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We are pleased to announce that Eugster || Belgrade will present Vuk Ćuk at The Armory Show, held in Javits Center, New York City, from 8th to 10th September this year, 2023.

Vuk Ćuk’s current work examines the era of post-pandemic anxiety, which extends to predictions and speculations on the ongoing economic crisis. This subject has been central to Vuk Ćuk’s practice since the beginning of 2020, when he started observing the global fascination with technological advancements that follow capitalist trends. Following the circulation of data, objects, values, money, viruses and opinions, the artist invites us to re-evaluate how and where our attention spans.
The new series of paintings will remind us of some of the bizarre consequences of human activity, as well as the ways in which “nature retaliates”, as the media often likes to remind us. The dreadful idea of nature that is vindictive and unforgiving threads through the narrative behind these works, reminding us, however, that this view is inherently selfish and essentially human. With that in mind, Ćuk creates an environment in which one cannot be sure whether the hybrid entities on display are referring to something “man-made”, something unnatural, or in fact very natural — belonging to a world of simultaneous hyper-production and emptiness.

The booth is a combination of wallpaper, paintings, diamond paintings, and collage.

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, 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 Velisekovic fund award, Taiyuan Sculpture Symposium award. He is contributing Art Editor at DSCENE Magazine.