For Malaysian artist Liew Mei Toong, 2023 has been a balancing act. As she returns to Galerie Stephanie, Balance: A Year in Reflection returns inwards as it revisits the past year. Indeed, following Metamorphosis, the artist has changed; she shows herself in the sense...

Guided by a bibliophile’s intuition, Compendium by Angono-based artist Lyndon Maglalang is an exhibition of surreal impulses and off-kilter matter. Maglalang presents us with ghostly yet quietly affirming happenings, glistening with a mystic awareness of geometry and...

There is perhaps no greater enterprise humanity undertakes than that of finding oneself. Yet, as one finds oneself thrust into the unknown and unfamiliar, this very journey of self-fulfillment can, as it always has, come into tension with the equally compelling quest...

Cloaked in unearthed wildness, the forest emerges as an ancient enigma, mutable ground. The forest whispers an arcane, elusive lyric, and moves to its own temporality. In Hae Ryun’s solo exhibition Roots and Wings, the South Korean artist centers her paintings on the...

Within the stillness of Quiban’s landscapes, there is rupture. Unrecognizable yet so familiar, the breathless expanses offer a lonesome meeting place, a site to befriend only one's shadow. “Shadows are the scars, failures, and pain that demand to be recognized and...

Juvenal Sansó and Cristina Gamón: A Dialogue Across Time & Space It is understandable that Juvenal Sansó (b. 1929) experimented with the 35mm slides as an artistic medium in the 1970’s, following his extensive travels to other parts of Europe, the Americas, and...

Pat Frades’ 2nd solo exhibition with Galerie Stephanie entitled “II. Self-Medicate: Allure” remains consistent in her desire to share with the public her deep fascination with fungi. The exhibit is her attempt to “powerfully attract or charm” the public into knowing...

In Farley Del Rosario’s newest collection, iconic characters play out the virtues of taking proactive steps to shape one’s reality, making intentional choices, and pursuing fulfillment—living by example as “Masters of their Universe”. Drawing scenarios from his...

Out of a dripping, impressionistic world, where we stand at the edges of accelerated transit, Thea Quiachon forges a nebulous, gray zone. Everywhere we turn, form is imbued with movement: these frames—like movable ruins—endure as etched puzzle pieces, glinting with...

Self-discovery is best paired with solitude. Galerie Stephanie's group show for this year's edition of MoCAF entitled Alone But Never Lonely feature the works of Lyndon Maglalang, Mr. S, Thea Quiachon, Imam Santoso and Hideo Tanaka, and courses across ideas on...

"The pieces in "alternate ending" are derived from old still life paintings from a few hundred years ago. I imagined an alternate ending to the pieces made by those old artists. The image was derived from the question "What if I was the one seeing the subject they...

Walking barefoot is a sensation associated with freedom and liberation. An act that is easily taken for granted. Dan Macapugay’s Barefoot highlights this very freedom. Being barefoot on the ground is rooted in the personal experience of the artist. He looks back at...

"TRES" Tres or the number "Three" (3), has always been ascribed special significance by various societies in our history.  A number designated to the triune divinity, it is also symbolic of stability in geometry, and of balance and pointing to a rise of consciousness...

Whereas his previous Party Animals zeroed in on political structures and identities, Reybert Ramos’ Kingmakers looks deeper into the socioeconomic inequalities that underlie such systems. In a collection that highlights apex predators of distinguished pedigrees, the...

Describing femininity is a complex task as it encompasses a wide range of qualities, characteristics, and cultural connotations that vary across individuals, societies, and historical periods. In Cloaked in her Essence, artists Noor Bahjat and Shireen Co's recent...

Close to Home: A Memory’s Invitation to Find Tenderness in Chaos In a world that often glorifies order and neatness, Filipino visual artist Tintin Lontoc's works in Close to Home challenge us to embrace solace amidst the messiness of existence. Their artistic practice...

Hope emanates as a potent force throughout inevitable struggle. In Kim Borja’s latest solo exhibition, several female faces are placed in familiar scenes donning almost lost, dreamlike expressions. Each gaze is an ode to the complexity of emotions one encounters...

Galerie Stephanie | These common, intimate objects Pablo Capati, Marco Rosario, and Jezzel Wee From Soetsu Yanagi’s The Beauty of Everyday Things Inspired by the principles and discipline of the mingei movement, spearheaded by Japanese philosopher Soetsu Yanagi, the...

In Katrina Cuenca’s debut exhibition with Galerie Stephanie, her abstract works continue with dynamic floral compositions and vibrance— now staged in bright and lustrous borders of gold and white. Her new series of artworks draw from elements of spirituality...

“It is a beauteous morning, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility” (from Lines Written at Sunrise by William Wordsworth) A mirror to a journey of reflection and renewal, this...

  Raul Isidro’s brush strokes are sweeping, his colors coruscating across kaleidoscopes of texture and form. A native of Samar, the artist is no stranger to bucolic vistas, evident in his mastery of rendering idyllic scenes. From the gentle patterns of petals and...

SECRET SOCIETY: Humans in Thick Fur and Feathers “Recently, I happened to observe a pair of blackbirds in my garden, a mother with her baby…” As visual artist Nunzio Paci begins this narrative of his observations in his garden in Bologna, Italy, a melancholic truth...

In the seminal works of Julie Lluch, the stories of the land and people do not run skin deep but course through our very blood. Vignettes of Lluch’s life gather with accounts of the country’s recent and distant past in an epic retelling of the story of the Filipino...

Filipino visual artists Lyndon Maglalang and Shannah Orencio join Galerie Stephanie in its 2023 showcase at Art Fair Tokyo, traversing the eternal question of life and death, and where each one really begins. Despite the stark visual contrast of styles by both...

Born and raised in Tondo, Manila, Jobert Cruz draws on pride of place and his community in his recent works. In neon pinks and acid oranges, vibrant teals, and touches of purple, Cruz evokes the feeling of the 1980s, replete with padded blazers and pastel topsiders,...

Patterns form shadows. Lines breed recognition. Thread manifests humanity. In Layers, Eugenia Alcaide traces the contours of one’s interior landscape and untangles the complexities of identity. Alcaide’s precise line artwork cast intricate and ever-shifting networks...

“Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.” ― Wendy Flynn Ev Yu Laugo (1990) is a visual artist and zine maker based in the Philippines. Yu who is recognized for her watercolor works, dives headfirst into a new medium in "The Wiggle Room."...

Olympus in Abstracts: Tejido’s Retelling of Mythology Unsheathing lore and adventure, “Olympus” depicts the ancient Greek deities through contemporary abstractions and explorations. His works represent the eminence of Greek mythology and their homes, narrated through...

In the opulent tableaux of visual artists Summer de Guia and Ron Mariñas, figures test the definitions, standards, and limits of beauty. S̶o̶r̶r̶y̶ Not Sorry is unapologetically forward, unafraid of laying everything bare, and unflagging in reclaiming the power of the...

An Allegory of Present Histories: How Niño Odosis Paints Time Here Lies a Memory is a play of words that visual artist Niño Odosis presents in his solo exhibition at Galerie Stephanie. Lured with nostalgia, his works bridge the past and present through antiquities....