The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Office of Senator Loren Legarda cordially invite you to the Manila homecoming of the Philippine Pavilion exhibition from the 57th Biennale di Venezia, “The Spectre of Comparison,” opening this 23 May 2019. #TheSpectreofComparison

Exhibition Run 7th March – 5 May 2019 The exhibition is a response to the zeitgeist of the contemporary moment, much like WB Yeats’ when he wrote his poem in the early 20th century. By inviting artists whose works speak to contemporary inflexions of power, and whose practices advocate for spaces that can effectively critique…

Shirin Neshat: Tooba Exhibition run6th November  – 8th December 2018123 Pioneer St.Mandaluyong MCAD Commons, Shirin Neshat: Tooba is proudly presented in partnership with The Hans Nefkens Foundation, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Bwayatelier, and artbooks.ph. About Tooba “Tooba” (2002) is a poetic two-channel video installation that seeks to explore Iranian identity and is based on the…

Exhibition run21st September  – 18th November 2018 The Extra Extra Ordinary proposes a new sensory processor to attend our contemporary everyday life with add-ons movements and sensitivities. The title suggests an abstraction of affects shared among the human and the non-human; their correlation and disjoints as informed by contemporary objects, technology and culture. The exhibition also…

Exhibition Run12th April – 1st July 2018 Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say presents the artist’s work within the discourse generated by her trapuntos – stitched, padded and quilted paintings that she began in the late 1970s. The exhibition also offers a move away from the artist’s tendency towards self-exoticization, that of being a…

Exhibition run 7th December 2017 – 4th March 2018 Closing reception 4 March 2018 l 11am – 2pm Featuring works from: James Beckett, Hrair Sarkissian, Amie Siegel, Eugenio Tibaldi Urban environments as perceived centers are showing signs of implosion and the edges are starting to fray. Flatlands ascribes the idea of flatness to the re-imagination of ‘peripheral’ sites…

Exhibition Run 13th July – 10th September 2017 Featuring works from: Francis Alÿs, Yason Banal, Erick Beltrán, Dora García, Liz Magic Laser, Michelle Lopez, Gabriella Mangano, and Silvana Mangano There is no there Performance Schedule Tuesdays – Saturdays, 11am and 4pm Sundays, 11am The exhibition Re-enactments* takes up the issue of situations, whether constructed, instruction-based,…

  29th June – 26th August 2017Tuesdays to SaturdaysFIRST | Coworking CommunityRm 502 & 506, First United Bldg,413 Escolta St, Binondo, Manila Exhibition Opening Night Thursday, 29 June 20174.00pm – 8.30pmFIRST | Coworking CommunityRm 502 & 506, First United Bldg,413 Escolta St, Binondo, Manila Programme Artist’s Talk with Heman Chong 4.00pmwith live performance of Words,…

The Serenity of Madness Exhibition run 18th February – 14th May 2017 Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness is a selective survey of the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the internationally acclaimed artist and independent filmmaker based in Chiang Mai. This exhibition presents more than 20 works following Weerasethakul’s practice from his first experimental films to…