Exhibitionistas: Notes on Art
Your art wonderment podcast.
With Joana P. R. Neves.
Exhibitionistas was born to expand the experience of art into wider spaces of conversation. It's the meta-cigarette after the art-sex.
Prompted by a question, each episode follows a surprising path onto a topic, an exhibition, a book, or an artist studio, through the scope of contemporary art.
Mid-journey, "Art Etiquette" offers a short break where a new guest surprises Joana with their own question about art. Between a Socratic dialogue and a boozy chinwag.
And finally, to finish the episode with aplomb, comes "Brainstorm in a Teacup" where Joana reads notes from the week's writings, which she has described as "too interesting to miss out on, but too weird to build an episode on".
Joana P. R. Neves is an art writer and curator, co-founder and director of the art & residency space Worlding, and artistic director of Drawing Now Paris.
Check out Joana's writing:
Art Thinkosaurus (Substack)
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Worlding (co-founded with artist Diogo Pimentão)
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Episodes
57 episodes
Copy / Original: Can Reproductions Truly Move Us?
Is it possible to have a moving art experience of a copy or a mechanically reproduced artwork? Such is the anxiety regarding art, reinforced, often, by a wildly misunderstood concept coined by Walter Benjamin: the aura, the "here and now of the...
Is It Time for Digital Hygiene?!
Is digital media preventing us from accessing the most exciting part of culture? Final episode of the hiatus special series: it's a new era! It's a new episode structure with new segments!Find out more about:the unackn...
Creative Freedom W/ Chris Kraus’ Art Writing in “I Love Dick”
🔎 Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of a single sentence in Chris Kraus' book I Love Dick, simply stating that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want...📙 This book is a ride through the liter...
How Can You Tell It's Good Art? – Reading Marcel Proust
🔎 How do we spot a masterpiece? Can we really know if the art we’re looking at is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize talent? And is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness?⚒️ Are there any identifying tools that ...
Dark Side of Creativity with Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
Is there a dark side to creativity? Might it even be necessary? Are artists visionaries? Or is the future contained in the present, and if so, what will you do about it?As a an art writer and curator<...
Creative Flow with Virginia Woolf: The Case of the Missing Pargraph
Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, challenges you to explore the mystery of a missing paragraph in Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', and its significance for creative pursuits. You're about to dwell on the flow of conscious...
Art Writing versus Speaking About Art - Art Topic
ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode is an experiment in opposing writing to oral communication. It also engages with queer lives at the height of modernism, t...
Visual Arts and Fiction? Laisul Hoque's book: Babu Bangladesh! N. Atif Choudhury
ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with visual arts in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for their work. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode welcomes visua...
Encounters Along The Line Art Trail W/ Sarah Carrington, Visual Arts Curator
You're bound to get an art education with our guest, curator Sarah Carrington! Our art talk with her explores her work as director of the Public Art Trail in East London The Line, as well as the joys of producing visual arts projects and ...
Colour in Visual Arts: Eating, Touching, Making & Other Methods
For some, colour is subjective, for others it's vital. In visual arts, is it a universal idea or a local material? As far as art themes go, this one leads to a world of possibilities. Curator Joana P. R. Neves welcomes María Castro Jímene...
Visual Artist Studio Secrets with A. M. Caballero & A. Jabre: MY ART TOOLS
What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their underlying art themes and intrinsic creative processes? Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.Guests: Ana María Caballero and Alexandra Jabre.This segm...
The Other Side of The Mirror: Art Spaces in the Age of Online Life
A part of our work and leisure is spent online and so is our art. Posted on social media and even made with the help of AI, LLMs, and more, creative initiatives and art objects may now also live in online art spaces. Is an art podcast to be con...
Sculpting Water: Under the Spell of Roni Horn's Work
Have you ever been under the irresistible spell of an art work? Art Story is a shorter episode exploring an art work, an artist, an exhibition or even a concept through a proudly su...
Painting The Dreaming – Emily Kame Kngwarreye – Art Exhibitions at Tate Modern: EXHIBITION CHINWAG
What can you paint at the end of your life? How does painting feature in a Aboriginal culture? Does contemporary art culture intersect with Aboriginal art – should we even look for this kind of connection? How did exhibitions of the...
Ursula K. Le Guin with curator Catherine Li - ART BOOK CLUB
Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.But... how does this apply to curating?Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Visual Artist studio secrets with A. Mercier and M. Roca Díe: MY ART TOOLS
In My Art Tools (new segment) we look into 2 artists' tool box: what is their fetish instrument? Artists think with their hands. Let's get technical! The artist's hand will guide you through the passion of following one’s visio...
What is Art For? Ben Luke (A Brush With podcast) and his new book: ART INSIDER
Guest: Ben Luke (Host of A Brush With)Ben Luke is an art journalist whose voice reaches a wider audience through his successful podcast A Brush With, where each episode is dedicated to an artist interview led by him. His...
The Painter's Body, the Body Painted: Jenny Saville at NPG: EXHIBITION CHINWAG
How do artists paint the body nowadays? And why does Jenny Saville produce monumental images of it? Exhibition Chinwag is the original segment of the podcas...
TRAILER: EXHIBITIONISTAS Season 3.
Exhibitionistas Season 3: a constellation of 8 episode segments opening new doors onto the fascinating, thought-provoking and creative world of contemporary art. Exhibitions, Art Talk, Art Insider Interviews and more.Starting: 5 Septembe...
Voyage Into Creation Myths & their Sounds: Haroon Mirza / Focal Point Gallery: ART TRAVELOGUE
ART TRAVELOGUE is your audio/video journey with contemporary art as a destination. Embark on this trip with your host, curator and art writer Joana P. R. Neves.Ft. Haroon Mirza, Yates Norton, Inês Costa.I travel by train to see Br...
Exhibition as safe space with Visual Arts Curators G. Rolls Bentley & E-J Scott: ART INSIDER
Get an art education with our 2 guests, curators Gemma Rolls-Bentley and E-J Scott!Art Insider is an art discussion segment with fascinating visual arts thinkers and curators who lift the veil on their corne...
Measure Pleasure–Ethics of Feminism in Art Podcasting
Host 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-hierarchi...
The Power of Exhibitions–Interview w/ Sarah Le Quang Sang, The Woman Behind SLQS, The Gallery For Women & Queer Artists
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 collection...
The Texture of Art–Sensory Shifts in Contemporary Art–Feeling, Seeing and Making
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 ...
Ed Atkins’ Performing Avatars–Generative Technology in Contemporary Art–Tate Survey Exhibition
Visual artist Ed Atkins’s work is an existential theatre with avatars, CGI, motion capture technology, traditional figural drawing, Unreal Engine, filmed performance, experimental writing and much more. Architect and first-time guest on the po...
