Dates: Tuesday, 25 February 2025 to Sunday, 23 March 2025 Venue: Balanghai ni Ikeng Cinematheque, Ili-Likha Artists’ Wateringhole, Baguio City The film centers around “Song for The Fighters,” which was found in the sonic archive of the Popular Art Center Palestine. Through the layers of the song, in a labyrinth of sounds and sites, the…

Date: 14 December 2024 to 30 March 2025 Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Dominga St., Malate, Manila, 1004 maria taniguchi: body of work is the artist’s first survey show. Taniguchi, whose practice is largely recognized through her ongoing work of “brick paintings,” has produced…

Duration: 23 May to 18 August 2024 Venue: Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design, GF De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Dominga Street, Malate, Manila, 1004   On 23 May 2024, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila will open Heidi Bucher: and pull yesterday into today, a selection…

30 Lives

Duration: 31 January to 31 March 2024 Venue: Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design, GF De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Dominga Street, Malate, Manila, 1004   The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila opens 30 Lives, a title derived from the extra thirty lives that video players get…

Duration: 23 September to 23 October 2023 Venue: Orange Project in Art District, Lopue’s Annex Building, Lacson Street, Bacolod City A State in a State is an experimental documentary film by artist and filmmaker Tekla Aslanishvili that follows the construction, disruption and fragmentation of railroads in the South Caucasus and Caspian regions. The film looks…

Duration: 28 March to 23 July 2023 Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 5 pm Adaptation: A Reconnected Earth proposes an approach of determining the present within the realities of a changed climate, a despairing planet, and a recently renewed humanity. While climate agencies have warned that the global temperature rise this century should be…

  Tropical Climate Forensics draws inspiration from Derek Tumala’s residency at the Manila Observatory, one of the oldest meteorological observatories in South-east Asia, built by Jesuit fathers in 1865. Tumala’s research into the meteorological and seismographic archives, current data and future forecasts sheds light on shifting patterns of weather and climate in the Philippines and…

      MCAD Commons is an exhibition programme of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila conceptualised as a programmed space removed from the museum’s main gallery space. Conceived as a project to continue the expanding activities of the museum, MCAD Commons takes MCAD’s singular programming to a larger audience allowing for creative…

Do It (MCAD Manila)

Exhibition run: 23 June – 15 September 2021   The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI) New York, launched do it (MCAD Manila) online last 13 May 2021, an exhibition where written instructions by artists are interpreted anew. How this project reimagines the exhibition format as flexible…

Exhibition run15 October 2020 to 31 March 2021—Exhibition OpeningOnline Event | General PublicThursday, 15 October 2020 | 5PM [GMT +8]     MCAD’s exhibition, Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern is the first solo exhibition in the Philippines of celebrated Korean artist Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Seoul, South Korea), who lives and works between the…