Catálogos de sopro, respiración e asubío, an obsessive and recurring study of the diffusion of air by the composer Ramón Souto (Spain, 1976). This is the start of the new edition of Music and Art. Sound Correspondences to mark International Museum Day, an encounter between the music and art of our time, which is open to all current creative expression in order to raise awareness about the most advanced aesthetics, the most important composers on the new music scene and the most interesting development prospects for new music.
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Nalgures (Someplace) situates us in an indeterminacy that is yet to be defined, within certain fragmentary geographies: places, vestiges, modes of occupation.
Contemporary architecture and town planning are the city of Compostela’s great unknowns.
The Museum as a Stage advocates the role of artistic exhibition architectures as spaces for experimentation and in which to able to position oneself between the immediacy of performance, the immersive capacity of events on stage, the installations, the happening and avant-garde sonority.
Nodes and Visions. How do You Imagine the End? reviews some essential points of the work of the Asturian choreographer and visual artist Olga Mesa. In dialogue with Nekane Aramburu, both will discuss ideas and images related to creative practice and theory of art.
During the nineteen-fifties and sixties, Raniero Fernández (Vigo, 1909 - 1999) produced impressive photographic work that, over time, has become very relevant.
To celebrate 18th May, International Museum Day, this year the ICOM’s slogan is ‘The Power of Museums.’ Its aim is to highlight the transformative potential of museums in their communities, as places of training, discovery, research, encounter and as forums for cultural exchange and knowledge sharing.
For yet another year, the CGAC presents its offer of workshops for leisure time that will take place during July. It is an offer full of activities for participants all ages with the purpose of arousing their curiosity and interest in the immediate surroundings and of unleashing their creative energy.
The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) and the S. A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo present the exhibition Transtempo, which includes a selection of images taken by Cristina García Rodero in Galicia from 1974 to the present. Through this series of photographs, presented for the first time as a structured whole, the artist offers her own personal vision of a timeless Galicia, where religion and pagan rituals intertwine in a story spanning several generation
This summer, the Leisure Workshops will be a body observatory for children.
We’ll explore a CGAC exhibition for each age group over a period of four days per group, accompanied by the stage designer and writer Helena Salgueiro. We’ll focus on the body and how, through art and language, it helps us to observe and discover things about ourselves and also about others.
In her creative processes, Narelle Jubelin defines her works by researching and analysing the contexts in which her projects are framed. On this occasion she draws on specific object or literary references within the Galician context and linking them to other mappings and personal references.
When the 21st century had yet to become definitively anomalous, cinema was already incubating the germ of an indefinable strangeness in its altered narratives.
The CGAC is supporting the 64th edition of Music in Compostela, a programme promoting the preservation, knowledge and dissemination of Spanish musical heritage, with a concert that will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, 5 August, in the CGAC auditorium.
For yet another year the CGAC is collaborating with the University of Santiago de Compostela in the Nerd Nites programme. During Nerd Nites, guests can chat with the public about the disciplines they are passionate about, in a relaxed tone and in a non-academic environment. The conversations are about literature, politics, medicine, mathematics, biology, art, etc. They are directed by experts in the fields and their prerequisite is simplicity of concepts and contents.
The conference is organized by the University of Vigo and the Museum of Galician Contemporary Art (CGAC).
The exhibition Nalgures highlights the attention Narelle Jubelin (Sidney, Australia, 1960) gives to those realities forgotten by the linearity of official history. With this spirit, she embraces the subalternities of different contexts, her own and those of others, in order to revisit memories that allow us to define our attitudes towards these events.
After the ‘Great Reset’ triggered by the pandemic and the resulting collective shock, society as we know It is heading towards a recession: degraded and ultra-mutable values, extreme polarisation, a crisis in terms of ideology and resources, generational gaps, the mass integration of artificial intelligence in the creative sphere and a common problem that after sixty years of invisibility is calling at our door.