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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:
29 September 2018 - 7 October 2018
Once again this year the CGAC collaborates with the 15th edition of the Curtocircuíto International Film Festival.The festival started in 2003 and was an initiative created by the City Council, with the intention of promoting filmmaking in the field of short film.
26 September 2018 - 30 September 2018
The Galician Centre of Contemporary Art is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with music, workshops, dance, film and a light intervention by Javier Riera which will showcase the collaboration between Álvaro Siza, architect of the CGAC, and the Galician landscape artist Isabel Aguirre to create Bonaval park.
12 September 2018 - 16 September 2018
WOS Festival x SON Estrella Galicia é un encontro de carácter anual que defende unha visión ampla da cultura de vangarda. Coa música como motor principal pero cunha decidida vocación multidisciplinar, o festival promove, a partir dun contexto íntimo, a procura e difusión de novas propostas artísticas e culturais desde o risco e a exploración.
16 July 2018 - 20 July 2018
The workshop consists of repeating a series of artworks in order to live experiences that only the author has lived and that we, fellow artists, are not entitled to out of respect for authorship, and for the reason that they have already been done once. The artworks are simple in terms of execution, simple in structure, and cheap.
2 July 2018 - 20 July 2018
Summer is coming and it’s time for our workshops on leisure activities. In this edition, the museum has a programme of workshops aimed at people of all ages.
4 July 2018 - 18 July 2018
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (CGAC), this year the Compostela Cinema Club is running a special edition of summer cinema with a selection of five films based on celebrations, involving very different perspectives and circumstances.
28 October 2017 - 1 July 2018
For yet another year, the CGAC is offering a series of workshops on contemporary architecture for children. The workshops are directed by the architect Fermín Blanco and taught by the Lupo System team. The aim is to provide children with the necessary tools to interpret present-day architecture through the latest theories, projects, and works by the most relevant architects.