
Claudia Paetzold
Independent Curator, Founder of Consult Curate Create & Curating Evolution
A graduate of the Sorbonne, Harvard and Christie’s Education, born and raised in Germany and based between London and Paris, Claudia Paetzold has acted as a creative consultant and curator for more than fifteen years.
She has helped building private collections and foundations and provided consultancy services to a myriad of art organizations, including Art Basel. Her site responsive curatorial projects weave together contemporary art, ancestral knowledge, technological innovation and applied sustainability, operating as portals of awareness and enabling evolutionary pathways.
She received the Leading Cultural Destinations Award for Best New Culture Destination of the Year in Latin America as the artistic director of SFER IK Museion in Tulum, Mexico, a trans-disciplinary creative sphere, in 2020. Other recent projects include a Sunrise Snow Seeding Meditation with Ernesto Neto in a James Turrell skyspace at the Engadin Art Talks in Switzerland and an experiential exhibition on Primordial Waters at Domaine des Etangs in France. She has been featured in Artforum, AD and the FT.
She is currently working on Fire Forest for Elefsina, a collaborative endeavour to create a fire resilient forest as a community project with artistic resonancies nurturing all strata of the site’s ecosystem.