The first edition of Tate Intensive: Making Tomorrow’s Art Museum, took place 4-8 July 2016. A group of 30 museum professionals - from Brazil, China, South Korea, Russia, Greece, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, India and the UK - came together for a series of activities and workshops led by contributors including Tate staff, artists and many other culture professionals.
Daily visits to exhibitions and collection displays at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and other London art organisations, including Chisenhale Gallery and Delfina Foundation, complemented discussions held in the new Tate Exchange spaces at Tate Modern. The group shared knowledge and experience of current practices and emerging trends that are shaping museums, exploring areas such as collecting, public engagement, accountability and international collaboration. It was a diverse, dynamic and highly engaged group who brought great breadth of experience: curators working both independently and in institutions of various sizes and contexts, as well as professionals with a focus on arts education, digital and marketing.
Their interactions with Tate Curators also opened up opportunities for frank peer-to-peer discussions about not just common challenges and how these are tackled, but also around differences, and how these are determined by the specific contexts in which each individual is operating.
Download the full programme for Tate Intensive: Making Tomorrow’s Art Museum.
Tate Intensive 2016 participants, © Tate
Keynote speakers
Maria Balshaw, Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries
Frances Morris, Tate Modern Director
Farshid Moussavi, Architect
Cornelia Parker, Artist
Nicholas Serota, Tate Director
2016 participants
Browse the slideshow below to find out who participated in Tate Intensive in 2016:
Miguel Amado
Senior Curator, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Natasha Barzaghi Geenen
International Relations Advisor, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Ben Borthwick
Artistic Director, Plymouth Arts Centre, UK
Kate Brindley
Director, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Ilaria Conti
Assistant Curator, 2016 Marrakech Biennale
Katherine Dennis
Independent curator and Adult Public Programs Coordinator, Vancouver Art Gallery
Sandra Dyck
Direct, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Yael Filipovic
Public Engagement Manager, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, Australia
Katherine Finerty
Independent Curator, UK
Aurore Fournier
Programme Director at People’s Liberty, Cincinnati, US
Latika Gupta
Curator at the National Gallery of Modern Art and at KHOJ International Artists’ Association, Delhi, and Independent Curator
Ekatarina Karavaeva
Head of the International and Exhibitions Department, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia
Yoonseo Kim
Curator, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMoMA), South Korea
Essie Lash
Marketing manager, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Li Qi
Senior Curator, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai, China
Jade Keunhye Lim
Head of Exhibitions at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), South Korea
Esther Lu
Director, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan
Yung Ma
Curator, Service création contemporaine et prospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Ashley Mask
Macy Gallery Fellow and doctoral student in Art and Art Education at Columbia University, Teachers College, New York City
Chelsea Nichols
Curator of Modern Art at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)
Tina Pandi
Art Historian and Curator, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
Anne Reeve
Assistant Curator, Glenstone Foundation, US
Luisa Santos
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica, Lisbon
Kamini Sawhney
Curator of the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
Lisa Slade
Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Isabella Tam
Assistant Curator at M+, Hong Kong
Adele Tan
Curator, National Gallery Singapore
Nandini Thilak
Assistant Curator, Mehrangarh Fort Museum, Jodhpur, India
Workshop contributors
Rob Baker, Tim Batchelor, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Caroline Collier, Elena Crippa, Anna Cutler, Marko Daniel, Clare Doherty, Alex Farquharson, Inga Fraser, Mark Godfrey, Emma Green, Alistair Hudson, Victoria Ivanova, Pete Jones, Samuel Jones, Clara Kim, Hilary Knight, Emma Lewis, Sam McGuire, Richard Martin, Emma Moore, Anna Murray, Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Judith Nesbitt, Shwetal Patel, Emily Pringle, Valentina Ravaglia, Rebecca Sinker, Nada Raza, Emily Vigliar, Katy Wan, Zoe Whitley and Linsey Young.
Tate Intensive 2017
Interested in taking part in Tate Intensive: Art Matters in 2017? Find out more and apply here.