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Museum of Contemporary Art and Design The professional face of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde in the area of arts and culture. Pls book your visit here: https://www.mcadmanila.org.ph/visit/

Museum days & hours: Tue-Sat, 10AM-6PM, Sundays, 10AM-2PM, except holidays. 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. INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER: mcadmanila
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Bring nature indoors with the Kokedarium Workshop! 🌿Led by Nanay Tetchie (Tetchie Cortez Palaganas), this hands-on sessi...
10/10/2026

Bring nature indoors with the Kokedarium Workshop! 🌿

Led by Nanay Tetchie (Tetchie Cortez Palaganas), this hands-on session blends the Japanese moss-ball technique (Kokedama) with terrarium-making. You'll learn how to craft your own miniature living ecosystem using organically grown moss, live plants, natural stones, and driftwood.

Saturday, 7 November 2026
3–5 PM
8F, The Loop, D+A Campus, DLS-CSB

Registration Fee: Php 700 / participant
Capacity: Limited to 15 participants
Registration Deadline: 31 October 2026

10/10/2026

Conceived by Olafur Eliasson for the galleries of the National Museum of Qatar, in Doha, and for an outdoor location some sixty-four kilometres northeast of the city, ”The curious desert” included new site-specific works that explored the artist’s abiding interests in light, color, geometric studies, ecological awareness, and more-than-human relationships.

”Wind writings and Sun drawings”, 2023
Installation view: Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, Philippines, 2026
Photo: Adrian Ardiente for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila
© 2023 Olafur Eliasson
Courtesy of Olafur Eliasson; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Currently on view in “Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey”
9 July–15 November 2026

Join us for Day 2 of Transient Landscapes: Art and Climate Narratives, where we continue shifting arts and culture to th...
09/10/2026

Join us for Day 2 of Transient Landscapes: Art and Climate Narratives, where we continue shifting arts and culture to the forefront of climate action. Day 2 brings together art collectives, sustainable fashion visionaries, grassroots movement builders, and art-science labs to share strategies for communicating climate realities, rethinking consumption, and inspiring public engagement.

Day 2 Speakers & Presenters:
•Bayo
•CANVAS
•Climate Fresk
•Dakila / Active Vista
•Oscar M. Lopez Center
•Project Kalikhasaan
•Repamana
•TANAW Lab
Date: Friday, 16 October 2026 | 9 AM–5 PM
Location: 2F Ideation Room, Benilde Atrium Campus
Access: Register via https://bit.ly/MCAD-ClimateSymposium
Registration fee:
Php300/half-day
Php1500/one day
Php2000/two-days*
*student discount of Php 500 applies for two-day pass

See you at the Ideation Room as we explore new frameworks relating to the places we inhabit.

Join us for Day 1 of Transient Landscapes: Art and Climate Narratives, a two-day climate symposium exploring how contemp...
08/10/2026

Join us for Day 1 of Transient Landscapes: Art and Climate Narratives, a two-day climate symposium exploring how contemporary practice, art collectives, and art-science collaborations navigate our rapidly shifting environment. Day 1 speakers bring arts and culture from the margins of climate action right to the forefront.

Day 1 Speakers & Facilitators:
•Amanda Masha Caminals*, curator of the artistic programme of the Climate Biennial
•Nathalie Dagmang, artist/educator with extensive experience working with disaster-struck communities
•Dr. Marjorie Evasco, poet
•Willie Garcia, industrial designer & environmentalist
•Kerrine Goh*, Project Manager of culture360.ASEF.org
•Isabela Laura Lacuna, scholar focussed on how historical ideas about nature in Philippine literature might be extended through an ecophenomenological perspective.
•Diego Maranan,artist, academic, and activist who works in the area of human-technology interaction.
•Roger McDonald & Yuko Shiomi*, Arts Initiative Tokyo co-founder and AIT Director
•Eva Marie Salvador, Head of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Arts Education Program
•Katti Sta. Ana, artist/educator who founded the Firefly Brigade
•Catherine Sarah Young,multi-diasporic artist, researcher, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of art, science, and cultural diplomacy.

*Joining online

Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026 | 9 AM–6 PM
Location: 2F Ideation Room, Benilde Atrium Campus
Access: Register via https://bit.ly/MCAD-ClimateSymposium

Registration fee:
Php300/half-day
Php1500/one day
Php2000/two-days**
**student discount of Php 500 applies for two-day pass

Stay tuned for our Day 2 lineup announcement!

[7 DAYS TO GO] As part of the efforts to move arts and culture from the margins of climate action to the forefront, the ...
08/10/2026

[7 DAYS TO GO] As part of the efforts to move arts and culture from the margins of climate action to the forefront, the two-day symposium named "Transient Landscapes: Art and Climate Narratives" will share work done by artists, art collectives, and art and science projects that seek to address the question: What role do art and contemporary practice play in navigating our rapidly shifting environment? The transdisciplinary character of their work or approach taken to address climate change helps provide a framework for relating to the places we inhabit and strategies for communicating to the public an interpretation and re-interpretation of the world to move people to action.

To be held on 15 and 16 October (Thursday and Friday) at the Ideation Room of the Atrium campus of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, the symposium will be sharing of practices and learnings from Arts Initiative Tokyo represented by Roger McDonald and Yuko Shiomi, Kerrine Goh of Asia-Europe Foundation, Amanda Masha Caminals, artistic director of the Bienal Climatica (Climate Biennial in Spain) who will all join us online; Oscar M Lopez Center, Dakila/Active Vista, Eva Mari Salvador of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, CANVA, and TANAW Lab of the University of the Philippines (OICA Project on Speculative Design). Other speakers are Nathalie Dagmang of Ateneo Fine Arts Department, and Katti Sta Ana of UP College of Fine Arts, Isabela Laura Lacuna on ecocriticism, fashion brands Repamana, Carl Jan Cruz, and Bayo on sustainability in fashion,and Catherine Sarah Young and Diego Maranan on art and science as a way of knowing. A Pebble Poem workshop led by Dr Marjorie Evasco, and Climate Fresk offers a creative approach to thinking about the climate crisis, loss, and the changing earth.

Dates: 15–16 October 2026 | 9 AM–5 PM
Location: 2F Ideation Room, Benilde Atrium Campus
Access: Register via https://bit.ly/MCAD-ClimateSymposium

Registration fee:
Php300/half-day
Php1500/one day
Php2000/two-days*
*student discount of Php 500 applies for two-day pass

Kicking off nationwide on Oct 7 is the Museums and Galleries month . At MCAD, there is more than one reason and way to ...
06/10/2026

Kicking off nationwide on Oct 7 is the Museums and Galleries month . At MCAD, there is more than one reason and way to mark this. Do join us!

Thank you to everyone who came and supported us as we launched the first monograph of artist Maria Taniguchi for her sur...
05/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who came and supported us as we launched the first monograph of artist Maria Taniguchi for her survey exhibition, "maria taniguchi: body of work", at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, held on Saturday, 3 October at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM).

The event featured a conversation between artist Maria Taniguchi and Kathleen Ditzig, moderated by Joselina Cruz, held within the exhibition space of “Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage.” The conversation, which jumped off Ditzig's essay titled "Maria Taniguchi’s System Aesthetics: On Global Affinities, Historical Densities, and the Right to Opacity," referenced Lawrence Alloway's use of the term "systematic" from systems theory to define abstract painting that was not abstract expressionism but a post-painterly abstraction, and Taniguchi's evolving stance on the term "minimalist" to describe her work.

The publication will soon be launching in Manila!
Watch this space for announcements.

Publication: maria taniguchi: body of work
Size: Softcover, 195 × 270 mm
Page count: 188 pages
Writers: Joselina Cruz, Kathleen Ditzig, Patrick Flores, Anders Kreuger, Marcella Lista, Chus Martinez, Maria Taniguchi
Plate photography: Neal Oshima
Installation photography: Maria Taniguchi
Image post-processing: RJ Fernandez
Design and typesetting: Kyla Arsadjaja
Published by De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Inc. through Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila
Published and distributed by Mousse Publishing

MCAD Art Circle members are invited to this special event, part of the public programs of the Olafur Eliasson: Your Curi...
03/10/2026

MCAD Art Circle members are invited to this special event, part of the public programs of the Olafur Eliasson: Your Curious Journey exhibition.

Urban Farmers is near Likhang Filipino's Gallery 6 in Philtrade, Roxas Boulevard. Parking available in the area

“In this interlocution of Taniguchi through moving image and photography, she returns to the abstraction of her aestheti...
02/10/2026

“In this interlocution of Taniguchi through moving image and photography, she returns to the abstraction of her aesthetic structure, or her aesthetic structure as an abstraction, pertaining to both the visual language of art history and the cultural policy of a government that was deposed by an uprising. As she retraces the choreography of learning, which translates into producing things for the art world, she performs the role of a repeating subject by fleshing out retroactive objects in half-light. Is this a sign of analysis through documentation, or an unexpected melancholy by re-playing the theater of the symbolic order and anticipating a potentially intransigent subjectivity? Or perhaps both, which makes Taniguchi strongly placed to subject the aesthetic volition to the imperative ideological critique.”

-Patrick Flores, Strains

Join us for a conversation between artists Maria Taniguchi and Kathleen Ditzig, moderated by Joselina Cruz on Saturday, 3 October 2026, at 6 PM, held within the exhibition space of “Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage.” This will be followed by the official launch of “maria taniguchi: body of work”—a publication produced by MCAD to accompany the artist’s first survey show.
Date: Saturday, 3 October 2026
Time: Event starts at 6 PM
Venue: Singapore Art Museum (SAM), 39 Keppel Rd, Level 3, Gallery 3, Singapore 089065

Special Gallery Hours:
“Maria Taniguchi: Afterimage” (Gallery 3) and “SAM Collection: The Present is Unstable” (Gallery 4) will remain open until 8:30 PM.

Guests who RSVP for the book launch enjoy free entry.

Register: Reserve your spot by scanning the QR code or visiting bit.ly/MT-BookLaunch.

"Technically speaking it's a water-curtain of tiny drops and a lamp projecting onto the water at a certain angle. And if...
01/10/2026

"Technically speaking it's a water-curtain of tiny drops and a lamp projecting onto the water at a certain angle. And if you're located in the right spot, a spectral phenomenon similar to a rainbow occurs in the water drops. And since the rainbow is obviously dependent on the angle between the water and the light and the eye, then if the light doesn't hit your eyes, there's no rainbow. This is what was important for this piece. Without your eyes, there is no rainbow. And this piece became important for me because, for the first time, I worked with the spectator being the central issue; that is, being central to my artistic enquiry." —Olafur Eliasson, in Daniel Birnbaum and Madeleine Grynsztejn, eds., “Olafur Eliasson” (Phaidon, 2002), 22.

Image 1–2: Olafur Eliasson, Sketch drawings of “Beauty,” 1993 © 1993 Olafur Eliasson
Image 3: Installation view: “Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey,” Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, Philippines, 2026
Photo: Adrian Ardiente for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila

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