The European High quality Artwork Basis’s (Tefaf) revolving door of managing administrators has turned as soon as extra.
Dominique Savelkoul, the fifth particular person to have held this place in 4 years, has left her put up on the helm of the organisation.
“Tefaf and its managing director, Dominique Savelkoul, have parted methods due to differing views on the organisation’s future strategic course,” a Tefaf spokesperson informed The Artwork Newspaper.
Savelkoul joined Tefaf, which holds two main festivals for artwork and antiques in Maastricht and New York, in September 2024. A museum veteran, she beforehand led Mu.ZEE in Belgium, and held administration roles at London’s Nationwide Gallery and Philharmonic Orchestra.
She informed The Artwork Newspaper final yr that she was centered on enhancing sustainability and interesting to a youthful technology of collectors. Savelkoul, who’s Belgian, was the primary non-Dutch director of the truthful in its 37-year historical past.
Her speedy predecessor, Bart Drenth, stepped down in June 2023 after simply six months into the function. His departure got here after controversial X posts, reportedly geared toward “leftists” and “Muslims”, resurfaced within the media.
The subsequent editions of Tefaf are scheduled to run 14-19 March 2026 in Maastricht and 15-19 Might 2026 in New York. Highlights from the forthcoming Maastricht version embrace an image of St Jerome by Orazio Gentileschi, introduced by Trinity High quality Artwork, and a Tahitian Head Research by Gaugin, introduced by Colnaghi Elliott.
The organisation has not but introduced who will substitute Savelkoul, both on an interim or everlasting foundation.
Savelkoul didn’t reply to a request for remark.
