Manatunga: Interventions by George Nuku

The Ethnological Museum presents three large-scale interventions by the Māori artist George Nuku, one of New Zealand's leading contemporary artists, at the Humboldt Forum. As a sculptor he works with stone, bone, wood and shell, but above all with polystyrene and Perspex.

The installations were made during two fellowships within the initiative The Collaborative Museum. One large-scale work stands in the large boat hall (room 215) and deals with the relationship between people and the sea and the effects of climate change and pollution; two more are on view in room 219, devoted to Polynesia, ancestors and deities.

Manatunga is the Māori term for valuable objects, heirlooms and treasures of the ancestors. On the 2nd floor of the Ethnological Museum; the exhibition ticket for Ethnological Collections and Asian Art is required.