GIORGIO VAN MEERWIJK

Artissima Turin

31 Oct - 2 Nov, 2025

Pipeline is delighted to announce our participation in Artissima Turin with a solo booth by Giorgio Van Meerwijk.

Through masterfully hand-carved sculpture and photography, Giorgio Van Meerwijk creates visual representations of historical uses of plants in folklore and medicine - considering its many uses across time and continued relevance today. He is interested in the effect of the spread of Christianity on local populations and cultures in south-western Europe, and the relationship between their folklore, medicine and religion. His work seeks to contradict in shape and texture, feeling at once natural and artificial, to conjure a feeling of the unknown.

Throughout his recent residency at The British School of Rome, Van Meerwijk studied The Doctrine of Signatures, an ancient theory which states that a herb resembling a part of the body can be used to treat ailments of this body part. The work presented at Artissima references this doctrine and looks at how it represent the history of St John’s wort through contemporary sculpture.

Giorgio van Meerwijk (b. 1998, Toulouse, France) lives and works between Paris and London. He completed his BA at the Goldsmiths College, London (2020) and MA at The Slade School of Fine Art, London (2022). He was selected for New Contemporaries in 2021 and the Ingram Prize in 2023. Recent group exhibitions include Musee Bousset, France (2025); Galerie Continua, Italy (2025); Greenfield Project Space, UK (2024); LAMB Gallery, UK (2024); Pipeline at TERRA, France (2023); Pipeline, UK (2023); Scoppio, Italy (2022). Van Meerwijk was the recipient of the New Contemporaries Research residency at the British School at Rome in 2023 and is currently a resident artist at Artagon Pantin in Paris.