Ulrike Ottinger: Photographer and Filmmaker
Ulrike Ottinger has been internationally recognized as a filmmaker for many years. Her photographic works, created since the beginning of her artistic career and even before her first films, have found their way into important private and public art collections and have met with a very positive resonance that goes beyond the art scene. I […]
Great Women: Women Helping Women Up the Value Chain
Great women, through time, have helped others become great, bringing their own special power to birth children and innovations, teach, nurture, and develop a whole new generation. Great women are intrinsic to the very fiber of community and society. To mark Women’s Month this March, the Yuchengco Museum is presenting a special project called the […]
Up Close and Personal: Botong Francisco through Lenses and Letters
National Artist for Visual Arts Carlos “Botong” Francisco is considered one of the Philippines’ most distinguished muralists. He created enormous canvasses that chronicled the mythical world of the Filipino and its history, often seeking inspiration from tradition, folklore, myths, legends, and customs. While much has been said and written about Botong Francisco as a great […]
UnBound: An Australian Philippine Exchange
UnBound explores how culture can move beyond physical boundaries and the cartographic disposition of nation-based exhibitions and prepackaged notions of exchange. Using the loose metaphor of the airport transit lounge as a zone of intersection—for coming and going, notions of home and away, transience and permanence—this exhibition takes its cue from a group of artists […]
Remembering the Great Master: Works by Salvador Juban, Botong’s Apprentice
National Artist Carlos Francisco, affectionately known as “Botong,” was not only an exemplary muralist, but a person who was self-giving and accessible to the people. To this day, Botong continues to inspire succeeding generations of local artists especially from his hometown, known as the Angono School. One of the artists that emulated and had worked […]
Swiss Positions: 33 Takes on Sustainable Approaches to Building
The excellent reputation and high profile of Swiss architecture and engineering today are due not only to the quality of technical expertise and inventiveness of their authors, but also to a strong determination to pursue the objective of sustainable development. This exhibition presents the architectural and engineering achievements of the past 20 years from the […]
The British Occupation of Manila and Cavite 1762 – 1764
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the British Occupation of Manila and Cavite (1762 – 1764), the Philippine Map Collectors Society and the Embassy of the United Kingdom have collaborated to shed more light on and draw lessons from this little known event in Philippine history. The British invasion and two-year occupation of the capital […]
Eloquent Simplicity in Wood and Fiber
Wood, with its faint aromatic traces, evokes the forests from which it comes from and the entire ecological environment of which it is part. A piece of wood, carved with creativity, or incised with design and intent, can be small and intimate in scale, or huge and stable, asserting a formidable presence in its functionality […]
Select Artworks by Tsai Shiu-Yuin
TSAI Shiu-Yuin, who is also known as Arsenia LIM, maintains strong bonds to three places: in China—where she traces her ancestral roots, in Taiwan—where she received her university education and art training, and in the Philippines—her birthplace and family’s current residence. She first learned Chinese painting under Sino-Filipino painter Yang Keng-Tang, and continued to study […]
Somewhat Different: Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention
Somewhat Different: Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention features close to 150 objects by predominantly German designers who have approached conventional design in a “somewhat different” way. Curated by German designer and architect Volker Albus, Somewhat Different also illustrates new perspectives on function, materials, construction, and content references. The bookshelf, the Persian rug, the […]
