What is Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and what do we do?

Over the past two decades, Tate’s collection, displays and programmes have expanded beyond Europe and North America to be more open, inclusive and reflective of its audiences.

The Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational transforms how Tate develops and shares art historical knowledge around the world. Its research contributes to exhibitions, displays, acquisitions and events across Tate’s four galleries as well as with a wide network of local and international collaborators.

The word ‘transnational’ encourages us to challenge and revise dominant art histories. It highlights global exchanges and the circulation of artists and ideas. Transnational embraces the diverse perspectives that have shaped artistic practice.

Through the Centre, various adjunct curatorial roles in the fields of indigeneity, ecology, Africa and the Caribbean diaspora have been established. Find out more about our adjunct curators here.

Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational hosts research events including annual symposia, seminars, performances and workshops at Tate and beyond which contribute to the current and future Tate programme. The Centre also enables the development of digital content to share diverse stories.

In October 2024, Hyundai Tate Tate Research Centre: Transnational organised Waterways: arteries, rhythms and kinship, a three day symposium exploring how water binds us across histories and shared futures.

Find out how three featured artists of the Waterways symposium respond to different stretches of water

Who we are

Embedded within Tate's work across all four galleries, Tate team's across Curatorial, Research, Learning, Marketing, Press, Digital and more contribute to the work of Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. Read the biographies below to learn about some of the key contributors to the Centre.

Nabila Abdel Nabi, Senior Curator International Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

Nabila Abdel Nabi is Senior Curator, International Art, Tate Modern and lead of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. Nabila 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 The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life, The Making of Rodin, as well as major collection displays including The Shape of Words, 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.

Alice O’Sullivan, Programme Manager, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

Alice O’Sullivan is a producer and programme manager. She works as the Programme Manager for the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, based at Tate Modern. With a background in live music and now working in the visual arts, Alice’s interests and specialism sit at the intersection of music and art, with a strong focus on making these accessible to all. She has produced the Centre’s wide-ranging programme since 2023, which includes Waterways, Farah Al Qasimi’s Mother, Voice & Breath, and many more live performances, panel discussions, workshops, seminars and symposia. Alice is also a mentor on the King’s College London’s Leadership Mentoring Programme.

Kimberley Moulton, Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

A Yorta Yorta woman from Australia, Kimberley Moulton has over 17 years’ experience curating and writing across historical collections and contemporary artistic practice. Her role as Senior Curator, First Peoples, at Museums Victoria (2016-2023) showcased her ability to unite community, research, collections and art through an Indigenous led curatorial approach across global Indigenous communities. Moulton’s extensive curatorial work includes 17 exhibitions with Museums Victoria, various independent projects across Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the USA. Moulton was co-curator of the transnational Indigenous Triennial, Naadohbii: To Draw Water (2021-2023). In her role as Senior Curator for one of Australia's major international arts festivals, RISING Melbourne, she curated Shadow Spirit in 2023 - one of the largest newly commissioned exhibitions of national Indigenous art in Australia. Moulton has also been influential in various public art projects including rejuvenating the First Peoples Melbourne Art Trams project and curating large scale public commissions across Melbourne expanding the representation of Indigenous peoples through art and cultural practice across the city. In 2025 Moulton was curator of the Tarrawarra Biennial with her iteration, We Are Eagles.  Her expertise 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. Moulton has published extensively on Indigenous art and curatorial practice and is PhD candidate in curatorial practice at the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, Monash University. In 2023 Moulton was appointed a Curator Emeritus for Museums Victoria.

Marleen Boschen, Adjunct Curator of Art and Ecology, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational

Marleen Boschen, is a curator, lecturer and artist working at the intersections of art and ecology. She is Adjunct Curator of Art and Ecology at the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. She is also a post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with the research project Future Ecologies of Art, which examines botanical organisations as sites of artistic engagement. Since January 2023 she has co-curated Testing Grounds / Seeding Worlds, an artistic programme on cultivation, migration and agroecological learning for the garden of Villa Romana, Florence, with Elena Agudio. Her current research explores border ecologies, sonic practices, and ecological imaginaries.

Jarelle Francis, Exhibitions Assistant

Jarelle Francis is a curator with an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. He works as an Exhibitions Assistant and has previously held the same position at The Centre for British Photography. After curating independently for several years which led to working with organisations including Kensington and Chelsea Art Week and Bernie Grant Arts Centre- Jarelle founded Meadow in 2023, a nomadic project space which works with emerging artists to produce new solo exhibitions.

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