Ronald Ventura: Luna

Set in a former shipyard, Ronald Ventura: Luna unfolds as a large-scale, site-specific exhibition to stage a vivid dialogue between Venice and Malabon. The show, curated by Ruel Caas, connects two water-shaped communities linked by tides, trade, memory and ecological vulnerability. At its centre is the moon – both symbol and force – used as motif that governs the sea’s rhythms and becomes a metaphor for shared conditions across distant geographies.

Ronald Ventura: Luna features more than a dozen newly produced works spanning oil paintings, charcoal drawings, resin sculptural compositions, Murano glass sculptures, and installations, thus forming an immersive encounter that moves between the mythic and the immediate. Ronald Ventura’s visual language intentionally collides photorealism, Renaissance figures, cartoon imagery, fragments of text, and classical references to reflect layered identities and the contemporary tension between modern life and nature’s cycles.

Extending beyond the physical space, the exhibition is accompanied by a public programme including a masterclass tied to MUSE‘s “We Are the Flood” and an extensive publication of essays, institutional texts, and an artist interview.