This September, White Cube participates in the 2025 edition of The Armory Show, returning for the first time since its inaugural edition in 1994 with a solo presentation of new painting, sculpture and works on paper by the Croatian-born, New York-based artists, TARWUK.
Working as a single entity, TARWUK [Bruno Pogačnik Tremow (b. 1981, Zagreb, Croatia) and Ivana Vukšić (b. 1981, Dubrovnik, Croatia)], form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Living and working in New York since 2013, the artist’s practice can be understood within the context of the aspirations, struggles and eventual dissolution of the former Yugoslavian state, and its elusive avant-garde.
This is the first time White Cube will exhibit TARWUK in the US, following the artist’s solo exhibitions in Paris and London in 2023, the same year they joined the gallery.
The presentation at The Armory Show features new works conceived for this occasion, including seven paintings and five sculptures. Thinking of time and memory as materials, TARWUK process and manipulate them using performance and video. New paintings explore formal cinematic elements—composition, framing, and point of view. Monochromatic plaster sculptures with handmade fabric elements appear as costumed mannequins and theatrical mise-en-scènes.
The environments TARWUK create often blur the boundaries between the personal and the political, evoking fragmented narratives that explore the intersections of myth and lived experience. Of their methodology when creating these environments, they have said: “Through the re-staging of installations and the repositioning of relationships between previously exhibited objects into new, still undefined constellations, we open up the possibility for objects not to remain static, but to be continually reactivated.”
Emphasising their collaborative practice as a process towards the total merge of their individual subconsciousness, TARWUK’s intricate compositions contain numerous references that form whole worlds, functioning as dynamic sites of transhistorical dialogue between form, materiality and cultural memory.
Prices for works are available on request.
The Armory Show runs concurrently with ‘Tiona Nekkia McClodden: PURE GAZE’, a solo exhibition of new works by the artist on view at White Cube New York from September 2 until October 18, 2025.
