March 2026 Round-Up
Ateneo Art Gallery, Cultprint, Haridas Contemporary, STORAGE, and Silapak Trotchaek Pneik, Rona: Erna Pirous
A World of Islands: On Palms, Coconuts, & Storms
Alex Quicho, Alley to Heaven (still), 2023, CGI Video, 19min. Image courtesy of the artist.
A World of Islands brings together artistic perspectives and research on the Philippine archipelago. Curated by Ligaya Salazar, the exhibition attempts to locate the ‘tropics’ as both a mythological and real place. It unpicks clichés and relocates agency to the ‘tropical’ narrative. First exhibited at The Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University London, eight artistic voices were assembled to foreground these complexities in its second iteration at the Ateneo Art Gallery: Nice Buenaventura, Kim Sacay Chin, Stephanie Comilang, Ronyel Compra, Carol Anne McChrystal, Alex Quicho, Joar Songcuya, and Derek Tumala. Emerging from their works examining Philippine climate, peoples, and their diasporic movements are shared colonial and ecological traumas. Together, they remind viewers that as a world of islands, our futures are bound together.
A World of Islands: On Palms, Coconuts, & Storms is on view until 24 May 2026 at Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines. More information here.
Subculture
Teebai, Want But Don’t Want Because Want, 2025, engraving on glass, 57 x 57cm. Image courtesy of Cultprint.
Cultprint opens Subculture in conjunction with Penang Long Art Weekend, which runs from 6 to 9 March 2026. In line with the studio’s principle that artistic practice is communal and strengthened by exchange, the exhibition will feature over 20 local and international artists including Tep York, Hoo Fan Chon, Sam Lo, and Jolene Liam, whose practices emerge from distinct communities, sensibilities, and cultural margins. Spanning a range of media from painting and sculpture, to photography, installation and print, the works provide a vivid look at the contours of contemporary subcultural systems, while positing it as a condition of making. What emerges is an internal logic that shapes a fluid and self-determined understanding of subculture embedded in everyday experiences.
Subculture will run from 7 March to 3 May 2026 at Cultprint, Penang, Malaysia. More information here.
Echoes of Undergrowth
John Marie Andrada, As the Leaves Billow, 2026, oil on canvas, 122 x (91+91)cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Haridas Contemporary.
Echoes of Undergrowth marks John Marie Andrada’s second solo exhibition at Haridas Contemporary. Featuring 14 paintings and two multi-media installations, the new works unfold through the melding of natural phenomena and human anatomies. Built on the artist’s explorations on undergrowths, the show brings viewers through a myriad of layered scenes, from botanical dreamscapes to evocative soundscapes.
Echoes of Undergrowth is on view from 7 March to 5 April 2026 at Haridas Contemporary, Singapore. More information here.
ลมๆแล้งๆ/ plain·song
Sorawit Songsataya, Voice Break, 2026, rattan vine, UV print on handmade paper, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of STORAGE. Photo taken by Atelier 247.
ลมๆแล้งๆ/ plain·song is an exhibition by Sorawit Songsataya featuring an ongoing body of work developed from her long-term research on sonic ecologies. The presentation thinks through the conceptual, textural, and regenerative potentials of discarded scores and residues of acoustic acts. Audiences are invited to engage in the act of listening to an inaudible, organic composition. The works move through videos, soundscapes, sculptures, and site-responsive installations made of rattan and paper. By tuning towards the no-longer audible, the Thai-New Zealand artist proposes that the unsound and silenced can be reimagined beyond passivity into modes of resistance and scores of solidarity.
ลมๆแล้งๆ/ plain·song is on display from 22 February to 19 April 2026 at STORAGE, Bangkok, Thailand. More information here.
House on Fire
Photograph by Vandy Rattana, 70 x 100cm. Image courtesy of Vandy Rattana.
House on Fire is a solo exhibition by Cambodian photographer Vandy Rattana, who is known for his portrayals of historical violence through understated and tranquil images. The photographs in this exhibition are drawn from the artist’s extensive archive, produced during his work as a photojournalist for national and international press. Focusing on incidents that took place in Phnom Penh in 2008 and 2009, they surface Rattana’s treatment of historiography through image-making.
House on Fire runs from 15 January to 30 April 2026 at Silapak Trotchaek Pneik, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. More information here.
Rona: Erna Pirous, The Modernist Series #9
Erna Pirous, Mida, 1989, acrylic on rice paper, 45 x 68cm. Image courtesy of Art Agenda.
Erna Pirous is the ninth artist featured by Art Agenda, JKT in its The Modernist Series, an exhibition series running since 2022 that focuses on the lesser-seen works of key Indonesian modern artists. The forthcoming exhibition marks the first collaboration between Art Agenda, JKT and Serambi Pirous.
Among a cohort of Indonesian modernist artists preoccupied with grand narratives anchored in universal truths, Pirous is an exception. In contrast with the dark and strong color palette favoured by her contemporaries, Pirous' optimism influences the fluidity of her forms and the brightness of her color palette. In hues of yellow, light blue, purple, and pink, we bear witness to the stories of the artist’s life.
The exhibition runs from 7 March to 18 April 2026 at Art Jakarta, JKT. It is open to the public Thursday through Sunday each week, from 1pm to 5pm. The e-catalogue is available in Bahasa Indonesia here, and in English here. More information about Art Agenda here.
