In this workshop we will approach a reading of the city as a complex organism, using the concept of aesthetic experience as a primary tool. By this we mean everything that the different senses capture from a city and that constitutes the common heritage of citizenship (everyone sees the same façades, hears the same noises, gets wet by the rain on the same day).
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The second conference on performance art, Fugues and Interferences, organised by the University of Vigo in collaboration with the CGAC [Galician Modern Art Centre], will take place from 30 November to 2 December 2017 in the cities of Pontevedra (Casa das Campás) and Santiago de Compostela (CGAC).
In the period between 1965 and 1975, conceptual art represented a change of paradigm unheard of until then in the history of art. It changed from an art conceived as an ‘autonomous object’ to another model in which this autonomy was called into question and it became more focused on the ‘process.’
The exhibition offers a journey through Almudena Fernández Fariña’s work spanning a thirty-year career, repositioning her path, and revealing an unprecedented artist whose versatility is evident in a series of parallel processes that include photographic practices, embroidery, ceramic pieces and book-objects.
Guerrilla Girls in Venice is the title of the talk Rosa Martínez shall give in the CGAC to mark the exhibition hosted by the centre since March. Her speech will be about the participation of the Guerrilla Girls collective in the exhibition Always a Little Further curated by Rosa Martínez in the Arsenale di Venezia as part of the 51st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
To celebrate 18th May, this year the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is proposing the theme ‘Museums, sustainability and wellbeing.'
An anniversary is more than a celebration. To remember history is also to take stock, to review and reread the past in order to gain momentum for the future. This review exercise also necessarily implies the recognition of the work of all those people and institutions that, in one way or another, have participated in the planning and execution of a programme and in the construction of an essential public collection. Hence the title of this exhibition, Team work, emphasises the collective effort of those who, since 1993, have contributed to building and consolidating an essential project for culture and art in Galicia.
The Plataforma performing arts festival was born with a vocation that remains the same: to enrich the cultural power of Santiago de Compostela.
El punto impropio (2023) is a project by Javier Martín that creates a dialogue between choreographic work and sound research and visual materials in real time: a kind of auditory [A], somatic [S] and visual [V] recording and composition that, in a resonance exercise, activates and gives new meaning to the choreography.
The Bodies of Film is set out as a reflection on the figure and its relationship with spaces in the audiovisual medium. Under this pretext and over 23 sessions, we will analyse how the body transits in different cinematographic contexts, either from a perspective of gender (comedy, musical, drama, western...), of filmmakers (Jacques, Tati, Michelangelo Antonioni, Béla Tarr, Leos Carax...) or of narratives and different spaces (wandering characters, the city, the road, adolescence, dystopian places...).
For the first time in Spain, the exhibition presents an approach to the universe of the filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (Homayoon Shahr, Iran, 1972) on a journey through his facet as a photographer, as well as his stage work with actors, in theatre and film.
As of last year, the CGAC has been working on a listening project in the San Pedro neighbourhood, compiling its history, traditions, local economy and witnesses to the transformation of its urban and human landscape.
This year like every year, the CGAC presents its summer leisure workshops. The workshops are aimed at encouraging children aged between 4 and 12 to reflect on the importance of art, to better understand the world around them and to provide them with the chance to engage in creative processes, in addition to getting to know, communicate and experiment multiple supports, languages and concepts involved in contemporary art.
Throughout its history, the CGAC has been widely recognised for the spectacular and sensory appeal of the specific installations and interventions carried out in the museum’s iconic spaces—such as the lobby, the Double Space, the terrace, the façade and even the park. If there’s one thing the building housing the museum, designed by the Portuguese national Álvaro Siza Vieira, has stood out for, it’s for the versatility and multiple possibilities it offers for dialogue between art and architecture.
The CGAC was invited by the Teatro Real to take part in the live broadcast of one of the most popular operas in history— Turandot, the final work of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.
WOS is the annual celebration of alternative and avant-garde culture. Fourth edition is taking place at over ten unique locations of Santiago de Compostela’s historical city center from Sep 6 to 10.