→ To dig deeper into the episode's references and receive little gems, notes, and musings that didn't make it into the episode, SIGN UP: https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/exhibitionistas → For our third season, we're working with intern production assistants for the first time. Your donations will contribute to pay for their work: https://exhibitionistaspodcast.com/support-us ART TRAVELOGUE is a new format, an audio/video journey with art as a destination. You'll find out about British arti...
Aug 05, 2025•51 min
ART INSIDER EPISODE → Stay connected to the Exhibitionistas flow, SIGN UP: https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/e... → Do you want to support our third season? Donate HERE: https://exhibitionistaspodcast.com/su... → Like comment and rate the show.EPISODE: INTERVIEW with curators Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott around their exhibition "Talisman", presented by Cardion Arts in Collaboration with The Museum of Transology. https://cardionarts.org/2025-exhibition-talisman : Group exhibition of LGB...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1
→ Stay connected to the Exhibitionistas flow, SIGN UP to the Newsletter–or to my Substack . → Do you want to support our third season? Donate HERE . EPISODE: End of season episode where curator Joana P. R. Neves uncovers the richness of new perspectives on contemporary art through the ethos found in podcasting. Joana also shares insights from her attendance at the International Women Podcast Awards, highlighting the non-hierarchical nature of the podcasting community. Looking ahead, she teases...
Jun 27, 2025•44 min•Season 2Ep. 21
We have an interview episode! Gallerist Sarah Le Quang Sang showcases and promotes female and queer artists, fighting, one step at a time, to reduce the price gap between genders, the lack of LGBTQIA+ representation in archives, collections, art fairs and private collections, but also the linear conception of artistic careers. You wouldn't leave the shop without paying for your latte, right? Buy us a latte ;-) How empowering can the #artmarket be? How can a commercial gallery push boundaries...
Jun 13, 2025•54 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Contemporary art is a feast for the senses. But have we reduced art to vision? And what does the hand do, now that we have machines and automated ways of making, editing and showing images? And what are images? You wouldn't leave the shop without paying for your latte, right? Buy us a latte ;-) This episode is the second audio/video essay of the season. It will take you on a trip to a sensory shift across times, blurring the boundaries between line, image, wall, surface, paper, and machines. Whe...
May 30, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 19
SIGN UP –Be the first to know next episodes, get BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS, juicy facts + useful links. Episode...................................................................... Contemporary artist Ed Atkins ’s survey at Tate Britain is best described as an existential theatre with avatars , CGI , motion capture technology , traditional figural drawing , Unreal Engine , filmed performance , experimental writing and much more. You wouldn't leave the shop without paying for your latte, right? Buy u...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Giuseppe Penone is a contemporary artist associated with the Arte Povera art movement . He reinvented sculpture , drawing , conceptual photography, art installation , through proto environmental art with the sensibility of a late late romantic . Curator and art critic Germano Celant created the term #artepovera in 1967 to highlight a tendency toward a use of reduced materia l or idea to its archetype . How does Penone fit into that notion? He seems to have had a singular place in the Italian and...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Contemporary drawing is one of art's best kept secrets: associated with sound, language and writing, it turns contemporary art into a meditative form of art-making engaging the spectator in a poetic and existential voyage. Led by Blank's discovery of sound within the daily practice of drawing, this episode is a sonic wandering and a philosophical exploration of the artist's work, engaging with recent technological changes. How can a minimal and poetic practice face such specific issues? What is ...
Apr 18, 2025•28 min•Season 2Ep. 17
A pioneer of experimental cinema, but also conceptual technology (yes, I made this one up), Anthony McCall has built a unique place in the recent history and present of contemporary art. From the UK to the US, from analogue to digital, McCall has created a body of work as playful as it is culturally relevant. For more information about the exhibition go here . My co-host is Liberté Nutti, who you can follow here for good tips about modern and contemporary art: @libertenuti. To know more about he...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Emily is the co-host of this episode about art, transgression, female desire and the male gaze through photo montage, as cultural commentary and self-exploration. We re-visit the exhibition "Danger Came Smiling" at Hayward Gallery. A punk goddess whose image was used in the Buzzcocks’ EP Orgasm Addict (1977), Linder is an under-exposed contemporary artist. 99p glue, a scalpel, vintage magazines, and she “travel(s) in time”, to bring back cyber domestic goddesses and anachronistic deepfakes. Her ...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Exhibitionistas is a conversational art podcast created by me, visual arts curator and writer, Joana P. R. Neves, as an invitation for everyone to engage with contemporary art. Some episodes are centred around solo exhibitions; others are guest interviews engaging with the real art world beyond sensationalist auction sales and obsolete art review styles; and, finally, I also produce special episodes about chosen art angles. As an art professional with a 20 year experience in the art world with g...
Mar 11, 2025•3 min
If Hogarth and Mario Bros had a son, it would be Hardeep Pandhal, the artist whose drawings sprawl on the walls, on paper and on canvas at the Drawing Room until until the 13 April. Half auto-biography, half hybrid character-driven cross-temporal fantasies, one thing is certain, we loved “Inner World”. If you’re not in London, and you want to know more about the artist, he is represented by Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai, who I profusely thank for all the information they sent me. This time, my ...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera are a curatorial duo specialising in art and technology, dedicated to bridging digital and contemporary art. #metaverse #AI #digitalart #newtechnologies We either speak over-enthusiastically about AI or in fear of its impact on creativity. My guests stand somewhat in between, advocating for a better understanding of its potential as a tool which they base upon their experiences with artists. The latter have always been irreverent regarding technologies sinc...
Feb 21, 2025•50 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In this episode, Joana P. R. Neves and co-host Liberté Nuti look back on On Kawara's exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery London, Date Paintings (21 November 2024 to 25 January 2025 ). To know more about Liberté Nuti: https://www.haerbnuti.com/ Follow her on Instagram: @libertenuti For more information on the show: https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2024/on-kawara-london For more information on On Kawara and One Million Years Foundation: https://www.onemillionyearsfoundation.org/ They explo...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 11
EXHIBITIONISTAS CELEBRATES ONE YEAR OF PODCASTING! 🍌🍌🍌If you want to give us a birthday present, we have ideas>>>>>For a one-off donation: paypal.me/exhibitionistas [https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/my/profile]For a membership: https://www.patreon.com/c/exhibitionistaspodcast/membership And now the episode. We talk about Lauren Halsey's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas and Chris Bayley. It's a maximalist environment that led us to a discussion...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 25 min
After a hilarious take on Gladiator II by Emily, we explore Muholi's unique path into activism, photography, curated exhibitions, sculpture, and self-imagery. Muholi's work focuses on queer communities in South Africa through a form of what the artist calls "visual activism". But there is also self-portraiture, as the artist is part of this LGBTQIA+ diverse fabric. For Muholi, their use of the pronouns they/them goes way beyond gender identity. It recognises past histories, visible and invisible...
Jan 10, 2025•1 hr 26 min
We're wrapping up 2024 with a friends & family celebration.And what a year it has been: Exhibitionistas was born.So, to celebrate kinship of all kinds through art, we decided to invite a special guest who has been steeped in art since birth, Joana's daughter, artist and dancer Constança Saturnino.How does growing up with an artist and a curator influence your idea of art?Follow us on Instagram: @exhibitionistas_podcastYou can also check out Constança's work on Instagram: @saturn.conchCheck o...
Dec 29, 2024•50 min
We are thrilled to welcome Stephen Ellcock to the podcast during his press tour for the book Elements, which completes a trilogy with The Cosmic Dance (2022) and Underworlds (2023), all published by Thames and Hudson. This time, he has gathered images around the ancestral notion of "the elements", seen through the contemporary lens of sustainability and the impending climate tragedy.Is the book an exhibition? And if so, what kind? There is a mystery underlying these questions which is the statut...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Believe it or not, this is the first episode dedicated to an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, a brutalist building Joana and Emily love so much.And what better way to start than with the immersive experience of Haegue Yang's solo show? Even the threshold between the hall and the exhibition space is a happening in "Leap Year", the first survey of the South Korean artist in the UK, open from 9 October 2024 to 5 January 2025.This episode was recorded during the week, late in the afternoon, rather...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 32 min
This episode is dedicated to beloved and prematurely deceased American artist Mike Kelley. The Tate Modern has set up an impressive retrospective, those once-in-a-lifetime exhibitions that you cannot miss if you're in town. So we decided to dig in and bring it to you if you can't make it and enhance your experience if you did. There are opinions, feelings, stories and a cacophonous experience that will leave no one indifferent. Jack White finally makes an appearance again as we had once promised...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Yes! We have our first guest on the podcast, art advisor Liberté Nuti. As often happens in the art world, we are not always familiar with each other's jobs. And forget telling people you are a podcaster! (People think you are an influencer selling hair products online.) So let's start to dismantle some myths and find out more about what it is that us intermediaries of the art world do.Joana goes on this quest on her own this time, as Emily is on sick leave, and it is Joana's expertise after all,...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min
We go back to The Curve at the Barbican for the first institutional exhibition of Pamela Phatsimo's work in the UK, titled It Will End in Tears.And what an entrance Sunstrum's work is having in London! The exhibition adapts to the demanding shape of The Curve, basically a curved corridor initially designed as a buffer between the auditoriums and the hall, and now a creative exhibition space that Joana and Emily have come to love.Sunstrum involves the viewer in a revised film noir narrative, wher...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 14 min
This is a real banger of an exhibition and episode!We explore Tracey Emin's exhibition "I Followed You to the end" at White Cube Bermondsey, open from 19 September to 10 November 2024. But first we go back to the nineties, to the YBA, the Sensation exhibition, and a really hilarious Channel 4 program comically titled "Is Painting Dead?". Follow us on this fascinating journey through Emin's life and work. You will not be disappointed!For more information on the show:https://www.whitecube.com/gall...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 31 min
If this was a Friends episode, we would have titled it "The One Where Emily and Joana ask Each Other Questions". But it's not, so we decided to describe it as an origin story: we go back to the reasons why we decided to do this podcast and why it has such a distinctive format: an arts specialist and an exhibition goer candidly discussing solo exhibitions.This intro is a way to ease into this new and promising second season, and to (re)introduce the podcast to our listeners. It's always good to g...
Sep 27, 2024•38 min
This is a different kind of episode... We decided to record smaller formats here and there for you to explore a topic related to exhibitions that everyone thinks is a given. There are no givens for us, we like to question everything. And we know that unlike cinemas, or bookshops, exhibition galleries can feel intimidating. And we want you to know that an art lover and an art professional can also feel this discombobulating feeling of alienation in exhibiton spaces, which at times, prompts us to ...
Jul 26, 2024•29 min
This time we went to the Serpentine gallery in Hyde park. What a nice setting for a contemporary art venue. That walk back to the tube is always a slow and ponderous one. We do talk a lot about walks back to the tube after visiting exhibitions in this episode! We visited the retrospective exhibition of the feminist pioneer Judy Chicago, whose blueprint was a hitherto unpublished manuscript, Revelations, inspired by Illuminations and myths of the Goddess. You can purchase it online or in the book...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 43 min
In this episode we discuss Matthew Krishanu's exhibition The Bough Breaks at Camden Art Centre, a place we adore. We chat about loss, childhood, overlapping times, grief and the colonial residue of authentic relationships filled with love. We didn't always agree but that is the power of exhibitions: we shared diverging experiences, which made the episode even more compelling and at times hilarious. There a few hilarious anecdotes about 80's parenting - or lack thereof. For more information about...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 25 min
When small displays convey the biggest experiences and stories.... This episode is dedicated to Lubaina Himid's display of drawings and collages for her Turner Prize installation Naming the Money at the Royal Academy. As often, but particularly at the RA, exhibition going is full of encounters, idiosyncratic journeys, rushes and meetings. We explored Himid's biography and other projects, namely her Guardian artist residency. For more information about the project: https://lubainahimid.com/portfo...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Soufiane Ababri's work took us to The Curve, a difficult space at the Barbican that Ababri worked to his advantage and to the delight of these two exhibitionistas. The artist's work explores notions of diaspora, immigration, colonial trauma, post-colonial issues, queerness and much more. But most of all it is a delightful installation of magnificent drawings for their skilled unskillfulness and their recording of queer love, tenderness, sex and life. The exhibition is called "Their mouths were f...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Have you ever been to an exhibition that changes your heart rate, slows you down, and inspires you to take a nap with a cat? Such was our experience at Zeinab Saleh's exhibition at the heart of Tate Britain, part of the Art Now program, which welcomes contemporary young artists in one of the many rooms of the museum. We discuss the notion of quiet, how it is dismissed in our culture, and how the artist not only embraces it but also almost magically creates it through mixed media paintings and dr...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 26 min
