TARWUK: Mit dem Frosch zu schmusen, ist es unmöglich
WHITE CUBE (@whitecube) is pleased to present, Mit dem Frosch zu schmusen, ist es unmöglich, TARWUK (@tarwuk), exhibition with the gallery in London.
July 9 – August 15, 2026
TARWUK, composed of Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić, is not an artist duo in the conventional sense. The artists describe their collaboration as a ‘condition’ – a chosen state of existence that prioritises process over product, dissolution over fixed identity, and relation over singular authorship. Central to TARWUK’s practice is the concept of theatre – not as spectacle or illusion, but as a methodology for aesthetic expression. The performative dimension does not require literal motion; rather, it inheres in the work’s relational instability.
Where classical sculpture asserts itself as a finished object occupying a defined space, TARWUK’s installations operate more like a transient or provisional stage set – assembled from discarded parts, contingent and perpetually subject to rearrangement. This theatrical vocabulary deliberately counters the language of sculptural stasis, which traditionally privileges material endurance, fixed form and immutable presence. By contrast, TARWUK embrace the fragment, the salvaged, the oddity and the discontinuous. Consequently, this approach leaves their practice fundamentally un-settled – refusing any single, stable reading or categorical resolution. More pointedly, it makes the work deeply un-settling for the audience, who are denied the comfort of passive observation and instead implicated within a fractured, mutable visual field that actively resists closure.
In the first of 13 Films (2026) TARWUK stage a vision in which the viewer is offered a drone’s perspective hovering over an unseen target, spliced with the sound of asthmatic, laboured breathing. The effect is one of being hunted, breathless, unable to draw air. Aerial surveillance is rendered visceral. The second minute-long film in the reel, shot as a negative image, tells us that a frog does not know it was once a tadpole – that it is unaware it can develop into an organism wholly unlike its progenitors, before abruptly and conspicuously moulting into its mature biology. One can have no legs, then acquire them. The frog is here a liminal being whose morphology stands at the threshold between two different identities, or at the intersection of different worlds.