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'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) In London? Keep up to speed with her art & residency space: Worlding (co-founded with artist Diogo Pimentão) Craving an art gift? Visit: Worlding's Boutique.
Episodes
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 replaced—and what this means for art criticism, artistic quality assessment, curatorial etiquette, and the future of art evaluation itself. What is art criticism actually for? And where d...
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–bear new forms of being human? Or is does it spotlight you, art wanderer? The self-help book "Tiny Experiments " by Anne-Laure Le Cunff sparked this art question: why did it excite such a med...
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 in a book? This issue hides a bigger one: how do you experience art if you live in a country far from the big museums and collections? Our host gets candid and starts with a personal a...
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" and "wander"? In a nutshell, are we in need of art digital hygiene? Is Art Wonderment the response to the decline of 20th century art criticism? As ever, Joana gets candid and exposes her own j...
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 statement? But then, why does it intersect with a cliché of sexual desire, the cowboy? Enter artists Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke, intellectual Sylvère Lotringer, experimental art, the New York art scene of ...
Isn't art trepidation about failing to spot artistic quality? Art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves suggests that Proust's magnum opus tackles this particular art anxiety. So, how can art appreciation in his book "In Search of Lost Time" enlighten us about contemporary art judgements of artistic quality? Is it worth still asking how to spot a masterpiece? Perhaps the question may be: how do we recognise talent, rather than artis...
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: can art and technology have a balanced relationship? What effect do their outcomes have on us, the spectators? Will art and literature bring us a sobering reckoning? "The Invention of Morel" ...
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 creative flow gendered? Do female artists and writers have direct access to it? Is it possible for them to hold it, uninterrupted?
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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, art writer and curator, Joana P. R. Neves, tests this notion with a performance of sorts: reading one of her texts about the modernist writer Gertrude Stein without correcting her mistakes,...
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 visual artist Laisul Hoque.
- How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist?
- Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? How can art practices she light on the value and li...
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 supporting artistic commissions for an urban space full of wildlife and industrial areas, away from the capital's most overcrowded areas.
Art Insider
is an art discussion segment with fa...
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 Jímenez, whose Substack page "
Pigments, Colours & Other Stories
" reveals new pathways into art history, art making and creativity. Perfect for artists, ideal for polymaths, superb for cre...
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 segment is as much:
- an art education as
- an introduction to art critique,
by empowering you
- with art tips
- art techniques we seldom talk about.
My Art Tools is a segment associating two art talks where an established...
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 confused with it? What are the joys and dangers of real art spaces becoming virtual ones? Or is the danger elsewhere, and the art education potentially everywhere?
Art Topic is an art discu...
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 narrative.
Narrated by: the host, Joana P. R. Neves
Joana explores an aesthetic shock involving a tongue twister and a photography by Roni Horn in a busy art fair. Maybe you’ll jump into the flow, maybe you’ll be touched by ...
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 great painter and artist of the Northern Territory explose her work and contextualise it? How do exhibitions in contemporary museums welcome aboriginal art?
Exhibition Chinwag is the original...
Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.
But... how does this apply to curating?
Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Catherine Li chose: Ursula K. Le Guin
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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 pleasures of trusting an instinct, and the resilience it takes to work creatively. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
The guests: Anouk Mercier (UK + FR) and Marina Roca Díe (SP).
In an endearingly ...
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, What is art for? Contemporary artists on their inspirations, influences and disciplines (2025, Heni), stems from it.
Art Insider is an interview segment with fascinating figures of the art field...
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 fields to visit and discuss the work of an artist through their solo exhibition.
Guest: Susie Ridell Co-Producer and co-Host of the Podcast Limited Time Only
The artist: Jenny Saville and her solo exhibition The...
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