Exhibition Extended: "A Synergy of Ventures: The Postward Art Scene" now on view until April 25

A Synergy of Ventures: The Postwar Art Scene is now on view until 25 April 2026, Saturday. Visit the show at the UGF Ateneo Art Gallery (Mr & Mrs Ching Tan Gallery and Mr & Mrs Chung Te Gallery),  Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.

Commemorating the Fernando Zóbel Birth Centennial, “A Synergy of Ventures: The Postwar Art Scene” focuses on the years immediately following the Second World War until the 1960s, a pivotal period in the development of Philippine modern art.

The show mainly presents the core collection Fernando Zóbel had donated to the Ateneo de Manila University between 1959 to 1969, along with other pieces from the current AAG Collection. It also features loaned works from the family of Purita Kalaw Ledesma, the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, Inc. (KLFI), and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. 

The exhibition is also supplemented by materials from the KLFI archives and the Zóbel archives courtesy of the Fundacion Juan March. These are placed within the context and conditions of the time, during which a new visual idiom was evolving.

“A Synergy of Ventures: The Postwar Art Scene” is co-presented with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines.

Learn more about the exhibition at go.ateneo.net/ASynergyOfVentures

Photos by Ateneo Art Gallery and Reeltime Photography/Clefvan Pornela. For inquiries, email aag@ateneo.edu or call (2) 8426 6488.