Art Central is all flash and flow: white booths, selfie sticks, and quiet deals sealed with handshakes or credit card swipers. I wasn’t expecting to be called out by a piece of art. But that’s what happened at SHANKAY’s booth, where Venezuelan Eduardo Enrique’s solo presentation stood like a trapdoor in the floor.
Read MoreMetro Manila is continuing to grow as a grassroots art hub, and this April, several galleries are showcasing fresh exhibitions across various genres and mediums. Looking for something new to explore? Here’s your April 2025 guide to the best art shows in the city — or at least some great openings to hit up. Read on for the key details and how to find each of these galleries.
By the time you meet Joris Ghilini, you’ve already walked past the usual suspects—gleaming canvases, conceptual sculptures, and sleek installations arranged with the careful sterility of a gallery catalog shoot. Then you arrive at his corner, and suddenly everything feels like it’s been through something.
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Art Basel Hong Kong isn’t just an event — it’s a gravitational pull. Every year, artists, curators, collectors, and curious onlookers descend upon the city to witness what feels like the Super Bowl of contemporary art. For one long weekend, the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre becomes a sprawling cathedral of creativity, where global perspectives are distilled into paint, sculpture, film, fabric, sound, and performance. With hundreds of artworks from across the globe, spanning decades and disciplines, the fair becomes less an event and more a living, shifting encounter with human creativity.
Art Fair Philippines has long established itself as the premier platform for exhibiting and selling modern and contemporary Philippine art within the nation’s borders. Founded in 2013 by Lisa Ongpin-Periquet, the fair’s goal is to showcase the best of Philippine contemporary and modern art to an audience that grows wider annually. The fair has historically been held at the same venue: The Link in Makati City. If you’re not familiar with The Link, it’s a carpark. And as a venue, it is one of the characteristics of Art Fair Philippines that set it apart and made it unique globally.
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Kimiyo Mishima is an artist who was born in Osaka in 1932. She kicked off her painting journey as a teenager, but didn’t really find her voice in the 1950s and 60s through art movements like Art Informel, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. Put them all together, and you have a sort of street art that preceeds the street art movement by 50 years. Mixing techniques like collage and repetitive imagery to get her point across, her work was quite unique for her time. Even today, you see echos of what she made in modern streeet and pop art.
Read MoreOpening this weekend is the second interation of artist-run gallery and ast-space, ForceField’s annual super-show of works from street and graffiti artists in their community.
Here’s a look into the community art event and the unique works that found their way onto the walls.
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The lone wolf is an ongoing theme for Pasig native, Jappy Agoncillio. It’s been around a decade now that Jappy has been on the scene in Manila, and some things really never change. That chip on his shoulder has not gone away, despite the significant amount of international and commercial success that he has achieved in just the last couple of years since he packed up his life and migrated to New York City.
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Here’s an early look at Reen Barrera’s “OHLALA,” the first of three figures from the renowned artist’s collaboration with Mindstyle.
We have one of the 80 pieces that were sent to Manila before its official reveal at SDCC 2023!
Jade Suayan AKA “SYN” has been active in the Manila street art and graffiti scene for several years now, but this is her first solo exhibition as part of Art Fair, the undisputed largest art fair in the Phillipines. Suayan’s exhibit — organized by Secret Fresh, gallery of globally esteemed street culture collector DJ Big Boy Cheng — one of Art Fair Philippines 2023’s largest displays.
