EXHIBITIONISTAS CELEBRATES ONE YEAR OF PODCASTING! 🍌🍌🍌

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And now the episode. We talk about Lauren Halsey’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas and Chris Bayley. 

It's a maximalist environment that led us to a discussion about art, freedom, identity, revolution and care. It also allowed us to find out more about the myths and origins of the term Afro-Futurism, which surprised us a great deal.

To know more about the exhibition: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/lauren-halsey-emajendat/

We also mention Emily's friend, an artist using street signs in her work. Go to Instagram and check her out! @janeroerevolution

Music by Sarturn.

Lauren Halsey

We start this brand new year with an incursion into South Africa, with Zanele Muholi’s magnificent solo show at Tate Modern. 

Shockingly, Emily and I broke our own rules and actually visited the show together… which turned out to be quite productive. 

After a hilarious take on Gladiator II by Emily, we explore Muholi’s unique path into activism, photography, curated exhibitions, sculpture, and self-imagery. 

Muholi's work focuses on queer communities in South Africa through a form of what the artist calls "visual activism". But there is also self-portraiture, as the artist is part of this LGBTQIA+ diverse fabric. For Muholi, their use of the pronouns they/them goes way beyond gender identity. It recognises past histories, visible and invisible, and identity as multitude. Muholi says ‘There are those who came before me who make me.’

To know more about the exhibition: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/zanele-muholi

You can follow them on Instagram too: @muholizanele

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Music by Sarturn. 

Zanele Muholi

We’re wrapping up 2024 with a friends & family celebration.

And what a year it has been: Exhibitionistas was born.

So, to celebrate kinship of all kinds through art, we decided to invite a special guest who has been steeped in art since birth, Joana’s daughter, artist and dancer Constança Saturnino.

How does growing up with an artist and a curator influence your idea of art?

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You can also check out Constança's work on Instagram: @saturn.conch

Check out her handpoke tattoo Instagram: @field.trail

Or her website: https://www.constancasaturnino.com

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Music by Sarturn.

Festivities Episode (with Surprise Guest) ✨

We are thrilled to welcome Stephen Ellcock to the podcast during his press tour for the book Elements, which completes a trilogy with The Cosmic Dance (2022) and Underworlds (2023), all published by Thames and Hudson. This time, he has gathered images around the ancestral notion of “the elements”, seen through the contemporary lens of sustainability and the impending climate tragedy.

Is the book an exhibition? And if so, what kind? There is a mystery underlying these questions  which is the statuts and power of images in their different spaces such as galleries or publications. However, this episode is also an opportunity to get to know the image alchemist Stephen Ellcock a bit more.

If you don't know Stephen Ellcock's instagram account yet, you should: @stephenellcock

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Music by Sarturn.

Can a book be an exhibition? Guest #2: Stephen Ellcock

Believe it or not, this is the first episode dedicated to an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, a brutalist building Joana and Emily love so much.

And what better way to start than with the immersive experience of Haegue Yang’s solo show? Even the threshold between the hall and the exhibition space is a happening in “Leap Year”, the first survey of the South Korean artist in the UK, open from 9 October 2024 to 5 January 2025.

This episode was recorded during the week, late in the afternoon, rather than in our usual time (the early hours of a quiet Sunday) so it may be infused with a certain chaotic energy. Or was it the sensory fest of Yang’s art? Tune in to decide for yourself.

To know more about the exhibition: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/haegue-yang-leap-year/

Follow Haegue yang on Instagram: @yanghaegue

To see images of the exhibition go to our Instagram account: @exhibitionistas_podcast

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Music by Sarturn.

Haegue Yang

This episode is dedicated to beloved and prematurely deceased American artist Mike Kelley. The Tate Modern has set up an impressive retrospective, those once-in-a-lifetime exhibitions that you cannot miss if you're in town. So we decided to dig in and bring it to you if you can't make it and enhance your experience if you did.

There are opinions, feelings, stories and a cacophonous experience that will leave no one indifferent.  Jack White finally makes an appearance again as we had once promised! 

Joana and Emily introduce you to the universe of Mike Kelley, of anarchist and punk teenage and young adult years, who ceaselessly poked at the overwhelming and overpowering world of entertainment. Then they move on to his academic life and career achievements, always marked by a rebellious streak consistently visible in his work about the traps of memory, the failings of education and psychology, and the fine line between fiction and reality.

For more about Ghost and Spirit @Tate Modern: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/mike-kelley-ghost-and-spirit

For more about Mike Kelley: https://mikekelleyfoundation.org/grants/overview

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Music by: Sarturn



Mike Kelley

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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Music by @Saturn





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!

We visit exhibitions so that... you have to! Or so that you can vicariously visit them through us. This is a podcast created by contemporary art curator Joana P. R. Neves about solo exhibitions, which are an opportunity to find out more about an artist's body of work. 

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This is an independent podcast, so it is up to you, dear listener with some pocket money, to keep it going.

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This is a conversational podcast. For the pleasure of a good chin wag, Joana P. R. Neves invites people who are involved in exhibition-making and exhibition-going to bring contrasting views: professional versus art lover, different expertises in the art world, or simply a generation gap. 

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Contact us : exhibionistaspod@gmail.com

Music: Sarturn