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Wonu Veys

Pacific Aesthetics and European Collecting Craze

Pacific Aesthetics and European Collecting Craze: Wuvulu and Aua Design

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About the author

Wonu Veys works as the Curator Oceania at the Wereldmuseum and as professor by special appointment ‘Arts and Material Culture of Oceania’ at Leiden University. Veys has curated the Mana Maori exhibition (2010–2011), Things that Matter (2017-), Australian Art (2019-), What a Genderful World (2019-2020; 2021-2022), A Sea of Islands (2020-2021) and Treasures from the depot: Easter Island (2022-).

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam; where global art, design and culture intersect to tell stories of global connections and revisit historical injustice.

Wereldmuseum Leiden; where icons of the world meet the beauty of indigenous traditions.

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam; where the beauty and diverse meanings of craftsmanship, from traditional to contemporary, take center stage.

Wereldlab; A museum without walls in a city full of stories, where visitors actively shape the vision for a future Wereldmuseum Nijmegen.

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