ROUND TABLE ON COLLECTING

27 October 2025

19:00 h

Auditorium

Coordination:

Lucía Carballeda Suárez (Contemporánea), Gema Baños (CGAC)

Seats:

250. Free entry until full capacity is reached

Once again, the CGAC collaborates with Aberto—an initiative promoted by the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of Galicia—by hosting a round table on collecting, organized in collaboration with the Department of Art History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).

In the context of Aberto 2025, art collectors Ana Isabel Álvarez Goyanes and Luis Miguel López Rodríguez, both residents of Monforte de Lemos, will talk with art historian Pedro de Llano Neira about collecting in Galicia.

How does a collection begin? When can one start to recognize oneself as a collector? How is the identity of a private collection defined? What is it like to live daily surrounded by artworks? What are the relationships like with artists, gallerists, curators, and critics? To what extent do tax regulations affect the passion for acquiring art? What is the future of a collecting project for upcoming generations?

These and other questions will be addressed in the discussion taking place on 27 October at the CGAC.

PEDRO DE LLANO NEIRA (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) is a professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and an exhibition curator. Since 2025, he has coordinated the Master’s in Art and Cultural Heritage Management within the Department of Art History at USC.
He devoted his doctoral thesis to the materialist critique of Clement Greenberg (2009). His postdoctoral project focused on transatlantic dialogues between Europe and America within the context of various conceptual practices of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, through research dedicated to artists such as Bas Jan Ader, Dan Graham, John Knight, David Lamelas, and Maria Nordman. This project was developed at the Getty Research Institute and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (NYU).
In parallel, his work has engaged with contemporary debates related to institutional critique, historical memory, decolonial practices, and political ecology, from the perspective of peripheral and minoritized communities, through exhibitions and publications such as El medio es el museo (2008) and La ballena negra (2012), among others. In 2017, he received a fellowship—together with curator Estelle Nabeyrat—to research artists in exile within the collection of the Centre National d’Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in Paris.

ANA ISABEL ÁLVAREZ GOYANES (Pantón, Lugo, 1973) and LUIS MIGUEL LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ (Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, 1968) are art collectors and secondary education teachers based in Monforte de Lemos. Both served as members of the jury in the painting competitions organized by the municipalities of Froxán (O Courel) and Monforte de Lemos in several editions between 2014 and 2019. As collectors, they have been invited to participate in contemporary art fairs such as ARCO Lisboa, ARCO Madrid, Art Madrid, and Arte Santander, and have collaborated with institutions such as the City Council of Ferrol, the Provincial Council of Lugo, and the University of Santiago de Compostela, lending works from their collection for exhibitions promoted by these entities.
Ana Isabel Álvarez Goyanes holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo (Faculty of Pontevedra, 1996) and has worked as a secondary school teacher since 1998, teaching Visual and Audiovisual Education and Technical Drawing at the baccalaureate level. Between 2015 and 2017, she was an associate lecturer in the Department of Didactics of Musical, Artistic, and Physical Expression at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Faculty of Teacher Training, Lugo campus. Currently, she combines her dedication to teaching with artistic practice and, over the past two years, has taken part in up to eight group and solo exhibitions.
Luis Miguel López Rodríguez holds a degree in Physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela and served between 1987 and 1992 as director of the university science outreach magazine A gota de Millikan. Since 1998, he has worked as a secondary school teacher, teaching Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Technology, and Digitalization.