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Dr Leila Nassereldein Curator & Artistic Director · Writer · Critical TheoristExhibitions · Artistic Commissioning · Public Programmes · Institutional Strategy Dr Leila Nassereldein is a British curator and artistic director of Sudanese patrilineage, writer and critical theorist based between London and Cairo and working internationally. Her research-led practice moves across contemporary art, academia, cultural…
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Lead Curator, Collective Care, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2024 As Lead Curator of Collective Care, Dr Leila Nassereldein shaped the presentation of Charlotte Hodes’s Conversations en Plein Air through a considered process of selection and deselection across the artist’s intricate papercuts and hand-painted porcelain works. Created in the wake of the pandemic, Hodes’s papercuts…
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Lead Curator and Commissioner of Island Racing, Fashioning Frequencies, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2025 As lead curator of Fashioning Frequencies, Dr Leila Nassereldein commissioned Studio GKZ – GAIKA Tavares and Jessica Au – to create Island Racing, a major new installation bringing fashion, gaming, sound, motorcycle culture and cinematic world-building into a speculative Caribbean…
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Leila Nassereldein curated Turner Contemporary’s 2021 presentation of Steve McQueen’s Ashes, coordinating the Tate loan and directing the transport and installation of its two-channel projection and sound system under Covid restrictions. Working closely with McQueen’s studio, she authored the full interpretive framework for the exhibition. The installation holds two temporalities in tension: the radiant footage…
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Creative Director, Curator, Producer and Community Programme Developer: Dr Leila Nassereldein Nana’s House was conceived, produced and curated by Dr Leila Nassereldein as an immersive installation exploring the everyday histories of east London through the domestic space of the living room. Nassereldein initiated the project through an open call, recruiting four community co-curators – Pallavi…
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Commissioned Essayist, Women Portraits: Trades & Professions, Gallery Oldham, 2026 Commissioned by Charlotte Hodes, Dr Leila Nassereldein wrote the opening essay for the catalogue accompanying Women Portraits: Trades & Professions, her major solo exhibition at Gallery Oldham. Bringing together intricate papercuts and ceramic vessels, the exhibition constructs imagined portraits of women through the tools, gestures…
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Lead Curator and Commissioner, Fashioning Frequencies, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2025 As the Curator of Fashioning Frequencies, Dr Leila Nassereldein commissioned Deborah Carnegie to extend research begun during her MA into a substantial new body of work for public exhibition. Working closely with the artist, Nassereldein supported the development of an archive of more…
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Lead Curator, Collective Care, London College of Fashion, UAL, 202 As the curator of Collective Care, Dr Leila Nassereldein developed the exhibition form of Dr Mila Burcikova’s Life in Clothes, a practice-led enquiry into how fashion might be reorganised around the cycles of land rather than the accelerated calendar of the market. Working closely with…
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Lead Curator and Scenographer, Collective Care, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2024 As Lead Curator of Collective Care, Dr Leila Nassereldein worked closely with Eve Lin to develop A Mother’s Guide to Love from a single-channel moving-image work into an immersive environment. The film unfolds within a digitally constructed game world populated by virtual garments,…
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Historical Research and Curatorial Development, Turner Contemporary, 2021 While working as a curator at Turner Contemporary, Dr Leila Nassereldein supported Larry Achiampong’s studio during the early research and development of Wayfinder (2022), a feature-length film commissioned by Turner Contemporary in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and MK Gallery. Her contribution centred on the…
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Lead Curator and Sceneographer, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2023–24 As curator of Designed for Life, Dr Leila Nassereldein worked directly with Professor Helen Storey to translate a substantial body of work arising from Za’atari Refugee Camp into a public exhibition across two galleries at London College of Fashion’s East Bank campus. Storey was named…
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Founder – Director, Artist Management, Sound Curation, Radio Production and Bookings Founded and directed by Dr Leila Nassereldein, GODPARENT Bookings is an international artist representation, programming and creative production platform working across experimental music, performance and sound culture. Established in 2024 after more than fifteen years of independent organising, festival-making, public programming and artist development,…
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Creative Director, Curator and Producer, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2024 Dr Leila Nassereldein directed Sustained Protest at University of the Arts London in 2024, a public programme of radical printmaking and alternative education developed with LCF Library and East London designer Sé Amo, founder of Patois. Across two large-scale iterations, children, families and wider…
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Curator and Senior Researcher, The British Library | London and New York, 2018 Dr Leila Nassereldein delivered a major collecting intervention within the British Library’s Contemporary British Publications team, addressing the persistent absence of zines, artists’ books and other non-ISBN publications from the national record. The project began from a structural contradiction. Legal deposit is…
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Creative Director, Curator and Producer, Making More Mischief, London College of Fashion, UAL, 2024 For Making More Mischief, Dr Leila Nassereldein conceived and directed an immersive installation with PXSSY PALACE that challenged the exhibition’s inherited terms of British folk culture. Working with founder Nadine Noor and members of the community, she approached the party not…
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Assistant Editor, Turner Contemporary, 2021 While working as a curator at Turner Contemporary, Leila Nassereldein served as Assistant Editor of Barbara Walker, the first monograph dedicated to the British artist’s practice. Published alongside Walker’s site-specific installation Place, Space and Who, the book brought together 79 images spanning more than two decades of work, with essays…
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