About

Dr. Rose Lejeune is an experienced curator and consultant with particular expertise in working with artists whose practices have strong multi-disciplinary, performative, digital, public or social elements.

Working across multiple curatorial modes including commissioning and exhibitions, collection expansion and acquisition research, and the education sector, she has built a reputation for strategic overview and curatorial innovation

In August 2025, she began a new role as Head of Academic and Community Programmes at the Fire Station in Doha, where she is helping to lead the transformation of the residency centre into a world-class art school and cultural platform.

Previously, over a number of self-initiated and institutional projects, she developed a reputation for curatorial innovation and critical discourse across the art ecosystem.

In 2024, as Co-Curator for the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, she led a large-scale live programme, the first of its kind in the country.

From 2019-2022, as Founding Director of Performance Exchange, she lead a UK-wide initiative integrating performance into collections by working with both commercial galleries and museums. In 2020, ArtNet’s Intelligence Report named me a “global innovator” for this project.

As Associate Curator for Delfina Foundation’s Collecting as Practice, from 2017-22, she curated a series of artist commissions and a talks programme interrogating the history of British museum collections alongside contemporary global collecting practices.

Working as a freelance consultant and with agencies both in the UK and the Gulf, Rose has substantial experience of institutional strategic planning, programme curation, public art and pedagogical course design. She is also frequently invited to share her expertise through teaching, panels, interviews and writing and works both in the UK and internationally.

Rose holds a BA in Philosophy and Art History, and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London entitled “Presence, Integrity and Assetisation. Performance in the Art Market.”