These exhibitions each in and in another country showcase the expertise of Filipina artists
As March rolls in, so do the celebrations and conversations of Girls’s Historical past Month. With this comes a rising platform for the conceptual explorations of Filipina artists—a proficient pressure spanning numerous mediums, types, and exhibition areas.
Past all-women reveals, quite a few standout reveals are at present operating throughout the nation. At West Gallery, Patrick de Veyra presents gestural works that mix printed materials with hand-applied paint and emulsion. In an Instagram put up, he describes his items as carrying “the ambiance and high quality of water in movement… reflections on the hyperstimulation we encounter as we speak.”
At Silverlens Manila is a vital present by Norberto Roldan titled, “No Winter Lasts Ceaselessly.” Operating till mid-March, the exhibit of the acclaimed up to date artist showcases his works created throughout his time in Berlin beginning in 2024, incorporating discovered objects from flea markets, which he reimagines in his specific inventive language.
In the meantime, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila not too long ago unveiled “Timeless: J. Moreno” final Feb. 27—a particular exhibition devoted to pioneering Filipino dressmaker Pitoy Moreno. Curated by Dr. Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, the exhibit highlights his reinventions of the Maria Clara robe, his couture creations, and his experiments with numerous textiles—from jusi and piña to Japanese brocades. Additionally featured are attire worn by notable figures in Philippine historical past, together with the tiny marriage ceremony robe of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and pictures of Rita Moreno’s Pitoy Moreno-designed gown from her historic Oscar win in 1962.
Modeka Inventive Area can also be set to mount an anticipated all-women group exhibition, curated by Stephanie Frondoso, promising a compelling exploration of the feminine perspective.
Amid these different showcases of Philippine artwork, we harken again to Filipina artists and the statements they make.
From reveals on printmaking intersecting with female-made literature to exhibitions that present sure feminine artists’ in depth physique of labor, these subsequent exhibitions are shows of the depth, variety, and dynamism of Philippine artwork—demonstrating that Filipina artists are making noise now greater than ever and, as a collective, are steadily rising the attain of feminine artists and amplifying quite a few voices of spirited people.
1. Isabel Santos, “Once more and Once more, Till You Consider It” at Blanc Gallery
It’s all the time thrilling to see the unmistakable visible languages of Isabel Santos. In the group exhibition together with her household at Silverlens Manila final 12 months, Santos shared that the work she exhibited had two strategies of course of—one “‘methodical and deliberate,’ the opposite, ‘intimate, visceral.’”
For her newest exhibition at Blanc Gallery, “Once more and Once more, Till You Consider It,” Santos chooses a course of that displays on repetition—a repetition that in flip displays the artist’s personal self-conviction, which steers modifications in her personal life.
The title itself has been together with her for 2 years, scrawled onto a whiteboard in her room. “I don’t fairly bear in mind the unique thought why I wrote this down,” she admits. “It modified over time or it turned extra obscure, however I do know it was one thing about me wanting to vary one thing—or consider in one thing I don’t consider.”
“Perhaps that’s how I persuade myself or how I be taught sure issues and habits. How I’m able to have vital modifications in my life,” she displays. The present raises questions on course of versus final result, whether or not it’s motion or a hard and fast purpose, or if centered on the method or the items.
“I’m working in the direction of the purpose. My hope is that I finally have behaviors that profit me to change into the artist that I need to be… or these behaviors make me an artist, believing I’m an artist… For me, it’s till you consider it, till it’s true,” says the artist.
“Once more and Once more Till You Consider It” runs from Mar. 8 to 29, 2025 at Blanc Gallery, 145 Katipunan Ave., Quezon Metropolis
2. Valerie Chua, “Fairly Pointless Issues” at West Gallery
Valerie Chua continues to enchant together with her delicate and nuanced aesthetic, as she presents a brand new pastel-colored assortment of work that blurs the strains between the mundane and the extraordinary.
“Fairly Pointless Issues” explores our society’s speedy consumption of digital content material and the fleeting nature of what she calls “our up to date vibe tradition.” She applies a pastel filter to extraordinary objects like a fish and plastic baggage to replicate how individuals current curated variations of their lives by way of digital filters.
Via this, Chua critiques how we devour content material shortly with out absorbing it meaningfully and feedback on the commodification of photographs in social media. Her course of includes deliberately flattening photographs by lowering shadows to create a stylized aesthetic that mirrors the best way we expertise digital content material.
“Fairly Pointless Issues” runs from Feb. 29 to Mar. 29, 2025 at West Gallery, 48, 1104 West Ave, Quezon Metropolis
3. Lui Gonzales, “A Tree Is A Seed As It Falls” at Kaida Up to date Gallery
Apart from being a singer and songwriter, Lui Gonzales is a visible artist who meticulously crafts intricate worlds on paper, however not in the best way you would possibly count on.
She layers tracing paper, usually as much as 5 sheets, and attracts on them with a pen, sometimes depicting individuals or objects. As soon as her composition is full, she tears the tracing paper, creating delicate edges that add motion and depth, each fragile and wealthy.
For her newest solo exhibition, the artist incorporates “photographs of private belongings with out of doors sceneries… a survey of her fast environment—exteriors of homes, musical devices, bottles of drinks, house decor,” Gonzales writes in an Instagram put up, “which all counsel the passage of time.”
However in Gonzales’ iteration, time melds collectively by way of her pen and tracing paper, making the previous, current, and future indistinguishable from one another.
“A Tree Is A Seed As It Falls” runs from Mar. 2 to 21, 2025 at Kaida Up to date Gallery, 45 Scout Madriñan St, Diliman, Quezon Metropolis
4. All-women group exhibition at Galerie Stephanie in Artwork Truthful Tokyo 2025
Recently, an increasing number of artists from the Philippines have been exhibiting on the worldwide stage. For Artwork Truthful Tokyo occurring this weekend, Galerie Stephanie, the one Filipino exhibitor on the truthful, is presenting an all-women exhibition of Filipina artists for his or her sales space.
The curation options younger feminine artists, all below 30, equivalent to Kim Borja and her wide-eyed, childlike, considerably melancholic figures. Via landscapes, Jem Magbanua presents visible explorations of place together with her distinct aesthetic. In the meantime Naburok fuses digital and conventional media, with work that present a world constructed by geometric shapes and creativeness. Thea Quiachon creates introspective works that verge on summary expressionism, with figures on grids that finally join by way of their placements and actions.
Kim Borja, Naburok, Jem Magbanua, and Thea Quiachon’s exhibition runs from Mar. 7 to 9, 2025 at Galerie Stephanie, Sales space L015 at Artwork Truthful Tokyo, Tokyo Worldwide Discussion board, 3 Chome-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda Metropolis, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan
5. Maria Taniguchi, “Maria Taniguchi: Physique of Work” on the MCAD
Late final 2024, Benilde’s Museum of Up to date Artwork and Design (MCAD) launched Maria Taniguchi’s first survey exhibition. Taniguchi is understood for her distinctive monochromatic work resembling the repetitive construction of brick patterns, which delve into explorations of programs, floor, scale, and time.
The survey options Taniguchi’s in depth apply with the collection of “brick work” that the artist started in 2008. Since then, this physique of labor has grown into almost 200 iterations of work, thus the titular exhibition identify.
Although initially skilled as a sculptor, Taniguchi investigates materiality by way of her conceptual strategy to portray, blurring the boundaries between mediums and numerous schemas of house.
“Maria Taniguchi: Physique of Work” runs from Dec. 14, 2024 to Mar. 30, 2025 on the MCAD, Floor Flooring, De La Salle-Faculty of Saint Benilde, Design and Arts Campus (D+A Campus), Dominga Avenue, Malate, Manila
6. Chris Ramos, “An Artventure” at RiseSpace Artwork Gallery
For her first solo present, Chris Ramos presents 63 artworks in seven phases, every exploring a singular theme and medium.
The primary pays homage to Van Gogh’s “Starry Evening” utilizing modeling clay, coloured sand, glitter glue, paper, oil pastels, metallic pans, and extra. She then shifts to “The Woman With Many Phases,” exploring variations of hair portraits in a multi-colored scope. A Beatles tribute follows, that includes yellow submarines and octopuses in underwater gardens, in addition to one other section of seascapes that seize the ocean’s vastness and life by way of textures made by modeling and crackling pastes, glass beads and granular gels, black lava, pumice, and iridescent mediums.
Having co-founded “Pink Optimistic,” an artwork marketing campaign for Leni Robredo, she dedicates the fifth section to ladies’s empowerment whereas the sixth section introduces miniatures in collaboration with doorstoppers and candleholders from Resurrection Furnishings and Discovered Objects Gallery. In time with Girls’s Month, Ramos’ final section boldly presents painted vulvas—difficult patriarchy and celebrating physique positivity in addition to the identification of the self.
“An Artventure: 2015-2025” runs from Mar. 8 to 22, 2025 at RiseSpace Artwork Gallery, 2nd flooring, unit 4, Comuna Bldg. A, 238 Pablo Ocampo Sr. Ext., Makati
7. Group exhibition, “Inventive Non-Fiction” at All the things’s Superb
Printmaking artists France Daffon, recognized for her signature blue anino figures, and Angela Silva, an esteemed printmaker and cyanotype artist from Negros, come collectively in collaboration with the Hanan Initiative, a neighborhood collective of ladies printmakers.
Spanning generations, the partnership consists of 15 different feminine printmakers, culminating in work all created by ladies, as they reply to the up to date Filipina literature of Katrina Stuart Santiago (“Of Love and Different Lemons”) and Zea Asis (“Unusual Intimacies”).
“Inventive Non-Fiction” runs from Mar. 8 at All the things’s Superb, Unit G8, Prince Tower, Salcedo Village, 14 Tordesillas, Makati
8. Kim Lim, “Enamel and Tenderness” at Tang Up to date Artwork Bangkok
Kim Lim’s “Enamel and Tenderness” at Tang Up to date Bangkok is a putting exploration of the duality a lady carries. In an Instagram put up, the Filipina artist describes this duality of ladies as, “Power and softness. Wildness and heat. The untamed and the nurturing… Their chunk and their balm.”
Via her work, the artist goals to seize the quiet energy, combined with the uncooked resilience of ladies, honoring the females’ capability to battle and heal.
Apart from being an inside designer, entrepreneur, and NGO employee, Lim can also be an advocate of arts schooling by way of therapeutic, as a trainer who empowers ladies in jail by way of artwork and expression on the Kapit Kulay Basis.
“Enamel and Tenderness” runs from Mar. 15 to Apr. 20, 2025 at Tang Up to date Bangkok, Room 201-206, River Metropolis Bangkok, 23 Soi Charoenkrung 24, Talat Noi, Sampantawong, Bangkok, Thailand
