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Elana Brundyn
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| Spouse | Pieter Brundyn (married 1993) |
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Elana Brundyn is a fine art and cultural consultant based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has previously worked as a commercial gallerist and a museum director.[1]
Brundyn was involved in launching two important African museums – she was the founding CEO of Norval Foundation and an inaugural director at Zeitz MOCAA.[2][3][4][5] During her time at Norval Foundation, she helped establish a formal art partnership with Boschendal which resulted in the launch of satellite art exhibitions hosted on the farms’ historic manor house with a focus on artists from across Africa.[6][7][8]
Currently, Brundyn sits on the Board of Trustees for Aspire Art Lalela, and the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust.[9] She is also the founder of the Art House Collection.[10]
In 2023, she founded Brundyn Arts and Culture, a consultancy that offers curatorial, education, and fine art advisory services.[11][12] The consultancy has two exhibition spaces – in the Cape Town CBD and at Boschendal in the Cape Winelands.[13][14] The launch of Brundyn Arts and Culture coincided with the opening of Lebohang Kganye’s solo exhibition, Mmoloki wa mehopolo: Breaking Bread with a Wanderer in Cape Town.[15][16] The show traveled to Boschendal where it was presented alongside The Sea is History, consisting of four large-scale pop-up sculptures.[17][18] In 2024, Kganye won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.[19][20][21]
Brundyn was the founding CEO of Norval Foundation – a museum dedicated to exhibiting, researching and archiving 20th and 21st-century art from Africa and its diasporas. Norval Foundation launched in April 2018.[22][23] Notable exhibitions during her time at Norval Foundation include AccomplicebyMichael Armitage,[24] Heliostat by Wim Botha,[25] Why Do I HesitatebyWilliam Kentridge[26] and Alpha and OmegabyJackson Hlungwani.
Prior to joining Norval Foundation, Brundyn was part of a small team that helped launch the Zeitz MOCAA in September 2017. Her role was Director of Institutional Development and External Affairs.[1][4]
In 2020, Elana was part of the judging panel that nominated the most beautiful object in South Africa.[27]
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