Vuk Ćuk

With overwhelming concerns that marked the years 2020 and 2021, we are approaching an era of post-pandemic anxiety, which extends to predictions and speculations on an upcoming economic crisis. This subject has been central to Vuk Ćuk’s practice since the beginning of 2020, following up on global fascinations with technological advancements that coexist with capitalist logic. Examining the circulation of data, objects and, as of recently, viruses, the artist invites us to meet Nature, capital N, as it collides with the challenges of the 21st century.

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The Belgrade-based sculptor, installation and video artist Vuk Ćuk is interested in the deformation of nature and human behaviour caused by capitalist logic, trends and technological influence. The exhibition presents an ensemble of kinetic and static installations, video works and sculptures developed especially for the exhibition, which as a holistic environment suggests a tragicomic narrative of the future. DEsert hideaway is the artist’s first solo presentation in Germany.Ćuk’s sculptural technoids and landscape-models or apparatuses-resembling installations send out one thing in particular: