Vuk Ćuk

Vuk Ćuk (1987) is a visual artist based in Belgrade, Serbia. He is interested in how capitalist logic, trends and technology shape both the human and natural world, examining new ways of living in the contemporary society. He works across various media, such as sculpture (kinetic and static), installations, drawing, digital art, video and painting. His work was shown at Belgrade Biennale 2021, curated by CURA’s Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, Sequence Art Festival, Marshall House in Reykjavik, Iceland (2019), 57th Belgrade Biennale curated by Gunnar and Danielle Kvaran, Belgrade, Serbia (2018), China Art Museum in Shanghai (2017), Sugarcube Festival in New York (2016) and Taiyuan Sculpture Symposium, Taiyuan, China (2016). Ćuk has had solo shows in Belgrade with gallery ZVONO several times, The Armory Show in New York City (2023), EIKON Schauraum, Q21, MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (2023), Automat Artspace in Saarbrucken (2022), Eugster ll Belgrade (2020), Ljubljana with Ravnikar gallery (2019), as well as at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris (2018). He teaches at Belgrade’s University of Art (Faculty of Applied Arts) and is a recipient of MAK Museum Vienna’s Recognition Award, Vladimir Velickovic fund award, Taiyuan Sculpture Symposium award. He is contributing Art Editor at DSCENE Magazine.

www.vukcuk.com

SOLO SHOWS

2024	NADA Miami, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, United States
2023	The Armory Show, Javits Center, New York City, United States EVERYTHING, EIKON Schauraum, Q21, Vienna, Austria
2022	Desert Hideaway, curated by Timo Poeppel, Automat, Saarbrücken, Germany
2020	WE HAVE LA AT HOME, Eugster \|\| Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia DANUBE DIALOGUES, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019	A WHOLE NEW WORLD, Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia A WHOLE NEW WORLD, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia METAFORMS:dual reference, Gallery Noerballe, Herning, Denmark Aesthetic Systems NBK, National Library, Krusevac, Serbia
2018	Les systemes esthetiques, Serbian Cultural Center, Paris, France Aesthetic Systems, Gallery Norballe, Augustenborg, Denmark Aesthetic Systems, Gallery Norballe, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017	Impossible Perspectives, Kula Nebojša, Belgrade, Serbia Impossible Perspectives, Galerija Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia
2016	Garden of Eden, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia Imposible Perspectives, Gallery Norballe, Augustenbourg, Denmark
2015	Plastic ZOO, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia GLITCH Building, Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2013	GRAND HALL, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia MOONWALKING, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

GROUP SHOWS

2024	Selling Out, Midas x ETC magazine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023	Stranger Danger, Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia Day before tomorrow, Eugster \|\| Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2022	Art Body Art, Suluv gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia Sekvence Savremenosti, Viline Vode gallery, Belgrade, Serbia Liste Art Fair, Eugster \|\| Belgrade, Basel, Switzerland Liste Showtime, online edition
2021	OCTOBER SALON – Belgrade Biennale, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia Ečka Symposium, Contemporary Art Gallery, Zrenjanin, Serbia
2020	Nadežda Petrović Memorial – Čačak, Serbia
2019	A message to Iceland, Marshal House, Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland 12/2, Contemporary Art Gallery, Niš, Serbia SMIC-small moving form, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia AIR4, Ravnikar gallery space, Ljubljana, Slovenia NEW ACQUISITIONS, Kulturni centar, Pančevo, Serbia Art Collection Sumatovacka, Nadežda Petrović Gallery, Čačak, Serbia
2018	October salon (Belgrade Biennale), Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia Pancevo Biennale, National Museum, Pančevo, Serbia November salon, National Museum, Kraljevo, Serbia AIR4, Ravnikar gallery space, Ljubljana, Slovenia Cacak Annual Exhibition, Cultural center, Čačak, Serbia
2017	Voyage: A journey through Serbian Contemporary Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China COMPUTERWELT, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia
2016	Face to Face: Blind Date, Sugarcube Festival, New York, United States Taiyuan Sculpture Symposium, Taiyuan, China Art Copenhagen, Galleriy Norballe Stand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015	Zvono Projects, KV Gastezimmer, Stuttgart, Germany Art Copenhagen, Gallery Noerballe, Copenhagen, Denmark Biennal of independent Art, Kino Siska, Ljubljana, Slovenia Kondenzator, G12HUB, Belgrade, Serbia 20 years of Haos gallery, Gallery Haos, Belgrade, Serbia
2014	Body 4, Art space Politika, Belgrade, Serbia Spring Salon, Pavilion of Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade, Serbia The Institute for the Development of Emerging Art (IDEA), Copenhagen, Denmark Art Copenhagen, Gallery Noerballe, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013	Nord Art, Budelsdorf, Germany NISART Foundation, Nis, Belgrade, Serbia Biennale of Students Drawing, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia Augustiana, Gallery Noerballe, Augustenburg, Denmark Ghouls of Savamala, Mixer Festival, Belgrade, Serbia Winners of the Vladimir Velickovic Fund Award, Haos Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2012	TERRA, Sculptors Symposium, Public space, Kikinda, Belgrade, Serbia HAOS Gallery, Drawing exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia Students Cultural Centre, S.U.N.D. , Belgrade, Serbia
2011	Body 2, Gallery Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia Project ABoT, MAK Museum, Vienna / MGLC, Ljubljana / UPM, Prague, Czech Republic

AWARDS 

2021	Recognition Award, MAK Museum, Vienna Award for Drawing, Vladimir Velickovic Fund Award “Miodrag Vujacic Mirski” for painting Award for Sculpture, Taiyuan Sculpture Symposium

COLLECTIONS 

2021	National Library, Kruševac, Serbia Cultural Center of Pancevo, Pančevo, Serbia The Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Books Collection, MOMA Library, New York, United States Sumatovacka Collection, Belgrade, Serbia Radix Collection, Belgrade, Serbia

PUBLIC COMMISIONS 

2019	10 objects at National Library, Kruševac, Serbia
2017	Stained glass at National Museum in Kruševac, Serbia
2016	Mural at Kino Siska, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015	Mural at Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2013	Mural at Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria