Bliss on Bliss Art Projects

The Buklod forum in Venice adapted to live conditions during protests at the Venice Biennale Arsenale and subsequent road closures on Via Garibaldi. The artist-led gathering shifted from a scheduled report back meeting into an impromptu, DIY pop-up storytelling presentation inside an Airbnb. Participants activated the bedroom, living room, and kitchen into social spaces, a temporary sites displaying new artworks, fragments, and works-in-progress.The event concluded with a traditional Filipino karaoke session. This iteration of Buklod brought together Filipino artists, curators, and cultural workers traveling from New York, Canada, London, the Netherlands, Colombia, Vienna, Berlin, and the Philippines, with last-minute moderation by curator Jomar @jomscuartero Maraming Salamat! Mabuhay tayong lahat!🙌❤️‍🔥🙌 This initiative is made possible by the support of @blissonbliss @transnational.movement @laundromat_proj 🙏🏾

Get @reshare_app • @annakhimasia_art Enjoyed some more intimate moments too @labiennale Pop up with Bliss on Bliss Art Projects (2) Hanging with some Canadians (2) - should have taken more photos. Thank you @annakhimasia_art for@coming y. Hope@to stay in touch

Buklod Forum 2026: Reportback on Social Practice in the Diaspora Buklod Forum is an artist-led gathering dedicated to socially engaged practice, fostering dialogue and knowledge-sharing around collaborative, participatory, and community-based artistic work. The 2026 edition revisits these conversations through the lens of diaspora, examining how artists negotiate personal and cultural histories within dominant institutional narratives where marginalized voices are often excluded. Participating artists include Ged Merino, Jevijoe Vitug, Julio Austria, Eric Ramos Guerrero, Noel de Leon, Stephanie Misa, and Lizza May David. The forum will be moderated by guest curator Jose Mari Cuartero. The program will take place on Friday, May 8, 2026, from 6:00–8:00 PM (instead of 5PM) at Ca’ Malatin. , followed by an informal reception with drinks, conversation, and karaoke. The forum is accompanied by a limited-run exhibition presentation on view from May 5–9, 2026, from 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, by appointment only. Presented by Bliss on Bliss Art Projects, and made possible with support of Transnational / Movement and The Laundromat Project.

With generosity and gratitude, we welcome Jose Mari Cuartero as moderator for Buklod 2026, an artist-led gathering. Jose Mari Cuartero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and a research associate for the Philippine Pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale 2026. His research draws from the folklore archive of Isabelo de los Reyes, a polymath thinker of the late 19th-century Philippines, opening pathways for interdisciplinary dialogue across contemporary art, curatorial practice, and comparative literature. His art writing regularly appears in the online newspaper CoverStory. Limited slots available. RSVP: [email protected] or DM: @buklodforum

We’re pleased to welcome Lizza May David as one of the presenters for Buklod 2026, an artist-led gathering hosted by Bliss on Bliss Art Projects. Lizza May David’s multidisciplinary practice is grounded in painting, which she extends through artistic research, collaboration, and expanded formats. In her talk, she will reflect on how collaborative processes inform her work, including the recent project Nursing the Empire, initiated by choreographer Donna Miranda. Her earlier video works examine themes of labor, migration, and memory. Born in Quezon City, Philippines, David moved to Germany in the 1980s. She is currently Professor of Art Fundamentals/Painting at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Recent exhibitions include: Caring Histories, Mental Health Art Space, Berlin, 2026; Platz machen!, Wiesbaden Biennale, 2025; Close to Home, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, 2025; Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2024; Encounters of Disbelief, Galleria Duemila, Manila, 2024; Traces of Interest, ifa-Galerie, Stuttgart, 2024; Snare for Birds: Rereading the Colonial Archive, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, 2023–2024; and Schlösser. Preußen. Kolonial, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, 2023. ✨ Limited slots available RSVP: [email protected] or DM: @buklodforum

Jevijoe Vitug is a New York–based Filipino artist working across painting, performance, and social practice. Drawing from a decade as a museum guard, he reframes the avant-garde through lived experience—“guarding a collection” of intertwined histories. His work foregrounds overlooked narratives of labor and migration, shaped by hybridity and constant change. Vitug has exhibited internationally, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. He is an artist-member of Flux Factory, collaborates with Abang-guard, serves as a graduate advisor at Philippine Women’s University School of Fine Arts & Design, and is founding convener of Buklod Forum. Limited slots available. RSVP via email: [email protected] Or DM on Instagram @buklodforum

Get @reshare_app • @buklodforum Julio Jose Austria joins the lineup of presenters for Buklod 2026, an artist-led gathering hosted by Bliss on Bliss Art Projects. Based in Queens, New York City, Austria is a visual artist and museum worker whose practice spans painting, mixed media, and installation. Born in the Philippines, his work examines migration, labor, urban life, and social research through layered compositions built from everyday fragments. His work has been presented internationally, with solo exhibitions including FMLA (Art Cube Gallery, Manila, 2026), Woodside Story (Bliss on Bliss Art Projects and Flux Factory, New York, 2022), and Nomad Sanctuary (ChaShaMa, 2018). He has also participated in exhibitions at the NARS Foundation and Princeton University. Austria is a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program. Limited slots available. RSVP via email: [email protected] Or DM on Instagram @buklodforum

We’re thrilled to welcome Noel Ed De Leon as one of the presenters for Buklod 2026, an artist-led gathering hosted by Bliss on Bliss Art Projects. Noel Ed De Leon is a London-based transdisciplinary artist whose work explores DNA, history, memory, ancestry, and identity. His practice spans installation, performance, conceptual art, site-specific works, architecture, and archiving. His art often reflects on World War I and II, migration, ecology, and cultural exchange, influenced by his passion for collecting historical memorabilia. Through these objects and artifacts, he traces narratives of remembrance and connection. Noel is also the Founder of Transnational Movement and Co-Director of Batubalani Art Projects, promoting Philippine art across Europe. ✨ Limited slots available. RSVP via email: [email protected] Or DM us on Instagram @buklodforum

Eric Ramos Guerrero joins Buklod Forum 2026, an artist-led gathering hosted by Bliss on Bliss Art Projects, as one of this year’s presenters. Based in New York City, Ramos Guerrero is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines ideas of the “West” through landscapes spanning suburban California, the US–Mexico border, and tropical spaces shaped by migration and expansion. His work has been exhibited internationally at The Drawing Center, El Museo del Barrio, Knockdown Center, Beaux Arts (FR), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, White Box (NY), International Center of Photography, Inside-Out Museum (Beijing), Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery (Belgium), and Green Papaya Art Projects. He has held residencies at The Drawing Center, Marble House Project, Alfred University Institute for Electronic Arts, and Triangle Arts Association. ✨ Limited slots available RSVP via email: [email protected] or DM @buklodforum

We’re humbled to welcome Stephanie Misa as one of the presenters for Buklod 2026, an artist-led gathering hosted by Bliss on Bliss Art Projects. Born in Cebu City, Philippines, Misa is a visual artist and researcher whose practice engages decolonizing methodologies. Her work brings together multicultural collaboration, curatorial practice, and feminist critique, exploring complex historical narratives across video, sculpture, installation, and writing. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. In 2021, she received the Art Foundation Merita Prize for Artistic Research. Misa lives and works in Vienna, where she also teaches at the Department of Artistic Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. ✨ Limited slots available. RSVP via email: [email protected] or DM us on Instagram @buklodforum