Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

Integrated within Tate Modern’s Curatorial team, the Centre’s core team work with the wider Curatorial team to lead or contribute to exhibitions, collection displays, acquisitions and public events. The Centre’s core team also work closely with the Learning & Research and Digital departments as well as other colleagues at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives, to connect Tate with a wide network of peers and academic partners.

Curators Nabila Abdel Nabi and Sadia Shirazi are embedded in Tate Modern’s Curatorial team to carry out acquisition and programme related curatorial work, with a focus on the Centre’s aim of contributing to the development of the ‘transnational’ framework.

Nabila Abdel Nabi is currently Curator, International Art at Tate Modern where she has worked on exhibitions including Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, The Making of Rodin, as well as various displays of Huguette Caland, Akram Zaatari, Yto Barrada, Wael Shawky and Infinite Geometry. She was previously Associate Curator at The Power Plant, Toronto where she worked on solo exhibitions and facilitated new commissions by artists including Hajra Waheed, Abbas Akhavan, Kapwani Kiwanga, Kader Attia, Latifa Echakhch, Vivian Suter, Karla Black, Omar Ba and Amalia Pica, among others. Prior to this she worked as Gallery Manager (Exhibitions), The Third Line, Dubai. Abdel Nabi has edited and contributed to multiple exhibition catalogues and publications. She holds degrees from the Courtauld Institute of Art and University of Chicago.

Sadia Shirazi is currently Curator, International Art at Tate. Her work focuses on transregional histories of modernism and contemporary art in South Asia. Recent curatorial and archival projects include the 02020 Counter-Archive for Performance Space New York, Soft and Wet (2019) at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, welcome to what we took from is the state (2016) at the Queens Museum, and 230MB/Exhibition Without Objects (2013) at Khoj International Artists’ Association. Shirazi has contributed to exhibition catalogues, collected volumes and publications including Artforum, art-agenda and Bidoun, and is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2021). Shirazi holds a MA from MIT and a PhD from Cornell University, held an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Transnational Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University and is a Visiting Scholar in their Department of History.

The Centre’s activities are devised and managed by the Programme Manager and Assistant Curator, International Art, HTRC:T.

Steering Committee

The Centre is guided by Tate’s internal Steering Committee, which consists of Tate-wide directors and senior members of staff with expertise in Tate’s core activities including the collection, displays and exhibitions, research and national and international partnerships. The Steering Committee members input into and steer the Centre’s strategy and output and align our events with Tate’s programmes at all Tate sites: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.

Advisory Board

The Centre is also supported by an Advisory Board, which consists of external academics working in the field of transnational art history. The role of the Board is to advise and steer the Centre’s strategic direction and to help develop a wider network in academia and artistic communities across the world.

Members

Professor Oriana Baddeley (University of the Arts London)
Professor Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University)
Professor Christian Kravagna (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton University)
Professor Ming Tiampo (Carleton University)

OPPORTUNITIES TO GET INVOLVED

The Centre offers a variety of short-term posts that are designed specifically to offer developmental opportunities to researchers and curators from around the world. These are tiered to support people at all stages of their careers. Opportunities, open calls and grant applications will be listed here when they arise.

Follow @TateResearch on Twitter for all updates, news and opportunities.

VISITING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

This programme provides academics and curators with the opportunity to develop their independent research that aligns with Tate’s research interests.

Updates will be posted here when new Fellows are in place.

These posts provide curators and researchers with the opportunity to remain within the region they are working in and carry out field research in relevant areas for Tate.

The current Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational Adjunct Curators are Daniella Rose King, Portia Malatjie, Pablo José Ramirez, Marleen Boschen and Kimberley Moulton.

Daniella Rose King is Adjunct Curator, Caribbean Diasporic Art

Daniella Rose King is a curator and writer concerned with artistic practices of the Caribbean and black diaspora with a particular emphasis on feminisms, the capitalocene and black geographic thought. Between 2017 and 2020 she was the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania where she curated two interrelated exhibition and publication projects that addressed concerns at the intersection of black feminism, environmental racism and contemporary visual art practices: The Last Place They Thought Of (2018) and Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth (2019). Prior to this she was the 2015/16 Whitney Independent Study Program Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow. She has held institutional positions at Nottingham Contemporary, Iniva in London, Cornerhouse (now HOME) in Manchester and MASS Alexandria. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.

Portia Malatjie is Adjunct Curator, Africa and African Diaspora

Portia Malatjie’s research focuses on expressions of African conceptions of blackness – with an emphasis on the sonic and the temporal – in contemporary African artistic practice. At the core of her research is how African spiritual practices, fugitivity, spectrality, and technology are mobilised as modes of black refusal. Portia has curated work by Helen Sebidi, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Yinka Shonibare CBE and Kemang Wa Lehulere. She is working towards a co-curated extensive research and exhibition project that instrumentalises black feminist theory to correct the exclusion of black South African women artists from a broader art history. Portia will soon be taking up a position as Lecturer in Art History and Discourse of Art at the University of Cape Town, where she will be based. She will work closely with the curatorial team at Tate Modern, including Osei Bonsu, Curator, International Art, and with the Africa Acquisitions Committee. Portia has an MA and BA from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and is completing her PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Marleen Boschen is Adjunct Curator, Art and Ecology

Marleen Boschen, is a curator, lecturer and artist working at the intersections of art and ecology. In 2019 she co-curated the research, performance and exhibition project Soil is an Inscribed Body: On Sovereignty and Agropoetics at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin with Elena Agudio. The exhibition considered land relations, anti-colonial struggles and multispecies collaborations through artistic practice. Since January 2023 she has continued the collaboration with Agudio to develop Testing Grounds, an artistic programme on cultivation, migration and agroecological learning for the garden of Villa Romana in Florence. Boschen holds a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, an MA in Global Studies from Humboldt Universität in Berlin and a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Kimberley Moulton is Adjunct Curator, First Nations and Indigenous Art

Yorta Yorta woman from Australia Kimberley Moulton has over 15 years’ experience curating and writing across historical collections and contemporary artistic practice. Her role as Senior Curator, First Peoples, at Museums Victoria showcased her ability to unite community, research, collections and art through an Indigenous led curatorial approach across global Indigenous communities. She has extensive experience in curatorial work which includes 17 exhibitions with Museums Victoria, various independent projects across Australia and the USA and recently co-curated the transnational Indigenous Triennial, Naadohbii: To Draw Water. In 2023 in her role as Senior Curator and Artistic Associate for RISING Festival Melbourne she curated one of the largest newly commissioned exhibitions of national Indigenous art in Australia called Shadow Spirit. Moulton has also been influential in various public art projects including rejuvenating the Melbourne First Peoples Art Trams project and expanding on the representation of Indigenous peoples through art and cultural practice across the city. Her expertise also encompasses Indigenous Arts Awards adjudication, state advisory roles for the cultural sector and active participation in global exchanges, all aimed at empowering Indigenous communities through art and cultural connections. She is a PhD candidate in curatorial practice at the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab Monash University.

Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational
Tate Modern
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London SE1 9TG
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