CCP Visual Arts & Museum

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!

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. #culturalcenterphilippines #culturalcenterph

“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: /arts-and-leisure/2026/04/22/744460/what-is-the-state-of-visual-arts-today #culturacenterph #culturalcenterofthephilippines

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. #EarthDay #EarthDay2026

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”. #NationalLiteratureMonth #BuwanNgPanitikan #JoseGarciaVilla

📣 JOIN THE CCP VISUAL ARTS AND MUSEUM DIVISION! The Cultural Center of the Philippines Visual Arts and Museum Division (VAMD) is looking for a Senior Culture and Arts Officer! Interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit the documents listed in the image to the CCP Human Resource Services Division or email at [email protected] on or before April 24, 2026. 📌More information: http://bit.ly/3QEIC6Q #CulturalCenterofthePhilippines #culturalcenterph #CCPVisualArtsAndMuseumDivision #hiring

Please be advised that the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division office will be closed tomorrow, 9 April 2026, in observance of Araw ng Kagitingan. Office operations will resume on Friday, 10 April 2026. This featured artwork from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum Collection is a collagraph by printmaker Rhoda Recto, titled “Tensions”. The lack of color evokes a somber tone, with lines trailing off to the side vaguely resembling a rippling reflection in a puddle of water. How does this artwork make you feel? Comment below!

[HOLIDAY ADVISORY] Please be advised that the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division office will be closed from 2-6 April 2026 in observance of the Holy Week holidays. Regular office operations will resume on 7 April 2026. This featured artwork is from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum (21AM) ethnography collection, the second of fourteen relief sculptures depicting the Stations of the Cross, commissioned for the exhibition “Pahiyas: A Philippine Harvest at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival,” held in Washington DC in 1998. Have a meaningful holiday!

Artifacts from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum’s ethnography collection are on display in “Babae, Babaylan: Equality in Power, Balance in Spirit”, an exhibit prepared by the CCP Gender and Development Committee for National Women’s Month! ✨ These garments and ornaments demonstrate the exceptional craftsmanship of artisans from various Filipino ethnolinguistic groups, showing different weaving techniques and meticulous beadwork, and working with unique materials like shells, coins, and bells. #NWMC2026 #CCPVAMD #CulturalCenterofthePhilippines #CCP #VAMD

Happy National Women’s Month! This 21st of the month, we are featuring Imelda Cajipe-Endaya’s 1979 work titled “Mga Ninuno VI” from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum (21AM) collection. Utilizing various printmaking techniques such as photoengraving, etching, serigraphy, and collagraphy, she produced the series “Mga Ninuno” using images from historical sources such as the Boxer Codex (an illustrated manuscript from the late 16th century containing illustrations of Filipino natives), the Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Española y Tagala (considered the first printed book in the Philippines in 1593), and painter Damian Domingo’s albums. Imelda Cajipe-Endaya’s artistic practice explores themes of cultural identity, the plight of the Filipina, and other social and political issues from a feminist perspective. In 1987, her involvement in resistance movements with fellow women visual artists led to the founding of the art collective KASIBULAN (Kababaihan sa Sining at Bagong Sibol na Kamalayan). Through exhibitions and other artistic activities, they aim to “effect an understanding of the collective consciousness of Filipino women from which ... transformation can begin by giving a sense of empowerment rooted on the Babaylan tradition”, echoed in the 2026 theme of National Women’s Month, “Lead like the Babaylans, Filipinas!” To learn more about Imelda Cajipe-Endaya and her work, you may visit the CCP Encyclopedia of Art at https://epa.culturalcenter.gov.ph. #NWMC2026 #CCPVAMD #CulturalCenterofthePhilippines #CCP #VAMD

Happy International Women’s Day! 💜 In honor of the occasion, we present a throwback feature of the exhibition “Woman: Thesis and Antithesis”, which was on view at Yuchengco Museum back in 2023, from 21 March to 24 June. Selected pieces from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum (21AM) Collection were displayed under two themes: “Women In Society”, which demonstrated how woman as a subject was depicted in art, and in comparison “Women Expressions”, with works all by women artists, which showed their experiences, perspectives, and advocacies. #IWD2026 #NWMC2026 #CCPVAMD #CulturalCenterofthePhilippines #CCP #VAMD

EXHIBITION EXTENDED: “A Synergy of Ventures: The Postwar Art Scene” at the Ateneo Art Gallery is now on view until 25 April 2026! Highlighting the evolution of Philippine modern art in the postwar period, the exhibition includes two pieces from the CCP 21st Century Art Museum (21AM) Collection. You may visit the exhibit from Monday to Saturday at the Mr & Mrs Ching Tan Gallery and Mr & Mrs Chung Te Gallery in the Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing of Areté, at the Ateneo de Manila University. Viewing hours are from 9 AM to 5 PM. Don’t miss it! #PhilippineArt #ASynergyOfVentures #CCPVAMD #CulturalCenterofthePhilippines #CCP