Activities

The CGAC's Activities and Pedagogical Department develops its programme with a primary goal: to bring art to society through the rigorous analysis of critical issues inherent in contemporary artistic activity.

Film seasons and conferences, workshops, seminars and concerts, make up the centre’s fundamental offer of activities, aiming to involve a wide range of audiences from the professional sector of the world of art and culture to an increasingly larger group of artists and fine art and history students, not to mention all those interested in the evolution of art and aesthetic reflection.

At the same time, the CGAC develops specific programmes for schools and colleges as well as guided tours, with the purpose of providing the various groups who come to the museum with the necessary tools to understand contemporary art and, from there, the world we live in.

If you would like to receive information on CGAC activities, you can request it by sending a message to the following email addresses:

 

1 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
The first Saturday of every month
At 12:00 hours

On the first Saturday of each month we organize a visit around the architecture and history of the CGAC. During these visits, we will talk about the design of Álvaro Siza Vieira and his close formal and conceptual relationship with Bonaval Park and the city that hosts it.

1 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
Every Sunday
At 12:00 hours

Every Sunday, the public is invited to come and visit CGAC to enjoy the exhibits accompanied by specialists in art. This service aims to stimulate public interest in modern artistic creations and to facilitate the dialogue between the spectator and the works of art. The public will be given a tour of the different temporary exhibitions with comments by two art experts.

1 October 2026 - 3 December 2026
Thursdays, 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm

In this course, we will explore post-photography as an expanded field of practices, discourses and critical approaches to the production, circulation and consumption of images in the digital age.

28 November 2026
11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

Poodle with a Muzzel. Insruction Manual for Dancing is an artistic and editorial research project exploring the relationship between the body, movement, instability and dance.

7 February 2026 - 21 November 2026

FACE-TO-FACE FORMAT: Saturdays from 10.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and 4.00 to 7.30 p.m.
ONLINE FORMAT: Friday 8 May from 6.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. and Saturday 9 May from 10.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.

Few topics are as transversal and present in education, art, and life as identity. This edition of Art in the Classroom invites participants to reflect on what defines, distinguishes, and unites us, to discover artistic references, and to explore identity through the tools of visual arts.

14 February 2026 - 14 November 2026
From 11.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

Urban planning and contemporary architecture remain among the great unknowns of the city of Santiago de Compostela. The aim of this activity is to encourage citizens to go beyond monumental Compostela and to walk, discover and enjoy an architectural landscape that is contemporary and constantly evolving.
On this occasion, and in response to public demand, we are reissuing several architecture routes carried out in recent years.

13 November 2026
8.00 p.m.

Light acts as an immaterial substance capable of transforming our perception of volumes, revealing textures and establishing shifting relationships between surfaces. Its presence introduces a temporal dimension that allows architecture to be experienced as a dynamic reality, shaped by environmental changes and the presence of the observer.

5 February 2026 - 11 November 2026
8.00-9.30 p.m.

The aim of this programme is to promote and facilitate a dialogue between the public and contemporary art using yoga as a tool for mediation.

Over the course of this year, we’ll be holding a series of yoga sessions structured around and inspired by exhibitions by artists such as Carlos Pazos, Lluís Hortalà, Alexandra Ranner or Jannis Kounellis.

24 October 2026
MORNING: 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
AFTERNOON: 4.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

Photography and other image-making media based on optical capture devices have shaped our visual culture, centred on the eye and the camera. But on the bicentenary of Nicéphore Niépce’s foundational image, the situation has changed: photography has come out of the closet. It has finally revealed its true nature, rebelling against the constraints that once confined it.