After working as a curatorial assistant for the large-scale exhibition based in Berlin, which took place at Berlinische Galerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Tabassomi went on to serve as project manager at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
As a curator she was responsible for the program in the medieval tower of the Fridericianum in Kassel and afterwards ran Ludlow 38, the Goethe Institute’s exhibition space in New York. Since the beginning of 2017 she has served as director of the TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol. She has curated, among other exhibitions, the group shows Infrastructures of Pain, Accentisms, Laughing, and Ecocinema. She has also been responsible for curating the first solo exhibitions of, among others, Eric Baudelaire in Germany, Emeka Ogboh in New York, and Maryam Jafri and Corita Kent in Austria.