CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division

18/05/2026

Happy International Museum Day from the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division! 🏛️

In celebration, we are giving away 2 physical* copies of the UPSKILLING HANDBOOK: Workshop Proceedings and Guide to Developing Modes of Care in Curatorship.

This book was developed alongside the intensive workshop ”Upskilling on Performance & Visual Arts Curation”, and contains lectures and activities dedicated to broadening curatorial perspectives in relation to cultural work. Designed to foster community building and engagement, we hope that this handbook can be a valuable resource to you as we all work together towards making museums a space of connection and inclusion.

⭐To enter, comment down below your favorite Museum Memory! 💭Share with us a special experience you’ve had in a museum—it can be an exhibit you really enjoyed, perhaps an impactful artwork you saw during a museum visit, or even an activity or talk you attended in a museum that was meaningful to you. We would love to hear your stories!

Two winners will be chosen at random on 30 May 2026. Please keep your DMs open so we can contact you! Please note that this giveaway is limited to residents of the Philippines only.

*The digital copy of the Upskilling handbook is completely free and accessible at https://ccp-upskilling.carrd.co/

08/05/2026

Thank you for the feature, Tribune!

As the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) prepares to reopen its main building, the institution is undergoing intense “soul-searching.” A recent roundtabl

07/05/2026

Thank you for the feature, Philippine Star!

As CCP reopens its Main Building, artists and cultural leaders reflect on its future in Philippine visual arts.

30/04/2026

Please be advised that the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division office will be closed tomorrow, 1 May 2026, due to the Labor Day holiday. Office operations will resume on Tuesday, 5 May 2026.

This featured artwork is ‘The Tillers’ by Edsel Moscoso, from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum (21AM) Collection.

Have a meaningful holiday!

29/04/2026

Last 8 April 2026, invited speakers shared their insights regarding the possible future direction of CCP in the field of visual arts at a roundtable discussion initiated by the CCP Board of Trustees.

Read more here:

What is the most essential building block for the future of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in the visual arts? This question set the tone for the recent Philippine […]

29/04/2026

THE POET OF CONCRETE.

In celebration of National Heritage Month, this re-curated exhibit honors the enduring legacy of National Artist Leandro V. Locsin, the visionary behind some of the Philippines’ most iconic structures.

Featuring architectural models and rare archival materials, the exhibit offers a deeper look at his singular approach to blending Western Modernism with a distinctly Filipino sensibility, exemplified by landmarks such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Exhibit runs until May 22, 2026 at Beato Angelo AVR, University of Santo Tomas.

28/04/2026

National Artist for Architecture Leandro V. Locsin, designer of the iconic brutalist architecture of the CCP Main Theater Building, is “The Poet of Concrete”! 🏛️

This exhibition by Locsin’s alma mater, the UST College of Architecture, in collaboration with CCP and the DLS-CSB Center for Campus Art, opened yesterday at UST’s Beato Angelico Gallery.

The exhibition runs until 22 May 2026.

28/04/2026

28/04/2026

“We want to identify programs, projects, and activities that may be able to assist in achieving the objective of getting Filipino visual artists better known by international museums and collectors, and better appreciated within Philippine culture,” said CCP chairman Jaime C. Laya

READ MORE: https://www.bworldonline.com/arts-and-leisure/2026/04/22/744460/what-is-the-state-of-visual-arts-today

22/04/2026

Thousands of wood pieces filled the CCP front lawn on 22 April 2007, all connected by 10 kilometers of red rope.

‘Angud: A Forest Once’ is a graveyard, the wood offcuts representing the living trees they once were. This outdoor installation was created by 2020 Gawad CCP Para sa Sining and 1980 Thirteen Artists Awardee Junyee, in observance of Earth Day.

“Angud” is a term used in Aurora and Quezon to refer to the end of a log where a hole is bored, so that a rope may be attached to easily haul it out of the forest. The angud is then sawn off and discarded. Through this installation, Junyee highlights the issues of illegal logging and deforestation, the angud silent witnesses to the harm caused to nature.

21/04/2026

April is National Literature Month, so for our monthly 21AM Collection Feature we present “Self Portrait With Third Eye”, by Jose Garcia Villa—poet, fictionist, critic, and National Artist for Literature! ✍️

This pencil sketch is half of a face, formed by his initials J and V, with an eye that has three irises. It is said that one with a “third eye” has the ability to see things most people cannot, so perhaps Villa intended to portray himself as this “seer” with an elevated perception of the world? His contemporary in the modernist literature world, E.E. Cummings, talks of him in the poem ‘Doveglion’: “he isn't looking / he is seeing”.

Doveglion is the pen name used by Villa, a portmanteau of dove, eagle, and lion. In Villa’s manifesto ‘A Composition’ he says it to be his “true name”.