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.
The Centre is led by Senior Curator Nabila Abdel Nabi alongside curatorial colleagues and the Centre's core team.
Nabila Abdel Nabi is Senior Curator, International Art, Tate Modern. She joined Tate Modern in April 2019 as Curator, International Art, and has been embedded in the centre's core activities, as well as being responsible for organising exhibitions and displays, developing the museum’s acquisitions strategy and broadening the representation of artists from West Asia and North Africa. She has worked on exhibitions including Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, The Making of Rodin, as well as major collection displays of Anna Boghiguian, Farah Al Qasimi, 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. Abdel Nabi has edited and contributed to multiple exhibition catalogues and publications. She has presented her work and been a guest lecturer at institutions including University of Cambridge, Courtauld Insitute of Art, SOAS University, amongst others. She holds degrees from the Courtauld Institute of Art and University of Chicago.
Curator Sadia Shirazi is 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.
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.