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Benilde Center for Campus Exhibitions, A402, Benilde Design and Arts Campus (D+A Campus), 950 P. Ocampo Street , Malate, Manila (2026)

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A402, Benilde Design And Arts Campus (D+A Campus), 950 P. Ocampo Street , Malate

26/02/2026

Interested in exhibition-making? ⚙🌱🔨

CCX is calling for interns to work on exhibitions, programs, and collaborative projects. Open to undergraduate students from various disciplines.

See the slides for details or visit bit.ly/CCX_Internships

18/02/2026

Thank you and for the feature! 💡🖼️

The Philippine Star
February 16, 2026
Lifestyle; Page C1

“You enter the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) Design + Arts Campus at the 14th floor to a mezzanine overlooking some 130 posters displayed down below on angled tables, like library periodicals. ‘Collecting the Moment: Art Exhibitions in Print’ is literally an overview of two decades in which pioneering art critic Purita Kalaw-Ledesma amassed exhibit posters spanning 1970 to 1989—two decades, not incidentally, under the watchful eye of martial law, in which Philippine art was nonetheless marching along to its own rhythms.

Seen from above, it’s an eye-catching macro view, and you spot Dindin Araneta, current director of the Benilde Center for Campus Exhibitions, as well as Gabbie Lichauco, also a Benilde instructor and the designer of the exhibit’s unique look.”

Read the full feature at:
https://philstarlife.com/geeky/501638-revisiting-purita-kalaw-ledesma-trove-art-posters

12/02/2026

Highlights from the exhibition preview of Collecting the Moment: Art Exhibitions in Print 🖼️✨

Drawing from exhibition posters across decades, it reveals how exhibitions shaped artistic value, authorship, and community—marking first solo shows, group exhibitions, and pivotal moments in Philippine art history. Though these exhibitions were temporary, the collection preserves what once passed, inviting new readings of how art is introduced, remembered, and sustained.

🗓 February 2 – March 31, 2026
🕙 Mondays–Fridays, 10 AM–5 PM (except holidays)
📍 A1201 Benilde Design + Arts Campus

Big thanks to everyone who dropped by! If you haven’t yet, come through and catch the exhibition.

Photos by Khristiandt Lerona

11/02/2026

Repost from ♻️✨

EXHIBITION OPENING | Poets of Physics
DATE: Thursday, 12 February 2026, 5–8 PM

On 12 February 2026, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila will open “Poets of Physics,” featuring the works of Aki Sasamoto, Bagus Pandega, David Medalla, Fischli and Weiss, and Ian Carlo Jaucian, as part of the Benilde Open Design + Art with its theme “Extension of Nature.”

In 1964, David Medalla presented the first iconic bubble machine, an auto-creative work he called “Cloud Canyons,” which continuously generates foam or bubbles to produce ever-changing sculptural forms that exist only temporarily before dissolving and reforming. Medalla would later refer to himself as “a poet who celebrates physics”; after several iterations of the bubble machines, he expanded his exploration of these biokinetic works using sand and mud as active materials.

Drawing its title from Medalla’s quote, “Poets of Physics” explores how contemporary artists have continued this radical proposition of art machines that examine natural conditions while exploring their capacity for transcendence. By working with scientific phenomena not as subjects to be illustrated, but as ”collaborators” in the creation of experiences and understanding, the exhibition becomes an opportunity to remind us that wonder itself is a form of knowledge, and that deep insights about our world emerge when art and science converge in the spirit of poetic discovery.

“Poets of Physics”
12 February–12 April 2026

02/02/2026

Now open to the public. 📣

“Collecting the Moment: Art Exhibitions in Print” brings together exhibition posters from the collection of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma.

Spanning the 1970s and 1980s, the art gallery exhibition posters form an open archive of Philippine art history told through print. Through typography, imagery, and graphic design, these materials reflect shifting aesthetics, curatorial approaches, and cultural conversations across time.

📍 A1201 Benilde Design + Arts Campus
🗓 2 February – 31 March 2026
🕙 Mondays–Fridays, 10 AM–5 PM (except holidays)

Co-presented by the .ph and CCX, and part of 2026 (Collectors Circle Program & ), with support from .ph

30/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited Studies for the Future throughout its exhibition run and to those who joined us for the closing reception last January 23, 2026! ✨

Studies for the Future is a faculty exhibition presenting new, interdisciplinary projects by Benilde educators. Through works spanning media, performance, design, and other disciplines, the exhibition considered how imagination shapes futures in the making. ⚙️🌱💡

Photos by Khristiandt Lerona

20/01/2026

In “Bintana: 2060,” Martika Ramirez Escobar imagines a conversation between rice farmers and scientists as they look toward the Philippines of the future. Framed through the metaphor of a window, the film opens speculative views shaped by food security, land transformation, and shared knowledge across generations.

See “Bintana: 2060” as part of “Studies for the Future,” on view at A1201, Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Mondays to Fridays, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, until January 23, 2026.

Free and open to the public.

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Martika Ramirez Escobar is a filmmaker and educator whose work blends playful imagination with deep introspection. Best known for her debut feature “Leonor Will Never Die” (2022), which premiered at Sundance and won the Special Jury Prize for Innovative Spirit, her practice often adopts a child-like lens to reframe contemporary and social realities in unclassifiable ways. Her films have screened internationally, including TIFF where she won the Amplify Voices Award, and received nominations such as Best Foreign Language Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. She has been supported by Purin Pictures Fund and Hubert Bals Fund, and participated in Berlinale Talents, Talents Tokyo, the Asian Film Academy, and the Oxbelly Writer’s Retreat..

She is a faculty member of the Film Program under the School of New Media Arts, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde.

Photo by KC Batino and Jillian Sy (AB Photography). Video by CCX.

15/01/2026

In “Metropolis,” Carlo Vergara constructs a digital non-space shaped by computational rules and AI-generated aesthetics. Familiar forms dissolve into abstract, machine-made architectures, unsettling how we perceive authorship, intention, and value. In a landscape saturated with images, the work lingers on a quiet question: does meaning reside in the image itself, the idea behind it, or the act of framing that turns data into art?

See “Metropolis” as part of “Studies for the Future,” on view at A1201, Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Mondays to Fridays, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, until January 23, 2026.

Free and open to the public.

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Carlo Vergara is a comics creator, playwright, and screenwriter whose work spans popular culture, satire, and philosophical reflection. Best known for the graphic novel Zsazsa Zaturnnah (2002), his practice moves fluidly across comics, theater, and television, blending humor with deeper questions about identity, meaning, and cultural narratives. His work has received multiple recognitions, including the National Book Award and a Urian film nomination.

He is a faculty member of the Multimedia Arts Program under the School of New Media Arts, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde.

Photo by Antonio Reyes (AB Photography). Video by CCX.

12/01/2026

“Bulong Baybayin” reclaims baybayin as a living, evolving language rather than a relic of the past. Through prints and a video component presented on a table for close listening and viewing, Tim Dacanay weaves precolonial oral traditions with contemporary poetics, staging a speculative anthology of Philippine literature written in baybayin.

See “Bulong Baybayin” as part of “Studies for the Future”, on view at A1201, Benilde Design + Arts Campus, Mondays to Fridays, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM, until January 23, 2026.

Free and open to the public.

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Tim Dacanay is a playwright, designer, and scholar whose practice bridges theater, cultural education, and the visual arts. He is the author of Teatro Porvenir (Palanca Award, 2006) and editor-designer of Telon: Mga Dula (National Book Award, 2009), alongside an active role as writer and researcher for the Cultural Center of the Philippines Encyclopedia of Philippine Arts. His work extends into cultural advocacy, having served as executive council member of the National Committee for Cultural Education of the NCCA and as a councillor for Southeast Asia and the Pacific of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA).

He is a faculty member of the Fine Arts in Culture-Based Arts program of the School of Arts, Culture, and Performance.

Photos by KC Batino and Jillian Sy (AB Photography). Videos by CCX.

20/12/2025

Happy Holidays from CCX 🎄

As we pause for the holidays, our exhibitions will be closed. We look forward to welcoming you back when regular operations resume on January 5, 2026.

Wishing everyone a safe and joyful holiday season ✨

19/12/2025

Ending the year with meaningful meetings ✨

CCX is excited for a design exhibition collaboration between the Kalaw Ledesma Foundation .ph and CCX opening soon in 2026 👀 with support from Art Caravan PH 😊 .ph

Grateful for the shared vision, collaboration, and generosity that make projects like this possible. Looking forward to what’s ahead! 🌟

11/12/2025

The first wave of Benilde Ideas pocket exhibitions and presentations are now on view at the Design + Arts Campus! ✨

More exhibitions across other Benilde campuses from January to April 2026. Watch out for what’s next!

Benilde Ideas
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Mondays to Fridays (except holidays)

Free and open to the public. For group visits, please inquire through [email protected]

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