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 in retrospect. In 1980 she did the unheard-of, introducing film, video, and performance, including by the mid-'80s the work of Hans Haacke, 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, 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 retrospective; "Sculptors' Drawings" (including Houshiary Kapoor, Richard Long, 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: 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 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."