Published 02 May 2025 in News
Welcome May – and a warm welcome to Claire Breukel in our monthly AAG Art Picks series! Scroll down to see her picks.
South African born, Claire Breukel works internationally as an art professional including two decades in Miami, New York, and San Salvador. Her interests lie in applying an approach of care to programming connecting artists, collectors, art fans across borders. For three years she has worked as Head of Global Patronage at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, further establishing the Global Council and the non-profit American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA. Previously, she has worked with notable foundations including as Executive Director of Y.ES Contemporary, co-producer of the 2013 and 2018 (RED) Auctions and helped strategize and co-found Miami public art programs Fringe Projects and Art Days for the Miami Downtown Development Authority, the Unscripted art program for Bal Harbour Village. Claire is the arts writer for Miami Modern Luxury Magazine, writes for Art Basel magazine, among others, and has curated exhibitions in Cape Town, Prague, Paris, New York, Miami, San Salvador, and Vienna.
Griot (2025) by Daniel Atenyi
Daily Grind (2024) by Richard Atugonza
Blue Dress (2023) by Charlene Komuntale
Laze (2024) by Sungi Mlengeya
Threads of Quiet Resistance (2024) by Charlene Komuntale
“The artists that I have selected share insight into personal narratives as well as states of being that illustrate life multidimensionally. Topics of rest, daily life and wellbeing are not soft topics, rather they carry deep sociopolitical connotations. Who gets to rest, when, where, how long for and why? Visually seductive, many of these works guise provocations and invite thought and consideration beyond just the obvious actions they suggest. The title of Charlene Komuntale’s work ‘Threads of Quiet Resistance’ perhaps sums this up best.”
– Claire Breukel