The collaboration between two institutions, COAG and CGAC, makes it possible to present in Santiago de Compostela O primeiro Siza, a documentary that looks back at the beginnings of one of the most important careers in contemporary Portuguese architecture and reveals the Four Houses of Matosinhos, Álvaro Siza’s first built work, designed while he was still a student.
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:
10 December 2025
7.00 p.m.
Territory is a video exhibition that aims to bring the public closer to the particularities of the Central American art scene through 18 projections by artists from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama.
29 November 2025
9.30 a.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Legacies. Spaces for the Care of Contemporary Creations is a project born from a shared concern within the contemporary art sector about the future of the legacies of senior artists, as well as the economic and legal circumstances that often surround this group.
12 November 2025 - 28 November 2025
Art, in its continuous transformation, has always been linked to technological achievements and the new ideas they inspire. Today, however, due to the direct impact that scientific and technological advances have on our daily lives, the relationship between science and technology and creative fields is closer than ever.
26 May 2025 - 26 November 2025
8.00 p.m
The series Solos at the CGAC is an encounter between the public and the essential compositions of our time: those that have best known how to show the plurality of an era through their different aesthetics and formal approaches.
26 May 2025 - 26 November 2025
11:00 a.m.
The initiative immerses students – from Year 9 and above – in the world of contemporary music written by great composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
8 March 2025 - 22 November 2025
FACE-TO-FACE FORMAT: Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2.15 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
ONLINE FORMAT: Friday 25 April from 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. and Saturday 26 April from 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Life, school and art are in colour. It’s a key resource for reading and creating images; it’s part of the curriculum in all school stages and is a common axis that allows us to learn from different areas.
9 April 2025 - 19 November 2025
Timetable: every second Wednesday, from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.
The aim of the Community Action Programme, comprising a variety of proposals that will add to those of previous editions, is to continue to foment the participatory and two-way relationship between the museum and the community.
22 February 2025 - 15 November 2025
From 11.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Once again, we will walk through the streets of Santiago de Compostela; on this occasion, to talk about architecture as a container for cultural spaces. To do this, we will stop at some of these places where, beyond simply creating spaces intended to provide a service, architecture can and should be an inspiring element that accompanies and enhances the experience of the visit.