toni Areal, Zurich



Artistic collaboration
2025–2026 
Common land, Trickster-p



Curatorial experiences
2022 – 2026
Collettivo Calci – Mendrisio

04.2024 – 04.2025
Tra Luce e Forma, Raiffeisen Bank – Cham, Zug

2022 – 2023
Egg space, MFA, Toni Areal – Zurich



Prizes
2022
First prize - Le stanze dell’arte / Premio giovani artisti Genesi creativa – M.A.X Museo, Chiasso



Publications2020
It’s never closed – Publication

Weaving the tangled web – Online publication



Workshops & Residencies
2022
Awaken the sleeping giants, FIT festival – LAC Lugano, CH

2021
Residence in Centre of Polish Sculpture – Oronsko, Poland        





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