For its 2022 exhibition highlight, the Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna) invited George Nuku, one of the world's most sought-after Māori artists, to Vienna. The New Zealander has already realized around 120 major projects worldwide, and Vienna can be described as the highpoint of his career to date.

For three whole months, he worked with around 200 volunteer helpers on numerous installations, which can now be marveled at in the Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna). The special exhibition "Oceans. Collections. Reflections." extends from the wonderful hall of columns through seven of the museum's exhibition rooms. Each is a spectacle of color in itself. Topics are Māori culture, oceans, communities of origin, and colonialization, as well as the Austrian Novara expedition, which stopped off in New Zealand in the middle of the 19th century.

Works from the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien and of the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna literally merge with Nuku's art. He works autobiographically and at the same time focuses on global issues like the climate crisis. Past and future always collide. Nuku's preferred materials: Above all plastic, but also polystyrene, Plexiglas, and wood. Again and again, the visitors comes across plastic bottles or parts of them and their twist caps.

Oceans. Collections. Reflections. 

June 23, 2022 - January 31, 2023, Weltmuseum Wien