Biography

Biography

Sylvester Zagato (b. 1997, Geneva)
is a Swiss artist based in Berlin, Germany.

Back in Switzerland, he studied horticulture. Drawn to growth, form, and the quiet intelligence of nature, his early fascination turned into a way of seeing the world. Not just as subject matter, but as art itself. Self-generating, rhythmic, and imperfectly precise. During this period, he began painting and developed a visual language rooted in emotion, repetition, and abstraction.

After relocating to Berlin, Zagato expanded his practice into sculpture, exploring ideas of connection and interaction through resin-based forms.

Statement

I work across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, exploring the body as both a physical presence and a site shaped by psychological and social forces. Repetition is central to my practice: gestures, surfaces, forms, and bodily fragments accumulate until they become larger structures. Through material and spatial experiences, I examine anxiety, obsession, sacrifice, belonging, and exclusion. Rather than illustrating these subjects directly, I use texture, density, repetition, and the physical qualities of materials to consider how bodies carry experience and are shaped, organized, or transformed by the systems surrounding them.