No Need to Export Expo

BeLikha is pleased to present No Need to Export, a Filipino diaspora exhibition bringing together Filipino artists based in Belgium. The exhibition considers the pressure placed on diaspora communities to make themselves legible, to explain their humour, soften contradictions, package culture, and translate identity for an outside audience. No Need to Export turns away from that expectation. Across different practices, the participating artists engage memory, labour, faith, care, humour, desire, class, migration, and contradiction. The works do not attempt to offer a single image of Filipino identity. Instead, they make space for what may remain coded, intimate, excessive, sentimental, devotional, uncomfortable, or difficult to translate. What happens when Filipino artists do not perform culture as hospitality, nostalgia, decoration, or proof of integration? What becomes possible when meaning is allowed to remain partly untranslated? Vernissage 18 October 2026, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Exhibition 18 October to 12 December 2026 09:30 AM to 5:00 PM (Weekdays) By appointment (Weekends) Venue Mundo B - Matonge Rue d’Edimbourg 26 1050 Ixelles, Brussels Free entry Featuring artists: Amihan De Sosa @amihandesosa Anna Beth Santilla @annabethsantilla Aurea Calanog @oyettecalanog Dr. Carmela Caballero Joe Lampasa Jonabel Huavas @jonabelhuavas Lisandra Chapuis @lisandrachapuis Lise Abitona Milay Calonge Mylene “AKIN” Factora @mylenefactora Myra De La Cerna Diaz Suzette Villanueva and other members of BeLikha Curated by Sam Domingo @samdmngo Supported by Ofeljay store, Ichrp Belgium, Ugnayang Pilipino sa Belgium, and FEDE vzw Technical support by M&L Sounds