While the Tanghalang Pambansa (CCP Main Building) is undergoing its much-needed rehabilitation, the Cultural Center of the Philippines has been looking for exhibition spaces and performance venues in and outside of Metro Manila and maximizing its existing spaces in the CCP Complex to continue with its programming.

The premier arts institution has partnered with various museums and galleries in Metro Manila and provinces outside the capital region. Aside from that, the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division has been rolling out traveling exhibitions, the latest of which is the ongoing Woman: Thesis and Antithesis in partnership with the Yuchengco Museum in Makati City.

For its visual arts programs and projects, the CCP transforms the third floor of the Tanghalang Ignacio B. Gimenez (CCP Blackbox Theater) into a gallery and exhibition space, called Bulwagang Roberto Chabet.

The new gallery will complement the philosophy guiding CCP's Blackbox Theater, which was designed to cater to new works that are "out-of-the-box." This thrust the Bulwagang Roberto Chabet or CCP TIG Gallery also aims to uphold. In time, the new gallery will host contemporary and experimental exhibitions, as well as innovative collaborations.

"As its mandate, the CCP creates a balance between being in touch with Philippine art history and making space for contemporary methods of artmaking. We hope to accomplish and fortify that responsibility through Bulwagang Roberto Chabet," said CCP president Margarita Moran-Floirendo.

The new exhibition space aims to extend the CCP's thrust of promoting artistic excellence and nurturing of art making and appreciation while the Main Building undergoes rehabilitation.