Following its premiere presentation in 2025 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Split, and subsequently at AK Gallery in Koprivnica, Brač-based artist Tino Vuković will present his series Stories from My Garden to the Zagreb audience from 9 July to 30 August in the eponymous exhibition at Josip Račić Gallery.
The exhibition features thirteen selected mixed-media works created in 2024. According to the exhibition's curator, Marta Radman, the elements of the garden do not function as depictions of landscape but rather as points of departure for paintings that move between recognisable motifs and painterly signs. It is precisely within this spectrum—from engaging, familiar imagery to almost abstract structures—that the distinctive character of Vuković's series emerges. Radman also notes that the square format further underscores this relationship between measure and playfulness. The square may call to mind a garden bed, a plot of land, the pictorial frame, or the legacy of geometric abstraction, yet in Vuković’s paintings it never settles into strict formal order. Grass, flowers, bulbs, fruits, handwritten inscriptions, and humour all find their way into the composition.

Biography
Tino Vuković was born in 1987 on the island of Brač. He completed his master’s degree in painting in 2012 at the Arts Academy in Split. He currently heads the “Branislav Dešković” Art Gallery in Bol, where he is involved in numerous exhibitions as a curator, author of exhibition concepts, and
designer of visual layouts. Alongside his curatorial and gallery work, Vuković has continuously developed his artistic practice. He has participated in various group exhibitions and held several solo shows, including Does a Bear Shit in the Woods at the SC Gallery, Zagreb, 2021, We Are Not Like This at the “Branislav Dešković” Art Gallery, Bol, Brač, 2022, and What, If, Then at Salon Galić Gallery, Split, 2022. He also participated in the group exhibition Nesvrstani 7 at Lauba, Zagreb, in 2024. The cycle Stories from My Garden was presented in 2025 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Split, and at AK Gallery, Koprivnica.

The exhibition has been made possible with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City Office
for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb. It is accompanied by a bilingual Croatian–English catalogue featuring an essay by Marta Radman, curator of the National Museum of Modern Art's collection of artworks from 1990 to the present day. The catalogue was designed by Ana Zubić.

Images: Works from the Stories from My Garden cycle / 2024 / mixed media 100 × 100 cm (each work)/ Photo Zaklina Antonijević
Translated by Robertina Tomić