ManilART 2025: Across Forms, Beyond Borders

ManilART, the country’s national art fair, returns for its 17th edition with the theme “Across Forms, Beyond Borders,” a celebration of the fluid and cyclical nature of inspiration. Set to run from October 15–19, 2025 at the SMX Aura Convention Center, Taguig City, this year’s fair highlights how creativity transcends categories, with artists drawing inspiration from disciplines including fashion, functional design, digital media and cuisine. The theme reflects the way ideas evolve and resurface, reinterpreted across time and form, weaving connections between the visual arts and other creative expressions.

Inspiration Across Disciplines

This year’s featured exhibits spotlight works inspired by other art forms such as fashion collections born from paintings, sculptures that echo textile design, and digital works that reinterpret physical media. The fair underscores how inspiration is cyclical, flowing between disciplines and eras, and how artists continually reinvent forms of expression through dialogue with other creative fields.

Beyond the exhibitions, ManilART’25 strengthens its commitment to education and cultural discourse through talks, panels and workshops. Features include a discussion with global Filipinos from across cultural sectors including cuisine, literature, and the visual arts, expanding conversations on how Filipino creativity resonates worldwide.

Heritage Cuisine and Cultural Intersections

In a unique collaboration, ManilART’25 partners with Coco Kusina, Philippine Coconut Kitchen to explore the interplay of visual art and heritage cuisine which utilizes local and artisanal flavors and ingredients. This partnership showcases how culture itself is a shared canvas, with food, art, and tradition intertwining to enrich the Filipino experience.

Exhibitors at ManilART’25

This year’s roster of exhibitors includes the Annual Sculpture Review, Araw Gallery, Art Corner PH, Art For Space Gallery PH, Art Toys PH, Artalyer, Artes Orientes, AT Art Gallery, Daloy Likha Art Gallery, Drybrush Gallery, Florentino Gallery, Galleria Nicolas, Galerie Bañez, Galerie Du Soleil, Galerie Jose, Galerie Raphael, Gallery Nine, Historia Art, La Galeria De Maria, Legacy Art Gallery, Life ’n Arts Gallery, M Galerie, NAMI Art Gallery, OMVI Art Gallery, Pugad Ni Art, Renaissance Art Gallery, Rojo Galerie, The Artologist Gallery, VAM International Art Gallery, and Village Art Gallery.

Museums and Galleries Month Partners Events and Satellite Exhibits

The five-day fair is co-presented with the City of Taguig, the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the ManilART Foundation, and banners Museums and Galleries Month in October. The fair coincides with satellite shows across the country, extending ManilART’s reach beyond Metro Manila to regional audiences.

San Pablo Art Circuit (SaPAC) 

ManilART ’25 partners with the inaugural San Pablo Art Circuit (SaPAC), an initiative of artistic and cultural venues in and around San Pablo City that have joined forces to showcase the region’s natural and built heritage. Ten venues will feature visual artists and local traditions in a month-long “Artstravaganza” this October. These include the Art Barn at Casa San Pablo, Art Corridor, Color Commune at Sining Labuyo, Fule-Malvar Heritage Mansion, the Lake House, Paraiso de Avedad Gallery, Studio 88, Sulyap Cafe Gallery & Museum, Verbena Gallery of Patis Tesoro and Villa Escudero Museum.

ManilART’25 is supported by partners including CocoKusina, Museo Orlina Tagaytay, SM Aura, SMX Convention Center Aura, Ladder Events, Vision Prime Media, Purefoods Deli, Future Studios, Design Phoundry, TicketBooth.ph, BDO, Art Caravan and MOD Coffee.

Tickets and Information

ManilART’25 tickets are available at Ticketbooth.ph. For group tours and school groups, email manilartsecretariat@gmail.com.