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:
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‘In October and November 2016, I presented the project entitled READING_State of Siege, in collaboration with the International Art and Human Rights Festival ARTifariti. This Festival is held every year in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria.
The CGAC is presenting a new art education programme for the integration of people with special needs.
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…
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.
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
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—.
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.
For yet another year, the first Sunday of every month, at 6:30 pm, from October to June (except in January), the CGAC is organising a philo café in its cafeteria. This year the Asociación Galega da Crítica (Galician Association of Critics) will join the philo cafés at the CGAC.
Each year on May 18, in an effort to highlight the role of museums in the development of society and culture, the CGAC joins in on the celebration of International Museum Day offering a week full of activities for all ages.