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Drawing Room Manila The Drawing Room is a gallery in Makati that presents contemporary art from the Philippines on February 1998 in Makati City, Philippines.

THE DRAWING ROOM is a contemporary art gallery founded by Cesar Villalon Jr. It mostly features established artists from the Philippines whose respective practices investigate the complementary and often merging positions among their oeuvre, their lifestyles and the realities that make up a complex society. The gallery exists in a dynamic and in-depth platform with its artists – through its support in interdisciplinary artistic process and a strategic and critical program of presentation in international art fairs and collaborations with institutions and other venues. The Drawing Room assists public art institutions in Manila and the region through exhibitions and acquisitions of Filipino contemporary art.

 : Across the works of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu (), and Dominic Mangila (), information and experience become materi...
23/09/2026

: Across the works of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu (), and Dominic Mangila (), information and experience become material. A newspaper records events before becoming an artifact. A surfboard carries the marks of hand and machine. A landscape enters painting through the memory of catastrophe and the uncertainty of imagining a place beyond direct observation. The processes of making remain visible, giving form to histories that continue to change as they are remembered, reproduced, and encountered.

Presented by The Drawing Room (Manila)

Booth 209
The Armory New York 2026
Javits Center
September 24 - 27, 2026

Line Drawings - Ian Carlo Jaucian (Ian Carlo Jaucian)Jaucian trained as a painter at the University of the Philippines D...
21/09/2026

Line Drawings - Ian Carlo Jaucian (Ian Carlo Jaucian)

Jaucian trained as a painter at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Fine Arts, where he now teaches mechatronics and creative coding under the Department of Studio Arts.

He was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards in 2015, 2016, and 2018, and received the Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2021.

His work was recently featured in Poets of Physics at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila.

Exhibition continues through Saturday, September 26

  : BOOTH A-1, TAIPEI - As we enter the final quarter of fairs, we widen our program through our participation in this y...
17/09/2026

: BOOTH A-1, TAIPEI - As we enter the final quarter of fairs, we widen our program through our participation in this year's edition of Art Formosa 2026.

Our presentation features five artists over a diverse range of material and medium:

Vermont Coronel Jr (Vermont Coronel Jr. )
Reina Cruz (Reina Cruz Sanchez )
Troy Ignacio(Troy Ignacio )
Kitty Kaburo (키티 😼 )
Atsuko Yamagata (Atsuko Yamagata )

Art Formosa 2026
Warehouse 1, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Taipei, Taiwan
September 25 - 28, 2026

Visit our three artist presentation of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu (Tomas Vu), and Dominic Mangila (Dominic Mangila) at...
16/09/2026

Visit our three artist presentation of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu (Tomas Vu), and Dominic Mangila (Dominic Mangila) at The Armory Show New York (The Armory Show ) next weekend!

The Drawing Room
Booth 209
The Armory Show NY
Javits Center
September 24 - 27, 2026

kolown -gapnod_protocol at the galleryProjects on ViewScreen Paintings: The project explores painting in the age of scre...
15/09/2026

kolown -gapnod_protocol at the gallery

Projects on View

Screen Paintings: The project explores painting
in the age of screen-fi rst reality and how it
aff ects the concept, process, and technique of
contemporary painting.

Parallel Chrono Escape 2050 is a game developed
as part of the GhostControl project, which
premiered at ALT Philippines 2026. The narrative
centers on a USB drive sent back from the
year 2050 to 2026 through a wormhole, with
participants using various real-time controllers
to navigate the gameplay. Built entirely using
open-source technology, the game’s visual assets
are synthesized from 3D-scanned objects, street
photography, public posters, and works from the
Screen Paintings series.

Souvenir Surplus: is a project speculating on
artifacts from worlds that don’t exist. Inspired
by tourism memorabilia, it fabricates magnetic
objects, faux ruins, and fi ctional relics from
alternate timelines and spaces. Ultimately, the
project treats these pieces as tangible memories
of the never-have-been.

Walay_Katapusan: a doom scrolling video
installation featuring video and images sourced
from internet clippings.

Data_Sculpture: a “micro-data centers” that
gathers and houses data much like industrial
facilities, but instead powered by renewable
energy and can be installed anywhere.

Exhibition continues through September 26

 : Our presentation at 프리즈서울.운영 came to a close early this week after a successful run. We thank everyone for visiting u...
11/09/2026

: Our presentation at 프리즈서울.운영 came to a close early this week after a successful run. We thank everyone for visiting us, engaging with Chelsea Theodossis' (Chelsea Theodossis ) works, and sparking plenty of ideas and conversations.

We look forward to next year's edition.

Matina Partosa - borrowed heatBetween these two hands, the individual begins to blur.  A gesture can outlast its maker. ...
10/09/2026

Matina Partosa - borrowed heat

Between these two hands, the individual begins to blur. A gesture can outlast its maker. A body can become nourishment for another body. An image can become a memory in someone else's mind. What belongs to one life can acquire a life beyond it, altered each time it enters another relation.

Painting gathers these transformations without resolving them. The geological and the fleeting, the living and the dead, the remembered and the observed remain close enough to disturb one another. The surface becomes a place where something can retain a trace of what produced it while becoming something else entirely.

Exhibition continues through September 26

08/09/2026
  : Last day at Frieze Seoul, presenting Chelsea Theodossis' (Chelsea Theodossis ) latest works at Booth B21Comfortable ...
05/09/2026

: Last day at Frieze Seoul, presenting Chelsea Theodossis' (Chelsea Theodossis ) latest works at Booth B21

Comfortable Statues
Oil on canvas
183 x 427 cm
2026

Frieze Seoul 2026
COEX Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea
September 2-5

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GF, Building C, Karrivin Plaza 2316 Chino Roces Avenue Ext
Makati
1231

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