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:
This Christmas, the CGAC is presenting a selection of the best short films produced in the UK in 2019.
As a result of the collaboration between the British Council and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA Short Film 2019 is a programme devoted to internationally promoting the most outstanding British short films of the year.
Do 10 ao 18 de febreiro de 2020, o Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea acollerá a segunda edición da Maratón Internacional de Creación de Curtometraxes, unha cita anual que forma parte dun movemento presente en máis de oitenta cidades dos cinco continentes.
Once again this year the CGAC collaborates with the 16th 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.
19 and 20 June at 7 p.m. CGAC Auditorium Free and open to the public Manthia Diawara (Bamako, Mali, 1953) is a filmmaker and cultural theorist.Trained in Guinea-Conakry and Paris, he travelled to the United States where he worked as a teacher as well as extensively making films and writing essays. Much of his research focuses on the study of the culture of the African diaspora.
Thursday 4th July, 7:30 p.m.CGAC Auditorium David Lamelas is a key figure in Conceptual art and one of Argentina’s artistic scene’s most important exponents in the nineteen-sixties. From its very origins, his work has been characterised by a unique ability to adapt to different contexts, be they artistic, architectural or geographical, in cities such as London, New York or Berlin.
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.
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.
The series focuses on the relationship between theatre and cinema through five different proposals. El dibuixant and El peix Sebastianoaddress the creative process and the private universe of the artist Marcel·lí Antúnez, a prominent figure in the electronic art scene and stage experimentation, as well as the co-founder of La Fura dels Baus, an internationally renowned theatre company.
One more year, Cineuropa Film Festival, which kicks off its 31th edition, will be held once between November 7 and 28. As usual, the CGAC will be one of its multiple screening venues throughout the city.