Johanna Zanon

Johanna Zanon is the new resident of BoSA - Briefing on Soft Arts project. At CIMO, Johanna will continue her research on the sound of fashion, with a special focus on sounding the fashion archive. To do so, Johanna will build on her latest exhibition as an independent curator, The Sighing Sound of Lips Unsatisfied (2025) at Telemark Kunstsenter in Norway. The exhibition explored the sound of fashion through the works of nine artists, fashion practitioners, and artistic researchers – most of which were new productions. They engaged with the rich and complex sounds of wearing, making, and selling garments, questioning which hearing and listening practices are at play in contemporary fashion. During her stay at CIMO, Johanna will reflect on the exhibition format as a method to think through fashion theory. How can fashion exhibitions contribute to theoretical inquiry and how to harness their analytical potential? Johanna will also confront the impossibility to reconcile the systematic approach that theory requires with the open-endedness that characterizes the curation of new works. She will ponder whether messing with theory can nevertheless prove to be a fruitful attitude towards both theory and curatorial practice. In total, she will assess the opportunities and limits of attuning research epistemologies as they relate to disciplinarity with curatorial strategies. 📢📢📢 Join us for a talk with Johanna Zanon 🔔16/1 at 7pm🔔 📸 Aliona Paz Project supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media, City of Zagreb and Foundation Kultura Nova

Johanna Zanon October 16 (Full day) October 17 (Full day) October 18 (Full day) Johanna will contribute to the discursive context of the festival, moderate some of the interventions, and foster conversations among participants and audiences More infromation about program: http://umede.lt/program-2025/

Audiovisual documentation of the exhibition The Sighing Sound of Lips Unsatisfied to encapsulate its sonic dimension🎧💓 Fragments of works by @brandon_gercara @thorsenelisabeth @vidmina_stasiulyte @harrietfoyster @haikwithus @sivstoldal @sofie_hviid_vinther @dies3 @claramosconi Curator: @johlaconcierge Visual design: @veratfgomes Photo & video: @alionapaz_com @telemarkkunstsenter

Book a Laptop Session with Johanna Whether you would like to present your work, get feedback on your portfolio or simply have an informal chat, you are welcome to book a Laptop Session with Kiosken’s curator in residency Johanna Zanon. Each session is 30 minutes long, with 8 sessions available between 10-13 on both Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th of June at Kiosken (C. Sundts gate 36). To book in, email: Zanon.johanna[a]gmail.com with the subject heading «Laptop Session» and your preferred booking time. Image 1 by @aliona_paz Image 2 by Håvard Holmefjord Kiosken Studio residency program is supported by Bergen Kommune, @kulturraadet and @vestlandfylke

🎧🩷 Doc. photos of The Sighing Sound of Lips Unsatisfied, curated by @johlaconcierge at @telemarkkunstsenter Artists: Brandon Gercara, Clara Mosconi, Elisabeth Thorsen, Harriet Foyster, Ida Falck Øien, Siv Støldal, Sofie Hviid Vinther, Therese Næss Diesen, Vidmina Stasiulyte

Johanna Zanon June 2025 Kiosken Studio resident June 6—28 Transforming Kiosken into a research lab, curator & writer Johanna Zanon explores experimental curatorial strategies and non-conventional art writing. She’ll investigate where research meets curation, using fictional genres to write about art. Based in Oslo with a PhD in history, Johanna has curated interdisciplinary projects including “The Sighing Sound of Lips Unsatisfied” and “Critical Fashion Walk.” She’s also programme curator at Norske Kunsthåndverkere. Johanna looks forward to meeting artists, curators, mediators, writers, critics, and other art practitioners during her time at Kiosken. Want to connect? Get in touch! Kiosken’s program is supported by Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturrådet, Vestland Fylkeskommune photocredits: @aliona_paz #BergenArt #CuratorialResearch #ArtResidency #Kiosken

The Sighing Sound of Lips Unsatisfied exhibition doc. at @telemarkkunstsenter ♨️🔊 Curator @johlaconcierge Artists: Brandon Gercara, Clara Mosconi, Elisabeth Thorsen, Harriet Foyster, Ida Falck Øien, Siv Støldal, Sofie Hviid Vinther, Therese Næss Diesen, Vidmina Stasiulyte Visual profile: Vera Gomes

The Sighing Sound of Lips Unsatisfied will open at @telemarkkunstsenter in Skien on Saturday the 26th of April 👠 It has been a great privilege and an absolute joy to curate this group show in the past few months!👠 It started as a theoretical inquiry into the sound of fashion (hello Barthes!), and it has become so much more than that in dialogue with nine fantastic artists 👠 Can’t wait for it to open 👠 With: @brandon_gercara , @claramosconi , @thorsenelisabeth , @harrietfoyster , @haikwithus , @sivstoldal , @sofie_hviid_vinther , @dies3 , @vidmina_stasiulyte 👠 Visual design: @veratfgomes 👠

Open call for the 3rd festival and symposium is out until April 14th! More www.umede.lt The festival will explode on October 16-19th, 2025 at @sodas2123 , Vilnius, Lithuania in collaboration with @vda.famm Festival curators: Vytautas Michelkevičius, @gailegriciute , @ignaspavliukevicius Contributing curators: Nazaré Soares @whitemirroroddities , Johanna Zanon @johlaconcierge , Katažyna Jankovska @kat.jankovska and others, facilitator Emilija Zakarauskaitė @konspektuojanti Imagery: @ignaspavliukevicius

I wrote a book in a book! I’m still surprised that nobody tried to stop me 😀 What happened, you ask, when I got carte blanche to write about textile art as a curator? I’m glad you asked: I took the «Choose Your Own Adventure» format as a blueprint to write a series of fictional curatorial endeavours marked by obstacles, friendships, and (many) textile works. Many thanks to my curators in crime: Andreas Hoffmann @arcticculturelab , Anne Szefer Karlsen @anneszeferkarlsen , Heather Jones @heatherirenejones , Lea Vene @leavene , and Martina Petrelli @limoncellosquad . I’m forever grateful for the time we shared in Bergen, Łodż, Warsaw, and since then. If you want to nerd out, you can now «Curate Your Own Textile Art Exhibition». It’s part of the publication “Entangled - Texts on Textiles”, which derived from The Community of Writers. Editor: Anne Szefer Karlen Design: Kseniia Kovtaniuk

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