The Vanishing Maori show presents - 'A joint reflection'
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| free admission |
| English |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Part of: SPÄTI |
Step into performance that blends art, storytelling, and live presence on stage. Accompanied by three striking effigies, George Nuku weaves a powerful tapestry of interconnected narratives—part parable, part monologue, part dialogue, and much more.
Through four interwoven stories, The Vanishing Māori Show delves into profound themes: colonisation, repatriation, human agency, and the very measures of life itself. Each moment invites reflection, bringing these complex histories and realities into the immediacy of the present.
Join us for an evening where art and performance become a space for deep contemplation and shared experience.
Participants
George Nuku (*1964 in Omahu, Aotearoa, New Zealand) is a highly regarded and internationally known Māori artist working in stone, bone, wood, shell, polystyrene and plexiglass. His works range from delicate jade and pearl amulets to life-size stone and plexiglass sculptures, inspired by Polynesian demi-gods and Māori cultural heroes. George Nuku incorporates the tradition of his people, handed down for thousands of years, into an art form that promises to prolong life and enhance survival.
Sabine Hoffmann was born and raised in Berlin. She grew up listening to a wide range of hip-hop, soul, funk and crossover beats. Sabine discovered her passion for DJing vinyl in the early 2000s when she first got into electronic music. She plays a mix of techno, electro, Chicago and Detroit house with a dash of acid, funk and breakbeats, but regardless of the style, Sabine will only ever be seen playing vinyl as she prefers the warmth of analog sounds and the classic feel of turntables. She has played at almost all the leading clubs in Berlin such as About Blank, Salon zur wilden Renate, Berghain Kantine, Griessmühle, IPSE, Farbfernseher, Golden Gate, Arena Club and the list goes on.
Her international profile is steadily increasing, she has played in Tbilisi, Paris, Baku, Yerevan, Krakow and Thessaloniki to name a few. Sabine is the founder of “Frauengedeck”. This is a series of events that focuses on an all-female line-up. She wants to support and present female DJs. She has hosted many events in various clubs in Berlin such as Wilde Renate, Griessmühle, Farbfernseher and Beate Uwe. The first international events outside Germany took place in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, more countries will follow soon.
Since 2016 Sabine has been working at the famous OYE record store in Berlin. She also hosts a monthly Frauengedeck livestream, which is streamed from the OYE record store. She graduated from SAE with a degree in sound engineering. Inspired by her acquired knowledge, she began to focus on music production. The first result, a collaboration with No Mad Ronin, is available on the label Zaijenroots.
George Tamihana Nuku is a CoMuse Fellow at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst from March to May 2025.
CoMuse – The Collaborative Museum is an initiative by the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst that aims to develop multi-perspective approaches to collection-based research and to test new formats of international collaborative processes in order to intensify the decolonization and diversification of museum practices in sustainable ways.
The CoMuse fellowship programme is supported by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which provides a studio for artistic and scientific research.
