Exhibitionistas: Notes on Contemporary Art and Life
Your art wonderment podcast.
With Joana P. R. Neves.
Exhibitionistas was born to expand the experience of art into wider spaces of conversation. It explores the sound (and visual) potential of this unique format of experimental podcasting to convey deep, fascinating experiences of art from the perspective of the artist, the curator, an you, the spectator.
Prompted by a question, each episode follows a surprising path onto an urgent topic, a unique exhibition, a fantastic book, or an artist studio. It reminds you that contemporary art and life are intertwined.
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.
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Art Thinkosaurus (Substack)
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Episodes
59 episodes
Creative Flow | The Artifice of Summer in Art and Life | Climate, Desire and Loss
How and why do art and Summer join forces? Art, and visual arts especially, show imminent change–but so does Summer and its ideal of creative flow. How did–or did not–art speak of the climate emergency, gender policing, the war–in short, of los...
Rachel Cusk | Can Men Be (Good) Artists? | Art & Literature edition
Writer Rachel Cusk asked: "Can a Woman who is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" (NYT). Our host Joana, your favourite contemporary art writer and curator, turns this question of gender and skill on its head: can men be (good) artists? Cu...
Art Criticism | Does it Still Matter? An Art Curator's Honest Reckoning
Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why critics are leaving big outlets without being re...
Art Wonderment Manifesto | ft Lao Tzu, Susanna Inglada, Fernando Pessoa's Best Heteronym
AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly at the brink of commodification–bea...
Art Copies v Originals | Is Art Wonderment Possible with a Reproduction of an Art Work?
As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible through a copy of an art work? Through art images...
Time for Digital Hygiene | Why Analog Art Wonderment is Required Online
Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does it hinge on the meaning of word "wonder" an...
Chris Kraus | Creative Freedom and Visual Art in “I Love Dick” | Art & Literature Edition
Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could this be the most daring feminist art state...
Marcel Proust | The Art Anxiety of Missing Artistic Quality with "La Berma" | Art & Literature Edition
There is a little discussed sub-plot in Proust's books: the narrator growing into art wonderment. Joana unfolds this storyline about art and life: How can you spot artistic talent? To what extent the narrator's art anxiety and art appreci...
Adolfo Bioy Casares | Dark Side of Creativity in "The Invention of Morel" | Art & Literature Edition
Is there a dark side to creativity? Can the intersection of art and literature reveal it? Host Joana P. R. Neves, an art curator and writer, steps back from her job, and into the art questions it stimulates by digging into her favourite books: ...
Virginia Woolf | Creative Flow and the Missing Paragraph | Art & Literature Edition
Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, invites you to read "The Mark on the Wall", a short and strange essay by the British writer Virginia Woolf. What prompts a meditative exploration, and how does it lead to art making? Is the creat...
Digital and Analog | Why Art Speaking (podcasts) and Art Writing (text) Are Both Important
What if writing and talking about contemporary art and life, art and literature, were two completely different things - but complementary? Instead of pitching them against each other, have we thought about articulating their qualities? Our host...
1 Artist 1 Book | Laisul Hoque | "Babu Bangladesh!" by N. Atif Choudhury
How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist? Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? Are there art questions at the intersection between art and literature? Our host, art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, in...
Curator Sarah Carrington | Encounters Along "The Line" Art Trail
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 Art | Can the Politics of Colour Surpass its Subjective Stigma?
How do you overcome the extreme subjectivity of colour as a topic in art? María Castro Jímenez, pigment specialist and art historian, offers surprising new histories of colour. Can the study of colour reveal hidden pplitics of the past, present...
Ana Maria Caballero - Alexandra Jabre | Visual Artist Studio Secrets: Blockchain Poetry and Spirituality in Contemporary Art
What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their creative process and philosophies? Even to themselves? This dual artist series inquires about contemporary artists’ studio practices. What are really artists working with today? What mater...
New Technologies & Art | 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...
Roni Horn | Sculpting Water: Have you Ever Been Under the Spell of a Work of Art?
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 subjective narrat...
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Indigenous Knowledge – Painting as Mapping and Archive Tate Modern
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 grea...
Curator Catherine Li | How The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin Intersects with Curatorial Ethos
Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.But... how does this apply to curating?Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Anouk Mercier – Marina Roca Díe | Artist Studio Secrets and a Career in Contemporary Art
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 vision, the ple...
Ben Luke | What is Art For? Art Podcasting and Writing, Contemporary Art and Life in the 1990s until Today
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 new book,...
Jenny Saville | The Painter's Body, the Body Painted at the National Portrait Gallery
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 podcast where Joana invites professionals from other fiel...
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...
Haroon Mirza | Art Travelogue to Focal Point Gallery, Performance Art, Sound and Voice
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...
Curators G. Rolls Bentley & E-J Scott | Contemporary Art and Exhibitions and Heritage as Safe Space
What under-developped skills and perspectives can queer art and artists bring to the fore? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, interviews queer curator Gemma Rolls Bentley and trans curator E J Scott about their exhibition Talisman with Cardion Arts. ...
