10 Art Exhibits to See in Metro Manila This March 2024
From solo to group presentations.
(SPOT.ph) The National Arts Month in February ended with a series of events and fairs across the country. This growing interest in the arts continues to gain more momentum, especially now that art spaces and galleries are back to their regular programs featuring solo and group presentations. Engage in experiential and experimental exhibits that run throughout March:
Check out these art exhibits in Metro Manila for March 2024:
Plastic Tides
A continuation of the speculative project Maria Islands by Rotterdam-based artists Bianca Carague and Erik Peters, Plastic Tides imagines the possibility and future of an archipelago formed out of plastic waste. The two-man exhibit serves as a critical response to the amount of waste that comes from powerful nations and pollutes the waters of underdeveloped countries like the Philippines.
Runs until March 24 at MONO8 Gallery, BLK 113, 53 Connecticut Street, San Juan City.
Lynyrd
The De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Center for Campus Art presents the works of visual artist Lynyrd Paras in a solo exhibition named after the artist himself. He is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Thirteen Artists Awards and is known for his personal approach to painting portraits and self-portraits, which he relates to his struggles and triumphs in life.
Opens on March 6 at the Greenway Gallery of the Main Campus of the College of Saint Benilde, Taft Avenue, Manila.
The saddest song is the one you cannot sing
Ged Merino ponders the unfillable void after a significant loss, which he attempts to translate into The saddest song is the one you cannot sing. The media-based works, including textiles, objects, and terrariums, serve as Merino’s “ode to longing and a willingness to render time to a future past. It is about fathom presences and the human desire to hold fast and long those we love.”
Runs until March 23 at Gravity Art Space Gallery, 1810 Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City.
Pacita Abad: Love is Like a Heat Wave
Pacita Abad: Love is Like a Heat Wave marks and celebrates the 20th-anniversary presentation of the major exhibition Circles in My Mind by Filipina-American artist Pacita Abad, held before her passing in 2004. It features some of her works on paper and monoprints, which the artist produced during her residencies in Singapore and Jakarta.
Runs until March 16 at Silverlens Galleries, 2263 Don Chino Roces Avenue Extension, Makati City.
Ripples Across Bodies
In celebration of National Women’s Month, Kaida Contemporary Gallery brings together women artists of various practices and concerns in a group show, Ripples Across Bodies. The participating artists include Zeelah Aquilizan, Catherine Choachuy, Iori Espiritu, Aly Kangleoj, Ella Mendoza, Rosa Mirasol, Krista Nogueras, Jezzel Wee, and Ness Sheen.
Runs until March 13 at Kaida Contemporary Gallery, 45 Scout Madriñan Street, Diliman, Quezon City.
winter high through the veins in search of hot weather
The collaboration of artists Derek Tumala and Mano Gonzales questions our human existence in a world where it seems like time lies outside our perceived reality. “These rapid, shifting nodes of realities in which I embed myself transgress as virtual fantasies trying to escape the realm of truth – is this real?” writes Tumala.
Runs until April 10 at Edoweird Gallery, 140 Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City.
World Press Photo Exhibition 2023
The traveling World Press Photo Exhibition arrives in Manila to showcase some of the most significant events that transpired in 2022 through photographs. The 2023 edition centers around the theme of press freedom and includes photographs of Filipino winners Kimberly dela Cruz (“Death of a Nation”) and Hannah Reyes Morales (“Home for the Golden Gays”).
Runs until March 17 at 11/F School of Design and Arts, College of Saint Benilde, Taft, Manila.
Art in the Park 2024
The annual Art in the Park returns this March at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Makati City, brought by the same organizers of Art Fair Philippines at the Ayala Link car park. The fair is open to the public and will feature special exhibits from the artists Demi Padua, Pepe Delfin, and Clarence Chun.
Opens on March 17 at the Jaime Velasquez Park, Salcedo Village, Makati City.
Drawings of Love, Hate, and Pained Abiding
In commemoration of the 1986 EDSA revolution, visual artist Jose Tence Ruiz showcases a series of original drawings—some dating back to the 1980s and employing the use of ink on bristol board. He “puts together pieces that work as historical bullet-points that the artist footnotes with recent oil drawings on canvas.”
Runs until March 25 at vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery, 3/F Estancia Mall East Wing, Pasig City.
Slow burn 37°
This curatorial and research project brings together Jaekyung Jung, Derek Tumala, Veejay Villafranca, and Buen Calubayan in an exhibit of works representing our shared experience of the planetary and cosmic states that determine our futures. It attempts to demonstrate “that something is amiss in the physical self or the planetary realm” by contemplating heat and our capacity to endure it.
Opens on February 29 at 1/F Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman.