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…
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…
Constructions of Truths asks us to reflect on the truths of images which populate our everyday lives and how these affect how we view the world. Artists included in the show present work using the projected image as a metaphor for how images are projected on us as viewers and how artists, through formal, aesthetic and narrative spaces, question these constructions.
Exhibition run 5th September – 1st December 2019 The exhibition explores spaces that seem unknowable: speculative and alluring spaces that summon nature, science, and the human psyche. Constructed through contemporary installations of works that question notions of perception, intuition, and empirical knowledge, What Lies Within: Center of the Center, encapsulate the unique practices of the…
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
