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

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 Regionale 2026 – Locarno (upcoming)

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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