Fanny Wonu Veys

Fanny Wonu Veys is curator Oceania at the National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW). There, Veys has curated the Mana Māori exhibition (2010–2011), Things that Matter (2017-), Australian Art (2019-2022), What a Genderful World (2019-2020; 2021-2022), A Sea of Islands (2020-2021) and Treasures from the depot: Easter Island (2022). She co-curated a barkcloth exhibition Tapa, Étoffes cosmiques d’Océanie in Cahors (France, 2009) and Migrating Objects: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2020 and 2021). Her expertise includes Pacific art and material culture, museums and cultures of collecting,textiles in the Pacific, gender and material culture, missionary collecting and the significance of historical objects today. She has published dozens of articles in journals and books and is the editor of Provenance published by the NMVW. She is the president of the Pacific Arts Association Europe. In 2022 she held the Barbro Klein fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala).