Indigenous artists in urban areas, whalers in the Arctic, bison hunters on the Great Plains or mask carvers on the northwest coast – NONAM invites you on a short journey through the great North America. The museum highlights the diversity of Indigenous nations, past and present, and offers exciting insights into the art forms and cultures of First Nations, Inuit, Native Americans, and Native Alaskans.
Photographer Markus Bühler has been travelling to Qaanaaq for almost thirty years. In Greenland’s far north, time seems to move at its own pace – and so do the people who live there. The Arctic is ruled by nature and weather, unpredictable and deeply connected to the rhythm of the moment.
Fascinated by life in the far north, Bühler has spent decades capturing the Inuit and the changes shaping their world. His photographs tell of a landscape and a culture undergoing rapid transformation – and of people whose traditional life as hunters is more fragile than ever. The signs of climate change are impossible to ignore. Yet as the ice edge creeps closer, young Inuit are looking back to their roots. They want to relearn how to live and hunt on the ice.
Together with his son, filmmaker Nils Bühler, Markus follows Aleqatsiaq Peary as he teaches his son Jonas how to survive in this harsh environment. Two fathers, two sons – four perspectives on a world in transition.
