New years always bring new events, and it looks like the coming year is chock-full of Inuit and circumpolar Indigenous art happenings across the world. From exhibitions to new books, festivals, anniversaries and annual traditions, we’re bringing together 25 of the events we’re most excited about in 2025.
Read on to learn about these 5, and keep an eye out for the others coming in the series to catch all 25!
Ningiukulu Teevee Stepping Out (2020) Printmaker Niviaksie Quvianaqtuliaq Lithograph 53.6 x 72.2 cm REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION DORSET FINE ARTS © THE ARTIST
Ningiukulu Teevee: Stories from Kinngait Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq
Winnipeg, MB
Fall 2025
Originally presented in 2024 at Canada House in London, UK, the touring exhibition Ningiukulu Teevee: Stories from Kinngait will be on view in fall 2025 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq in Manitoba. This exhibition features works by accomplished graphic artist Ningiukulu Teevee, who was also the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award winner. Curated by Darlene Coward Wight, this exhibition will expand on the original 26 works in the Canada House iteration to showcase a vast array of Teevee’s pieces over the years.
Tasiana Shirley as Saila in a still from Ashley Qilavaq-Savard’s short film Reclaim (2023), which premiered at the 2024 Skábmagovat Film Festival COURTESY ASHLEY QILAVAQ-SAVARD
Skábmagovat Film Festival Aanaar (Inari), Finland
January 23–26, 2025
The Skábmagovat Film Festival is a yearly festival in Aanaar (Inari), Finland, that celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ films from around the world and encourages dialogue and relationship-building across peoples and cultures. In January the festival will also showcase new films from nine circumpolar Indigenous filmmakers who participated in the 2024 Witness film training and mentorship program. Participants include Inuit filmmakers Ashley Qilavaq-Savard and Jennifer Kilabuk with their project Intergenerational Climate Activism; Neets’aii Gwich’in filmmaker Princess Daazhraii Johnson with her project This is a Story About Salmon; Kalaaleq filmmaker Marc Fussing Rosbach with his project Our Ancestors’ Secrets; Sámi filmmaker Johannes Vang with his project Red-Shaded Green; Sámi filmmakers Elin Marakatt and Sara Beate Eira with their project Untitled (Cloudberry); and Inuvialuit filmmakers Eriel Lugt and Carmen Kuptana with their project Untitled.
New logo of the Suialaa Arts Festival, created in 2024 by Kaalaleq graphic designer Arny Koor Mogensen
Suialaa Arts Festival Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
October 23–26, 2025
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Suialaa Arts Festival, formerly the Nuuk Nordisk Kulturfestival, will run from October 23 to 26, 2025, in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). Contemporary art and culture from across the Arctic will take centre stage, including theatre, dance, music, literature and visual arts. The Nuuk Kunstmuseum (the Nuuk Art Museum) will host an exhibition of works by Kalaallit artists and Sámi artists, while other partner institutions like Katuaq, Nunatta Isiginnaartitsisarfia (the National Theater of Greenland) and Nunatta Atuagaateqarfia (the Central Library of Greenland), will offer performances, readings, seminars and workshops.
Lucy Tulugarjuk as Uyarak in a still of Tautuktavuk (What We See) (2023) COURTESY ISUMA DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL
Uvagut TV Starting January 20, 2025
After acquiring a broadcast licence and mandatory distribution order, Uvagut TV will begin hosting five hours of current-affairs programming from across Inuit Nunangat as well as five hours of children’s programming per day starting in January. With at least 80 percent of programming broadcast in an Inuit language—including Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut and Inuvialuktun—there will be a number of original productions to see on Uvagut TV in 2025, including Inuit Makers, directed by Carol Kunnuk and Gabriela Gamez; GO NORTH!, directed by Kim O’Bomsawin; Arnaapik, directed by Lucy Tulugarjuk, Miali Buscemi and Maia Iotzova; Mangittatuarjuk, directed by Louise Flaherty and Neil Christopher; Tundra Friends, hosted by Susan Aglukark, OC, and directed by Roselynn Akulukjuk, Nadia Sammurtok, Neil Christopher and Louise Flaherty; Tuktu, directed by Nadia Sammurtok; and Wrong Husband, produced and directed by Zacharias Kunuk, OC, ONu, LLD.
Shirley Moorhouse Glacial Beaded Rock (2023) 14.4 lb glacial rock, fruit bags, tulle, silks, Swarovski crystals, found objects, key, ballpoint pen, holder, candy wrappers, shells and metallics COURTESY THE ROOMS © THE ARTIST
Shirley Moorhouse The Rooms
St. John’s, NL
June 7–September 21, 2025
From June to September 2025, The Rooms in St. John’s, NL, will be welcoming viewers to an eponymous solo exhibition on multidisciplinary artist Shirley Moorhouse, who is best known for her distinctive multimedia wallhangings. Guest curated by Rose Bouthillier, this exhibition will feature works across Moorhouse’s three-decade artistic practice, including textiles, sculpture, installation, painting and poetry.