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, to interview people and do talks about art topics.

Joana asks Liberté about all theses things and ends the conversation on the topic of dream exhibitions. What are they? How do they impact our lives and why?

To know more about Liberté Nuti: @libertenuti

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Music by: @Sarturn

What is an art advisor? Guest #1: Liberté Nuti

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, where the “femme” is perhaps even more “fatale” than usual.

To know more about the show: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/pamela-phatsimo-sunstrum-it-will-end-in-tears

To follow Sunstrum on Instagram: @pamelaphatsimo

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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

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/gallery-exhibitions/tracey-emin-bermondsey-2024

You can follow Tracey Emin's wonderful residency in Margate here:

@tracey_emin_artist_residency

You can also follow us on Instagram: 

@exhibitionistas_podcast

And you can, more importantly, become a member of the podcast. We are doing this for free, so we need to step it up with you:

https://www.patreon.com/ExhibitionistasPodcast

Oh, and if you want to watch the Channel 4 episode Is Painting Dead, go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKHJoLG2cEk

Music by Sarturn.



Tracey Emin

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 go over the rules of the game. Believe me, you will be reminded that this is a feelings, research and thoughts podcast. (And if you think these don't go together, think again!)

Asking each other questions has allowed us to reveal to each other a few things we hadn't discussed, busy, as we were, with actually producing the episodes. There are a few revelations in there, self-explorations and we realise what the podcast brought us, and, by extension, our listeners. Or so we hope!

Music: Saturn.

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The Exhibitionistas Origin Story!

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 feel embarrassed, out of our depth, or even to make a few faux-pas.

It happens to everyone, especially, I would say, to exhibitionistas.  And by now, you, dear listener, can consider yourself as such! We are a big community!

This is the last episode of this season. We will be back very soon, with a new string of exhibition experiences, and perhaps, who knows, smaller episodes like this one alternating with the big ones. A weekly episode drop?! Who knows, anything is possible. After all, we did start this podcast with innocent and extravagant confidence. And look at us, here we are.

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exhibitionistaspod@gmail.com

Music by Sarturn.

Exhibition Etiquette

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 shop. The show was curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the gallery.

We exchanged different experiences and thoughts about the exhibition, based partially on the curatorial choices that were made and which puzzled us somewhat, although we support the ecological reasons they are based on.

For more information about the exhibition go here: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/judy-chicago-revelations/

Follow Judy Chicago on Instagram: @judy.chicago

And follow us! @exhibitionistas_podcast

Music by Sarturn.



Judy Chicago

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 the exhibition: https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/matthew-krishanu-the-bough-breaks

Music by Sarturn.

Matthew Krishanu

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/portfolio/naming-the-money/

Enjoy this new episode! 

And follow us at @exhibitionistas_podcast.

Music by: Sarturn.

Lubaina Himid

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 full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated", and it was a commission specifically for the, well, curved space of The Curve. 

For more information:  https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/soufiane-ababri

Follow Soufiane Ababri on Instagram:  @soufianeababri

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Music by: Sarturn

Soufiane Ababri

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 drawings. A simple setting eliciting mindful dreaming and sheer presence.

The exhibition was curated by Amy Emmerson Martin (assistant curator) and Nathan Ladd (curator).

For more information visit the Tate's webiste: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/zeinab-saleh

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Music: Sarturn

Zeinab Saleh

We visit exhibitions so that... you have to! Or so that you can vicariously visit them through our exploration of an artist's body of work.

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We chat from an insider's perspective (art historian, independent curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves) and an art lover's enthusiastic experience (Emily Harding, art lover and exhibition goer).

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This is a conversational podcast. We share views, experiences, and we even occasionally read a text.

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Expect deviations, anecdotes, strong opinions and your occasional pop culture reference.

Support us: patreon.com/ExhibitionistasPodcast

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Contact us : exhibionistaspod@gmail.com

Music: Sarturn