Museum of Contemporary Art and Design

Museum of Contemporary Art and Design The professional face of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde in the area of arts and culture. INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER: mcadmanila
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Museum days & hours :Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10AM-6PM, and Sundays, 10AM-2PM except holidays. Temporarily closed bec of ongoing preparations for upcoming exhibition Housed within the stunning architecture of the College of Saint Benilde’s School of Design and Art (SDA), the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) is the only space in Manila and the Philippines that approximates an international

contemporary art museum and gallery space. Located within an art college, MCAD’s programmes are molded in line with the school’s courses: film, fashion design, animation, multi-media, photography, architecture, as well as music production. In step with this, the MCAD produces outstanding exhibitions with world-wide standards by collaborating with professional artists and curators, both local and international. MCAD provides the experience and exposure to contemporary art works, usually only found outside the country. Its contemporary art exhibitions, projects, as well as other cultural and art-inspired undertakings showcase the possibilities of technology and new media through its internationally-designed programme of contemporary art exhibitions enhanced by an ever-widening educational platform.

Make this one count with art, craft, and community at MCAD this May — and it's FREE! May 9 — Quilt & Connect: A Family C...
30/04/2026

Make this one count with art, craft, and community at MCAD this May — and it's FREE!

May 9 — Quilt & Connect: A Family Crafting Experience | 9–11AM | Ages 6–12 with adult partner
May 16 — A Kaleidoscope World Workshop | 9–11AM | Ages 13–17
May 22 — MCADxMovingImage Screening | Noon–5PM | All ages
May 23 — Mosaic Workshop | 9AM–5PM | Ages 20+

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work spans media from short films to video art, video diaries, prints and archival materia...
27/04/2026

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work spans media from short films to video art, video diaries, prints and archival material. His reflexive and non-linear work delves into themes of faith, memory and rebirth, drawing from narrative traditions of his native Isaan region. Genres such as science fiction and adventure and myth all find homes in his work, with his personal memories creating a lens for these to shine through.

His first solo exhibition in Manila, “The Serenity of Madness”, reflects his ability to tread, and at times, blur the lines, between tradition and modernity. The resulting lyrical language dissolves traditional systems of storytelling, and creates stories and images that linger.

The Serenity of Madness ran from 18 February to 14 May 2017.

To read more about the exhibition, visit: https://www.mcadmanila.org.ph/apichatpong-weerasethakul-serenity-madness/

Piece it together this summer!Join us for a Mosaic Workshop as part of the Summer Arts Festival 2026, facilitated by Tey...
25/04/2026

Piece it together this summer!

Join us for a Mosaic Workshop as part of the Summer Arts Festival 2026, facilitated by Tey Ihvonie Maravilla Sevilleno.

🌞 Summer Arts Festival 2026
📅 Saturday, 23 May 2026 | 9 AM–5 PM
📍 12/F, The Loop, Benilde Design+Arts Campus
🎟️ Free & open to the public | Ages 20+

Slots are limited — scan the QR code on our poster to register now, or send us a message at [email protected].

25/04/2026

Visit Booth 29 at Día del Libro and get a 20% discount on the monograph Gathering: Political Writing On Art and Culture by Marian Pastor-Roces.

On 16 May, join us for the second activity of the MCAD Summer Arts Festival — A Kaleidoscope World: Exploring Patterns A...
23/04/2026

On 16 May, join us for the second activity of the MCAD Summer Arts Festival — A Kaleidoscope World: Exploring Patterns Around Us — a FREE workshop for teens aged 13–17 that uncovers the beauty of patterns in nature, design, and everyday life.

Led by Teacher Pia (Sophia Glorianna Viola), PETA senior artist-teacher, visual artist, and designer, this hands-on session will guide young creatives in building their very own kaleidoscopes while developing a deeper appreciation for the world around them.

🌞 Summer Arts Festival 2026
📅 Saturday, 16 May 2026 | 9–11 AM
📍 12/F, The Loop, Benilde Design+Arts Campus
🎟️ Free & open to the public | Ages 13–17

Slots are limited — scan the QR code on our poster to register now, or send us a message at [email protected].

23/04/2026

Get a discount of 20% for the exhibition catalog of Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern at via .ph!

Día del Libro 2026
25 April 2026
9:00 AM–11:00 PM
Booth 29, Ayala Triangle Gardens, Makati

In her essay “Technologies of Uncertainty,” Leilani Lynch writes: “Taken singularly, [Haegue] Yang’s exhibitions act as moments, coordinates in the trajectory of her career alongside broader world events. Her thematic concerns often parallel these global happenings, examining her exhibition history reveals dynamics and trends, which point toward global shifts. In the case of Manila and Miami Beach, her studies into localized weather patterns, inform notions of connected climates beyond weather. The data points posited through Yang’s exhibitions indicate and urge us to acknowledge that we are no longer tracking a passing storm, but living in an epoch of climatic and societal uncertainty.”

“Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern” catalog is available at https://www.mcadmanila.org.ph/new-publication

Size: 210 x 280 mm
Page count: 168 pages
Writers: Esther Lu, Daisy Nam, Leilani Lynch, June Yap, Joselina Cruz, Padmapani L. Perez
Designer: Studio Hik
Photography: At Maculangan/Pioneer Studios
Printing: Colham Printing Co Ltd
Distribution: Hatje Cantz Verlag

FREE Summer Arts Workshop this May!This May, bring your little one to Quilt & Connect: A Family Crafting Experience — wh...
22/04/2026

FREE Summer Arts Workshop this May!

This May, bring your little one to Quilt & Connect: A Family Crafting Experience — where adult and child pairs work together to create quilt blocks and transform them into pot holders to take home.

Facilitated by Olivia “Olive Jaro” Lopez is a full-time professor at De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde Manila, teaching Textile Design, Philippine Fashion History, and Thesis, and a former Chair of the Fashion Design and Merchandising Program. She holds degrees in Statistics and Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines Diliman, with further training in Textile Surface Design from FIDM and postgraduate studies at the University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Arts. She also spent a decade working in Los Angeles in a textile design studio and converter.

🌞 Summer Arts Festival 2026
📅 Saturday, 9 May 2026 | 9–11 AM
📍 12/F, The Loop, Benilde Design+Arts Campus
🎟️ Free & open to the public | Ages 6–12

Scan the QR code to register, or email us at [email protected]

In the essay "Nation, Comparison, and the Spectre of Art" Marian Pastor Roces writes "It is hence with no great faith in...
21/04/2026

In the essay "Nation, Comparison, and the Spectre of Art" Marian Pastor Roces writes "It is hence with no great faith in art's ability to speak to power that I hope it nevertheless continues to try to do so, not the least its critics' obligation to identify the locations where criticism—in artwork and its attendant writing—sinks into the machineries of institutions that only appear to give stability to the national and the international, and to art's refined iconoclasms effective. Lost in these appearances, critical projects fail. Emancipatory ideas are overwhelmed every day by the sheer feedback loops in most systems everywhere on the planet."

Publisher: National Commission for Culture and the Arts
Size: 150 x 210 mm
Page count: 138 pages (catalogue) + 30 pages (exhibition installation)
Writers: Joselina Cruz, Catherine Grout, Resil Mojares, Demetrio Paparoni, Marian Pastor Roces. Foreword by Virgilio S. Almario. Introduction by Loren Legarda
Designer: Diana Portela/&beyond Photography: Kurt Stier, Andrea D’Altoè, Paolo Luca

21/04/2026

Like Water for Chocolate (1992) directed by Alfonso Arau will be shown in succession alongside Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985) and Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987) thrice in succession.

The film is a definitive example of magical realism, exploring a variety of dishes, such as Christmas rolls and ox-tail soup, as a plot device for each arc. Its innovative storytelling powers the narrative of Tita De la Garza, a passionate and nurturing daughter who is smitten with forbidden love.

Treading dichotomies between rebellion and love, and nurturing and sacrifice, the film blends comedy and drama tastefully.

Screening Schedule:
Wednesday, 22 April (12:00–1:30 PM) - Babette’s Feast
Thursday, 23 April (12:00–1:30 PM) - Tampopo
Friday, 24 April (12:0–1:30 PM) - Like Water for Chocolate

Curated by Sam L. Marcelo

Register via bit.ly/MCADxMI-APRIL
All films will be shown at DLS-CSB Taft Campus Auditorium. See you there!

MCADxMoving Image presents a program of events, talks, and screenings that look at culture, society, politics through the media of the moving image. Evolving from our Screenings program, MCADxMovingImage continues to explore the medium through more in-depth programming and planned screenings meant to broaden and deepen our engagement.

"Without a Murmur" is MCAD's third exhibition of 2013—and its first all-Filipino show, which opened on 7 November 2013...
20/04/2026

"Without a Murmur" is MCAD's third exhibition of 2013—and its first all-Filipino show, which opened on 7 November 2013. The exhibition brings together four artists: Lani Maestro (b. 1957), Maria Taniguchi (b. 1981), At Maculangan (b. 1965), and Roderico Jose Daroy (b. 1954).

Lani Maestro presents three works: "her region" (sound installation, 2006/2012), "mon afrique" (installation with video, 2006/2012), and "cine-ma" (installation with rear projection, DVD, 2007/2012). Maestro spent ten days in Manila overseeing the installation of her works and engaged with programs at the School of Design and Arts. In MCAD's first-ever performative talk held on 10 November, she read texts from her work "her abandon," accompanied by Jayvee del Rosario of the University of Santo Tomas on drums. The texts originally installed to enclose a gallery space abroad—were here surrounded not by walls, but by listeners seated in a semi-circle.

Maria Taniguchi's "Figure Study" (earthenware clay, 1080p HD video, monitor, plywood, 2012) is part of a larger ongoing project. The 37-minute video shows two men digging for clay in Zamboanguita, a town 28 kilometers from Dumaguete in Negros Oriental, where Taniguchi was born. The video includes a ten-minute segment of complete darkness. Arranged horizontally in the mezzanine, the clay slabs—some blackened from firing—echo the flatness and rhythm of the footage. Even the sound of digging feels even, measured, unhurried.

At Maculangan's "Terminal" (video, 2012) and Roderico Jose Daroy's "Untitled" (A**s of the Sun) anchor either end of the exhibition space and in doing so, stretch it further, both literally and imaginatively. Maculangan's large-scale projection offers an immersive sense of an airport terminal. Daroy's installation brings the outside in—soil, grass, plants—drawing the viewer's gaze across tiles and up along the wall, collapsing the boundary between interior and landscape.

Together, the four works occupy silence differently: some fill it, some sit within it, and some let it speak.

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