Connecting you to Contemporary African art, design & craft.
Curate & Co.connects international collectors, institutions and cultural organisations to Africa's contemporary art, design and craft world through curated experiences, bespoke travel, advisory work, and exhibition projects. We're embedded in this world, which means the access we offer is real. A genuine encounter with the people, spaces and stories that matter.
Thobeka Ndlela is a cultural strategist and brand specialist with extensive experience in institutional development and experience design. Claire Breukel is a curator and art world insider with deep relationships across the African and international contemporary art landscape. Together, they offer something genuinely rare: the inside, made accessible.
Thobeka Ndlela
Claire Breukel
Thobeka Ndlela is a Cape Town-based cultural
connecter with more than 16 years of experience
in positioning and relationships across brand,
corporate and cultural sectors.
Through Curate & Co, she brings a rare cross-industry perspective to the world of contemporary African art, shaped by senior roles in both the corporate and cultural sectors and most recently as Head of Institutional Advancement at Zeitz MOCAA, where she
stewarded relationships with major collectors
and philanthropists across the United States,
Europe and Africa. She believes the most
powerful cultural experiences are built on genuine
human connection and the kind of access that
only comes through trust.
Claire Breukel has worked as an art professional for two decades between Miami, New York, and San Salvador and Cape Town. Today, her interests lie in care as a counter action, applying this approach to sharing the creative communities in which she lives with intention. She has curated museum, non-profit and gallery exhibitions in Cape Town, Prague, Paris, New York, Miami, San Salvador, Vienna and Park City.
For four years she worked as Head of Global Programs at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa under the leadership of the late visionary Koyo Kouoh and in Miami and New York for 19 years prior to that.
Claire is an arts writer for multiple international publications.