The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila welcomes Olafur Eliasson’s Your curious journey from July 9 to November 15, 2026, marking the final stop of the internationally touring exhibition that surveys more than three decades of the artist’s groundbreaking practice.
One of the world’s most influential contemporary artists is bringing the final stop of a landmark international exhibition to Manila. This July, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) presents Your curious journey by Olafur Eliasson, a sweeping survey of the artist’s three-decade practice that explores how we experience light, space, and the natural world. Running from July 9 to November 15, 2026, the exhibition arrives in Manila after acclaimed presentations at the Singapore Art Museum, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Museum MACAN in Jakarta. It marks the final leg of the tour before the works return to Eliasson’s Berlin studio.
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About The Your curious journey Exhibition By Olafur Eliasson
Since the early 1990s, the Icelandic-Danish artist has built an international reputation for creating immersive installations that transform the act of looking into something deeply physical. Eliasson reached mainstream recognition with “The Weather Project,” his monumental 2003 installation at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, and has since staged major commissions in museums and public spaces around the world.
At MCAD, Your curious journey brings together works spanning more than 30 years, including the shimmering rainbow of “Beauty” (1993), the immersive “Yellow Corridor” (1997), “Moss Wall” (1994), and The Glacier Melt Series (1999/2019), which reflects on the visible effects of climate change. Together, they examine perception, embodiment, and humanity’s relationship with the environment.
Singapore, 2024.
Eliasson’s works aren’t simply meant to be viewed, but rather, experienced. Using light, water, color, reflection, and natural materials, his installations invite visitors to become active participants, questioning how perception shapes the way we understand the world around us. As one of the most significant international contemporary art exhibitions to arrive in Manila this year, Your curious journey offers a rare opportunity to encounter the work of an artist who has redefined immersive installation art for a global audience.
The exhibition is supported by the Embassy of Denmark in the Philippines, Mercedes Zobel, and Goethe-Institut Philippinen.
Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey runs from July 9 to November 15, 2026 at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Malate. For more information, visit mcadmanila.org.ph.
Photos courtesy of MCAD Manila
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Your Curious Journey is a major traveling exhibition by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that surveys more than three decades of his practice. Featuring immersive installations, photography, and spatial works, the exhibition explores themes of perception, embodiment, and the climate emergency.
Your Curious Journey will be on view from July 9 to November 15, 2026 at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, located at De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde in Malate, Manila.
The Manila exhibition marks the final stop of Your Curious Journey‘s international tour, following presentations at the Singapore Art Museum, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Museum MACAN in Jakarta before the works return to Olafur Eliasson’s studio in Berlin.
Highlights include Beauty (1993), a shimmering rainbow created using light and water; Moss Wall (1994), a large installation of reindeer moss; Yellow Corridor (1997), an immersive work that alters color perception through monofrequency light; and The Glacier Melt Series (1999/2019), which documents environmental change through photography.
Olafur Eliasson is an Icelandic-Danish contemporary artist known for immersive installations that explore the relationship between art, perception, and the natural world. He gained international recognition with The Weather Project at London’s Tate Modern in 2003 and has since presented major exhibitions and public installations at museums and cultural institutions around the world.
