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8 Aotearoa artists and 1 collective, Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry (SB16), co-curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell

06 February —
16 June 2025

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Luke Willis Thompson, Whakamoemoeā (film still), 2025. Courtesy of Galerie Nagel Draxler.

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Luke Willis Thompson, Yes, Germany voted in favor of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) when it was adopted by the General Assembly on September 13, 2007.

13 June —
30 August 2025

Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin, Germany

Luke Willis Thompson, Whakamoemoeā, 2024. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and produced by Ordinary Films and Kura Productions. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Ivan Erofeev.

Writing

Luke Willis Thompson in Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry

07.05.2025

In February 2025, Contemporary HUM spoke with Luke Willis Thompson from Sharjah Biennial 16 about his commissioned work Whakamoeamoeā. Set on Waitangi Day in 2040 as a public broadcast, the film imagines constitutional transformation in Aotearoa New Zealand, giving form to an Indigenous-focused dream of the future.

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Luke Willis Thompson, Mouvement des Malades

07 September —
15 September 2024

Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany

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Luke Willis Thompson, The Mouth is for Speaking

03 March —
28 May 2022

Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Writing

Luke Willis Thompson: A Sister Image

By Frances Loeffler

15.07.2017

Frances Loeffler writes on London-based New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson's residency at the Chisenhale Gallery in London, culminating in autoportrait (2017), a video portrait of Diamond Reynolds reflecting Thompson's ongoing enquiry into questions of race, class and social inequality.