The newest works from a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist are set to feature at the fully-fledged return of the state's midwinter solstice celebration.

We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep, a new commission by multidisciplinary Trawlwoolway artist Nathan Maynard, will premiere at Dark Mofo 2025.

Locked in a nondescript basement in Hobart's CBD, Maynard's ambitious work uses flesh to lay bare the legacy of cultural theft and erasure of history.

He said the works represent the remains of Indigenous people stored in institutions around the world.

"Languishing in museums and their storerooms are the remains of ancestors of First Nations people from all around our globe," Maynard said.

"They have been stripped of identity and, without consent, treated like specimens for study and scientific inquiry."

Maynard is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist, receiving rave reviews for his examinations of race, community, power and identity, most recently as the playwright for Melbourne Theatre Company's 37.

As a visual artist, he has exhibited as part of Hobart Current at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with Relics Act, a project which saw an Australian man of British descent volunteer his future deceased body and will conclude with a ceremonial act of repatriation.

Maynard's new work for Dark Mofo continues his exploration of remains and reclamation.

"We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep speaks to the sadistic power white institutions flex when they deny First Nations people the humanity of putting our ancestor's remains to rest in the physical and the spiritual," he said.

Maynard's installation is the first work to be revealed from the 2025 Dark Mofo program, which returns as a fully fledged festival after a scaled down edition of the event was held last year.

Dark Mofo artistic director, Chris Twite, said demand for the festival remains strong after more than 6000 pre-release tickets sold out in a matter of hours as part of November's initial offering.

"Taking the year off in 2024 was a difficult decision, but Dark Mofo is back with renewed energy and focus, ready to deliver an enormous program spanning two packed weeks this June," Twite said.

"We're grateful for the support of the state government and the continued generosity of David Walsh, which is allowing us to lay the foundation for another incredible decade of Dark Mofo."

Dark Mofo 2025 will feature two weeks of contemporary art, live music, ritual and revelry in and around Hobart in the depths of winter.

The event's full lineup is set to be revealed on 4 April.