Exhibitionistas │Visual Arts From All Angles

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 l...

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 fascinatin...

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 creative souls and ...

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 estab...

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 discus...

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 Joana's devotion t...

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 segment of...

What do curators do? THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF FICTION

It's a very very short text that can basically change your life.

With a simple shift in narrative, Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.

But... how does this apply to curating?

ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with contemporary art in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for the...

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 geeky manne...

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 who l...

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 Anatomy of ...

ART TRAVELOGUE is a new format, an audio/video journey with art as a destination. How does the journey to arrive at the art space inform our experience of the art work or exhibition? Does our own internal journey through life affect our perception of art? Embark on this trip with your host, Joana P. R. Neves.

Ft. Haroon Mirza, Yates Norton, Inês Costa.

In this episode you'll find out about British artist Haroon Mirza's new co...

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 corner of the field (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).

Our art talk explores

• ​The old question "what is contemporary art" but in light of queer communities and trans people.
• ​Curating strategies and innovative approaches.
• ​We...

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-hierarchical nature of the podcasting community. Looking ahead, she teases new formats and changes for the upcoming season, while opening up about the need for engagement.

→ Stay connected to the ...

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 ca...

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 bound...

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 podcast, Nick Taylor, and I, get lost, fall into the temporary exhibition through a faulty door, rush through the show to watch the timed film, return a second time because one of us went to Ta...

Giuseppe Penone is a visual 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 material or idea to its archetype. How does Penone fit into that notion? He s...