Helen Kaplinsky is an independent curator based in London. Her a Fellowship with the Contemporary Art Society culminated in the exhibition "Damn braces: Bless relaxes", at Whitechapel Gallery and MIMA (2013-2014). The research focused on English 19th century landscape painting, during the height of enclosure of common land and related this to concepts of freedom and liberalism via William Blake, the online derive of Heath Bunting, privatisation during the Thatcher era and Oliver Laric's use of collaborative commons. She is currently working on #temporararycustodians, an R&D project considering how the shift towards a share economy will transform our institutional collection and philanthropy model.

Other recent projects include "The Posthuman Era Became a Girl" at South London Gallery and Goldsmiths University (2014) "Self Interruption" at Jack Chiles (2013) and "Thrall'dom" at LIMAZULU (2012). Exhibitions with the Arts Council Collection include "Image as Witness" for the European Commission (2013) and "British Modern Remade" at Park Hill Estate (2012). She lectures in Art and Design history at the City Literacy Institute and has undertaken a number of curatorial residencies in France, China and the UK.