Exhibition run6th September – 4th December 2016Opening Night: 6 September 2016, 6pm Participating Artists: Pio Abad, Mariana Castillo Deball, Kawayan de Guia, Jimmie Durham, Sulaiman Esa, Josh Faught, Edgar Fernandez, Meschac Gaba, Simryn Gill, Sheela Gowda, Ion Grigorescu, Taloi Havini, He Xiangyu, Ho Siu-Kee, James T. Hong, Peter Kennedy & John Hughes, Jane Jin…
Exhibition run18th February – 29th May 2016 Michael Lin: Locomotion was the artist’s first solo presentation in the Philippines. Internationally known for creating monumental site-specific painted installations, Lin’s interventions redesign and reconfigure public spaces, dynamically transforming the way they are perceived by the public. A number of his previous projects have re-envisioned unusual sites for…
Exhibition run26th August – 21st November 2015 On 26 August to 21 November 2015 Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) presented The Vexed Contemporary. This exhibition includes 16 Filipino artists whose practices lend themselves to a global compass, operating using an artistic language that aims to challenge a perennial characterization when represented on local…
Image by Paul Pfeiffer (2014) Exhibition Run6th February – 16th April 2015 The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) presents Vitruvian Figure, the first major solo museum show in Asia of artist Paul Pfeiffer. This marks the first time a presentation by a single artist will take over the entire MCAD space. Pfeiffer works…
Exhibition Run6th June – 31st October 2014 Opening night : 06 June 2014, Friday. 5:30 pm On 6 June, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) opened the exhibition entitled “The Surface of the World: Architecture and The Moving Image”.The exhibition, curated by Clare Carolin, former curator at the ModernArt Oxford, the National Touring…
Exhibition run 27th February – 27 March 2014 Opening night: 27 February 2014, Thursday, 5.30pm MCAD, G/F De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts Campus, 950 P. Ocampo St., Malate Manila, Philippines On February 27, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) opened the exhibition entitled Play Studies. Initially called…
July 2013 First exhibited in 2009 at VER Gallery in Bangkok and in 2012 at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Safe Place in the Future (?) Dystopia Now Utopia Never will was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCAD) of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde last July 2013. This exhibition focuses on…
Exhibition run 8th November – March 2013 “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,/Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,/” thus begins English poet John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn that sends readers up on a meditation on art and time. In the exhibition Without a Murmur, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design invites…
Exhibition run 26th May – 18th August 2012 MCAD, G/F De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts Campus, 950 P. Ocampo St., Malate Manila, Philippines The future we conjure up is often littered with imaginings cobbled from the past, and present fears that unsettle us of certain expectations. We are all…
Exhibition run9th December 2011- 3rd March 2012 An exhibition that presents artworks of artists from across the region who have looked at the vocabulary of fabric as skin, not just as the idea of covering, and used these as sites for producing contemporary art. It will be the light from the window, the structure on…
