Drawing Room Manila

16/05/2026

Sid Natividad - Strata of What Remains

Relics—provoked here in forms like fossils, imprints of a hand, a mannequin head—are meant to capture time as moving restlessly between the past, present and future. Natividad brings us right into the fold of time, feeling for how these objects transform, plasticize, and reproduce across centuries.

Exhibition continues through June 6.

15/05/2026

Kat Medina . - Colors of the Colony

The abstraction of colors, paints, lines, and materials is Medina’s attempt to put in crisis some of the archival images of the colonial visual culture in the Philippines, such as the portraits of the Manila Society of Damian Domingo, and the brownness of the folk found in the Boxer Codex.

Medina’s abstraction of such an archive of visual culture is to seize the colors as also a product of the political economy of pigments, which argues that every color is also at one point historically a commodity, exposing the very colorful visibility of human and non-human, animate and inanimate, as an outcome of an economic exchange.

On view until June 6.

13/05/2026

Our current exhibitions at the gallery, on view until June 6.

Kat Medina (._)
Colors of the Colony

Sid Natividad ()
Strata of What Remains

SKINS
curated by Patrick de Veyra ()
Micaela Benedicto ()
Bjorn Calleja ()
Paolo Icasas ()
Jason Montinola ()
Julieanne Ng ()
Gio Panlilio ()
Miguel Uy ()
Patrick de Veyra

Creating Dispositions
Juan Alcazaren ()
Pete Jimenez ()
Trek Valdizno ()
Lilianna Manahan ()
Studio ROT ( )
Sam Bumanlag ()


Catalogues in bio

11/05/2026

We’re pleased to announce our participation in the inaugural edition of HIVE ART FAIR 2026 in Seoul, presenting a solo booth by Dominic Mangila ().

Positioned within Seoul’s expanding contemporary art landscape, HIVE ART FAIR launches with a curatorial model centered on focused presentations and close dialogue between galleries, artists, and audiences. The fair’s first edition brings together international galleries at COEX Magok, contributing to Seoul’s growing momentum as a center for contemporary art.

For HIVE, Mangila presents six large-scale paintings exploring the relationships between the geological formation of Taal Volcano, quantum physics, and painterly abstraction.

Working across temporal scales spanning half a million years, the paintings imagine Taal Volcano in continuous states of formation. Mangila depicts volcanic activity unfolding simultaneously across past, present, and future. Magma rises, erupts, cools, deposits ash, and accumulates into landmass across layered cycles of time.

This temporal structure extends into the material behavior of paint itself. Viscosity, translucence, and drying become active conditions within the work, allowing abstraction to emerge through process and accumulation. Mangila approaches the volcano as a constantly shifting structure shaped by pressure, movement, and time.

📍 Booth A07
HIVE ART FAIR 2026
COEX Magok, Seoul
May 21–24, 2026

11/05/2026

: A full gallery and an exciting start to our current exhibitions at The Drawing Room.

Opening night brought together artists, collectors, patrons, and guests in an evening shaped by thoughtful conversations and close engagement with the works on view. The exhibitions continue through June 9, and we look forward to welcoming you into the space.

30/04/2026

30/04/2026

We began the year by returning to places we have come to know well.

At ART SG, a three-artist presentation unfolded through painting as a way of holding experience in suspension, where memory, perception, and interior life quietly took form.

Alongside it, SEA Focus 2026 gathered practices shaped by image, performance, and material gestures extend beyond fixed forms and into lived encounter.

In Manila, ALT Philippines drew everything closer. The presentation revealed the gallery as a cross-section: relationships layered over time, briefly made visible under the pressure of proximity.

By March, at Art Basel Hong Kong, the presentation expanded. Four practices grounded in material met in dialogue, while a parallel encounter unfolded through Knotting Space—a new site that opened the work to different rhythms, conversations and collaborative exploration.

Across these months, we found ourselves in familiar rooms that no longer felt the same. The work shifted. The conversations deepened. What we continue is shaped by where we return to, and by what becomes possible each time we all meet again.

We are deeply grateful for everyone’s unending support.

29/04/2026

: Sid Natividad () - Strata of What Remains

Strata of What Remains sees Sid Natividad examine time as a material force that erodes and reshapes. Drawing from Carlo Rovelli’s ideas on time, Natividad presents relic-like forms that move between past and future, where preservation and decay coexist.

Rooted in geologic time, the works position the present as a site of tension, where what remains continues to form and dissolve.

Opening on May 9 at 5pm - 8pm. Exhibition continues until June 6.

28/04/2026

: Creating Dispositions, a group exhibition

Creating Dispositions explores how the conditions of making—mood, space, and process—shift from background to subject. As functional objects like chairs and lamps are reimagined as sculptural and conceptual elements, the exhibition traces a move from purpose to possibility, where creative work is shaped as much by atmosphere as by intention.

Featuring work from:
Juan Alcazaren ()
Pete Jimenez ()
Trek Valdizno ()
Lilianna Manahan ()
Studio ROT
Sam Bumanlag ()

Opening on May 9 at 5pm - 8pm. The exhibition continues through June 6.