ART UNDERGROUND (est. 2014) is a platform for contemporary visual art practice and projects, showcasing visual cutting edge programmes expressed through painting, sculpture, installation, and new media. Centering on dialogue through contemporary art forms and disciplines and its regional, national, and international impact; AU inspires ingenuity, curiosity, and innovation through the experience of art.

Art Underground presents an opportunity to its roster of artists to showcase on a premier stage, locally and internationally, through its consistent participation in various art fairs such as Art Fair Philippines, Art Fair Tokyo, Art Central Hong Kong, Art Kaohshiung, and KIAF (Korean International Fair) Art Seoul.

Focusing both on discovering and providing new opportunities for young and emerging artists, as well as promoting and advancing established ones, the gallery aims at foregrounding the current commentaries in the field. Art Underground celebrates the extraordinary creativity of artists whose works reflect the Filipino experience and its potential global influence.

ART UNDERGROUND promotes art that harmonizes the timeless contexts and notions and aesthetics with the thought provoking, intriguing and at times disturbing peculiarity of contemporary concerns. It endeavors to meld the classic quality of sublime art with the earthy and the real, manifested in the evolutionary creative output, pursuits, study and discourse of Art Underground’s select roster of artists and guest artists, curators, academics and practitioners.