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CATHERINE KINLEY.


Catherine Kinley has an appetite for the new. For the past twenty-two years she has researched, advised on, catalogued, documented, and displayed the Tate's holdings, always with an eye for innovative programming and "learning as we go." Currently overseeing the Tate Collections contemporary team, Kinley provides a vital crossover link between Bankside and Millbank as the museum expands.

During her tenure as curator, Kinley has put together some programs that seem almost prescient pre·scient  
adj.
1. Of or relating to prescience.

2. Possessing prescience.



[French, from Old French, from Latin praesci
 in retrospect. In 1980 she did the unheard-of, introducing film, video, and performance, including by the mid-'80s the work of Hans Haacke Hans Haacke (born 1936 in Cologne, Germany) is a conceptual artist.

Haacke studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. From 1961 to 1962 on a Fulbright grant at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.
, Silvia Ziranek, Rose English, Dara Birnbaum, and Marie-Jo Lafontaine. Kinley also worked on the 1987 exhibition "Art from Europe," which featured eight artists including Ulay and Marina Abramovic, Rosemarie Trockel This article or section does not cite its .
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, and Astrid Klein. In the early to mid-'90s she was busy with a number of group and solo shows: David Hockney's paintings; a Robert Ryman Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. The majority of his works feature abstract expressionist-influenced brushwork in white or off-white paint on square canvas or metal surfaces.  retrospective; "Sculptors' Drawings" (including Houshiary Kapoor, Richard Long Richard Long may be:
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, and Rachel Whiteread); and a solo exhibition of work by Marlene Dumas. Best of all, Kinley's up-to-the-minute involvement as co-curator of the 1996-98 "Art Now" program led to last year's cutting-edge show "Abracadabra abracadabra (ăb'rəkədăb`rə), magical formula used by the Gnostics (see Gnosticism) to invoke the aid of benevolent spirits to ward off disease and affliction. : International Contemporary Art."

Having helped shape the permanent collection, "our major resource," Kinley looks forward to seeing many of its contemporary holdings unveiled in Bankside's eighty brand-new galleries. In planning her own installations for the opening, she says, "I cast my eye across the lot: a big range of work from the Minimal--Andre, Judd, Flavin flavin: see coenzyme.
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Any of a class of organic compounds, pale yellow biological pigments that fluoresce green. They occur in compounds essential to life as coenzymes in metabolism.
 neon--to Susan Hiller's Freud works and important loans." Contributions include additional Flavin pieces from the Froelich Foundation's collection.

With double the space and an expansion of staff, Kinley can attest to "a very lively atmosphere" around the museum. "What I like best about my time at the Tate is the opportunity to be involved with new developments, so these are exciting times."
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Title Annotation:Contemporary art team, Tate Modern, London, "England
Author:Henry, Clare
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Date:Apr 1, 2000
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