Rose Lejeune is a London-based curator and researcher focused on creating sustainable, cross-sector mechanisms to support the production and collection of contemporary art across the whole range of materials and mediums that artists today use.

In addition to regular writing and public speaking on these topics, she is currently working towards Performance Exchange, a UK-wide project working to embed performance within collections, and highlight the work commercial galleries do to support artists across the spectrum of contemporary art materials and practices. Rose is also the Associate Curator for the Delfina Foundation’s Collecting as Practice programme where she developed the groundbreaking programme that looks at the politics and economics of global collections.

Rose’s current curatorial activities have developed following a decade of experience working with public organisations throughout the UK and in particular working closely with artists to commission for non-gallery situations. This includes as Curator for Art on the Underground, and Education Projects Curator at the Serpentine Gallery. Rose holds a BA in Philosophy and Art History, and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. Finally, Rose is currently a PhD candidate in Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where her research focuses on curatorial frameworks for performance art in, and out, of the art market.

Rose Lejeune is Curator of performing arts programme “In the Round”, Abu Dhabi Art 2020.

As if harnessing the subconscious, Maitha Abdalla’s work oscillates between the diaphanous, vibrant and surreal, and is always marked by an atmosphere of reminiscence and nostalgia. Often evolved into series articulating strong cultural narratives, her paintings sculptures and performance works are assemblages of memory, travel and human interactions. Informed by exchanges and experiences, her socially driven commentaries on the human condition reveal astute, intuitive observations on the world around her, in a narrative form. A particularly influential encounter was with the children of an orphanage, where Maitha taught English and art. The motifs of childhood began to permeate her work after this time, becoming an eloquent vernacular in which she further explores the difference between the imaginary and the real; mapping the liminal space between these interconnected worlds, she plays out many questions of social and cultural identity.

Maitha Abdalla is Artist for the Performance In the Round curated by Rose Lejeune, Abu Dhabi Art 2020.

Raed Yassin (born 1979, Beirut) is an artist and musician. He graduated from the theater department at the Insitute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003, and since then has developed his conceptual practice through multiple mediums such as video, sound, photography, text, sculpture and performance. Yassin’s work often originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within a collective history, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. He was a resident artist at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2008-2010), the Delfina Foundation, London (2010 & 2014), Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2015), and is a recipient of the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2012). As a musician, he is one of the organizers of the Irtijal Festival for Experimental Music (Beirut), and has released several solo music albums, as well as part of groups such as “A” Trio and PRAED. In 2009, he founded his independent music label Annihaya. Raed currently lives between Berlin and Beirut.

Raed Yassin is Artist for the Performance In the Round curated by Rose Lejeune, Abu Dhabi Art 2020.

Alice Theobald (born 1985, UK) is an artist working across a range of media including live performance, film, installation, music, text and sculpture to explore the divisions between stage and life and the discrepancies between expression, perception, appearance and feeling. Often conflating sentimental tropes and archetypes with absurdist humour, Theobald uses performance as both starting point and subject matter to magnify aspects of everyday life and typically introspective thought. Her practice is concerned with the desire for authenticity and commodification of emotion and what this might say about empathy, aspiration and how we (mis)communicate. Fluctuating between script and improvisation, her work highlights the unstable relationship between art, communication and representation by referencing the hybrid nature of their construction through repetition and the metaphorical potential of language, image, sound and action.

Recent exhibitions include What Not To Wear Out My Soul, Art Night, London; We May Believe or We May Never Know, The White House CREATE, Dagenham; It’s Not Who You Are it’s How You Are, Baltic, Gateshead. She has also shown at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; Pilar Corrias, London; Lisson Gallery, London; Focal Point, South-end; The Chisenhale, London; Gasworks, London; Baro Galeria, Sao Paulo. Theobald has held residencies at the British Art Council, Muscat; La Salle, Singapore; Solaris, Bordeaux. She is co-founder of music/artist-collective Ravioli Me Away - In 2019 they produced a UK touring ‘Alt-Opera’.

Alice Theobald is Artist for the Performance In the Round curated by Rose Lejeune, Abu Dhabi Art 2020.

Multimedia artist Nástio Mosquito is known for performances, videos, music and poetry that show an intense commitment to the open-ended potential of language.
Easily misread as a kind of world weariness, it is the extraordinary expression of an urgent desire to engage with reality at all levels.

Nástio Mosquito is Artist for the Performance In the Round curated by Rose Lejeune, Abu Dhabi Art 2020.