Helen Sainsbury

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Helen Sainsbury is the Head of Programme Realisation at Tate Modern. She joined Tate in 1988. She is responsible for the realisation, planning and financial management of Tate Modern’s programme of exhibitions, collection displays and performance and film programmes. A highly experienced curator, manager and exhibition organiser, she oversees the production and planning of Tate Modern’s programme, working closely with the Director of Exhibitions, curators and colleagues across the Tate team to ensure successful delivery. She has curated a major commission by Miroslaw Balka for the Unilever Series in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (2009–10), a thematic exhibition featuring works from Tate’s collection entitled Domestic Incidents (2006), and an exhibition by Damián Ortega (2005). She has also commissioned site-specific works by Beatriz Milhazes and James Aldridge. Helen Sainsbury has been a co-curator of exhibitions on the work of Marlene Dumas, Salvador Dalí and August Strindberg and assisted on many others including Donald Judd (2004), Eva Hesse Hesse (2003) and Surrealism: Desire Unbound (2001). She has participated in two major rehangs of the collection, curating numerous monographic displays by artists such as Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Cornelia Parker and Mark Rothko.

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