18th May is International Museum Day and the theme of this year’s celebration is Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition. This year, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is focusing on the new roles being undertaken by museums as active stakeholders in their communities. Hence, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC) will be showcasing films, music, educational workshops and guided tours intended to encourage social…
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:
19 January 2019 - 19 May 2019
We are starting 2019 in the CGAC with a new edition of Workshops for Families.Children aged between 4 and 9 are invited to come with two family members to take part in this activity, which is going to be held on the third weekend of each month.
2 May 2019 - 3 May 2019
The discursive models applied to the study of art are changing in unison with trends themselves, with contributions from researchers formulating new theoretical and methodological proposals. During these seminars, we seek to present some of the most innovative approaches being applied to the study of the artistic phenomenon from the perspective of both art history and aesthetics.
7 May 2019 - 7 April 2019
Siglo XX Instrumental Ensemble - Florian Vlashi Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 8 p.m. At 7.30 p.m., before the concert, the curators Anne Heyvaert and Santiago Olmo will give a guided tour of the René Heyvaert exhibition.
7 October 2018 - 7 April 2019
With the arrival of autumn, we are launching a new edition of our Philo café in the CGAC, in collaboration with the Galician Association of Critics. The event will take place on the first Sunday of every month, at 6:30 p.m. (from October to April) in the CGAC café. Philo cafés are public discussions in which anybody interested in exchanging thoughts or points of view, on any knowledge area or level, can participate.
9 January 2019 - 13 March 2019
Art from both the 20th century and the present day has undergone an evolutionary process that is full of discontinuities packed with references and languages that either embrace the tradition of western art or totally reject it. Art can be interpreted through a wide assortment of operational strategies that are contingent upon the habitat created by the environmental conditions of each particular moment in time and the specific action of each…
23 November 2018 - 22 February 2019
On the Railings is a creative, educational programme whose goal is to encourage meetings, dialogue and outreach between the museum and the local residents of Santiago de Compostela
15 February 2019 - 16 February 2019
Compostela conversa is a cultural cycle that began in 2017 in the city of Santiago de Compostela with the aim of giving a voice to the new Galician music talent, while at the same time connecting with artists from other disciplines and geographical areas, encouraging reflection on the current scene. In this third edition, which will be held on 15 and 16 February, the City Council of Compostela and the CGAC will work together to celebrate the…
4 December 2018 - 21 December 2018
The construction of the videographic image in Galicia from the nineteen-eighties to the present day resolves some creative and ideological issues, regarding commitments and social grievances and, of course, aesthetic issues too—thus, those concerning visual culture rooted in individual and collective culture—.