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.
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The aim of this course is to offer a full analysis of the main currents, artists and issues that have shaped the history of art since the early nineteenth century till now.
Building on the foundations of the historical avant-garde movements and their origins, a study will be made of the aesthetic, conceptual and institutional transformations that have redefined what we understand as art today.
A Colectiva (Professional Association of Artists of Galicia), in collaboration with CGAC, brings to Galicia a format of conferences that has been organised for some time in other regions of Spain and that responds to an urgent demand from the art sector in our territory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.