VUK ĆUK
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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 and painting. His work was shown at 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 Scultpure Symposium, Taiyuan, China (2016). His new body of work will also be part of the next Belgrade Biennale in 2021, curated by CURA's Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin. Ćuk has had solo shows in Belgrade with gallery ZVONO several times and in 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. In 2019, he assisted the artist Dorde Ozbolt with developing his solo show for the Serbian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

​EDUCATION
Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade – Painting
University of the Applied Arts, Vienna – Painting

SOLO SHOWS
2020 
Danube Dialogues, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad
We have LA at home, Eugster ll Belgrade
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
Aesthetic Systems, Gallery Norballe, Augustenborg
Aesthetic Systems, Gallery Norballe, Copenhagen
2017
Impossible Perspectives, Kula Nebojša, Beograd
Impossible Perspectives, Galerija Zvono, Beograd
2016
Garden of Eden, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade
Imposible Perspectives, Gallery Norballe, Augustenbourg, Denmark
2015
Plastic ZOO, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade
GLITCH Building, Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade
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2013
GRAND HALL, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade
MOONWALKING, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna

GROUP SHOWS
2020
Danube Dialogues, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad
Nadežda Petrović Memorial, Čačak
2019
Sequence Art Festival - "A MESSAGE TO ICELAND", Marshall House, Reykjavik
12/2, Contemporary Art Gallery, Niš
SMIC-small moving form, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad
AIR4, Ravnikar gallery space, Ljubljana
NOVE AKVIZICIJE, Kulturni centar, Pancevo
Art Collection Sumatovacka, Nadezda Petrovic Gallery, Cacak
2018
October salon, Belgrade city Museum, Belgrade
Pancevo Biennal, National Museum, Pancevo
November salon, National Museum, Krusevac
AIR4, Ravnikar gallery space, Ljubljana
Cacak Annual Exhibition, Cultural ceter , Cacak

2017
Voyage: A journey trough Serbian Contemporary Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai 
COMPUTERWELD, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade
 2016
Face to Face: Blind Date, Sugarcube Festival, New York
Taiyuan Scultpure Symposium, Taiyuan, China
Art Copenhagen, Galleriy Norballe Stand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Zvono Projects, KV Gastezimmer, Stuttgart
Art Copenhagen, Gallery Noerballe, Copenhagen
Biennal of independent Art, Kino Siska, Ljubljana
Kondenzator, G12HUB, Belgrade 
20 years of Haos gallery, Gallery Haos, Belgrade
2014
Body 4, Artspace Politika, Belgrade
Spring Salon, Pavilion of Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade
The Institute for the Development of Emerging Art (IDEA), Copenhagen
Art Copenhagen, Gallery Noerballe, Copenhagen
2013
Nord Art, Budelsdorf
NISART Foundation, Nis, Belgrade
Biennale of Students Drawing, SKC, Belgrade
Interiors, Zvono Gallery, Belgrade
Augustiana, Gallery Noerballe, Augustenburg
Ghouls of Savamala, Mixer Festival, Belgrade
Lotos, Gallery Zvono, Belgrade
Winners of the Vladimir Velickovic Fund Award, Haos Gallery, Belgrade
2012
TERRA, Sculptors Symposium, Public space, Kikinda, Belgrade
HAOS Gallery, Drawing exhibition, Belgrade
Students Cultural Centre, S.U.N.D. , Belgrade
2011
Body 2, Gallery Magacin, Belgrade
MAK Museum, Project ABoT, Vienna
MGLC, Project ABoT, Ljubljana
UPM, Project ABoT, Prague
2007
Venice Biennale (part of the team Project Belgrade)

AWARDS

Recognition Award, MAK Museum, Vienna
Award for Drawing, Vladimir Velickovic Fund
Award “Miodrag Vujacic Mirski” for painting
Award for Sculpture, Taiyuan Sculpture Symposium
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COLLECTIONS
National Library, Krusevac, Serbia
Cultural Center of Pancevo, Pancevo, Serbia

The Museum of Modern Art Artists' Books Collection, MOMA Library, New York
Sumatovacka Collection, Belgrade
Radix Collection, Belgrade
Various private collections in Austria, Germany, Denmark, China, Slovenia, USA, Italy, Switzerland, Russia and Serbia

​PUBLIC COMMISIONS

National Library, 10 objects, 2019. , Krusevac, Serbia
National Museum in Krusevac, Stained glass, 2017, Krusevac
​Kino Siska, Mural, 2016, Ljubljana

Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Mural, 2015, Belgrade
Kunstlerhaus Vienna, Mural, 2013, Vienna
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