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Since opening its new home in BGC in October 2022, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila has welcomed more than 50,000 local and international visitors FOR FREE to a total of 15 contemporary art exhibitions, not to mention monthly public programs, and special events.

Your support for our non-profit museum is vital as we transition to our paid electronic ticketing system for visitors to the museum. Our admission fees are fairly priced with reduced prices for Seniors, PWDs, and Students.

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NOW ON VIEW

BANKSY UNIVERSE | MANILA 2024

14 MAY 2024 - 20 NOVEMBER 2024
2/F SOUTH GALLERY

An immersive experience that presents the disturbing yet poetic world of the famous – and famously anonymous – street artist, Banksy. It starts by tracing the trajectory of his art from its rebellious roots in Bristol, progressing to his iconic works in London, Los Angeles, and New York City. The (unauthorized) exhibition offers a comprehensive view of Banksy's impact on the street art movement, showcasing his thought-provoking pieces that address social and political issues such as inequality, injustice, capitalism, and commercialism.

MATERIAL INSPIRATIONS: ANITA MAGSAYSAY-HO AND NENA SAGUIL

09 november - 08 decEMBER 2024
3/F SOUTH GALLERY

𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 unites the works of Anita Magsaysay-Ho and Nena Saguil, two groundbreaking Filipino artists who transformed modern art in the Philippines. Born in 1914 and classmates at the University of the Philippines, both women pursued distinctive paths that broke barriers in a male-dominated art world. Curated by Patrick Flores.

DREAM STATES

UNTIL JANUARY 2025
GROUNDSPACE

If the dream is, as Sigmund Freud pronounced, “the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter,” there is a trance-like quality to the works in this exhibition that manifests itself in sinuous lines, vivid spray-painted colors, iridescent, amorphous forms, and the otherworldly glow of light against glass. Together, they create fictions that disturb, unsettle, and hypnotize all at once, simultaneously luring and rooting the viewer into a state of in-betweenness that mirrors the artists’ own navigations in and out of the contradictions, ambiguities, and dualities of the spaces they inhabit.