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Urban planning and contemporary architecture remain among the great unknowns of the city of Santiago de Compostela.
Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, explores how architects can—and must—minimise the envi
Timetable: Wednesdays 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
This project was created with the aim of providing, through contemporary art, a space for learning, creativity, and motivation for children and young people undergoing
Back in the mid-nineteen nineties, a young Misha Bies Golas (Lalín, Pontevedra, 1977) discovered the CGAC out of a sort of impulse and curiosity for the institution that had just been founded in Santiago de Compostela. Thirty years on, the artist returns to the museum with a project that condenses more than two decades of research on the historical avant-gardes, understood as a field of tensions, displacements and unfinished processes.
Through movement, improvisation and collective creation, in this eight-session dance laboratory we’ll question the ways we inhabit everyday spaces: public buildings, squares, streets, walls, and fo
The Department of Culture, Language and Youth published today in the Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) a public call for applications to fill, through a discretionary appointment procedure, the pos
The main focus of this event, part of the celebrations for International Museum Day, is to introduce primary school pupils to contemporary art and ignite their curiosity.
The CGAC is presenting a new art education programme for the integration of people with special needs.
An unrivalled figure in the context of Galician culture, Anton Reixa (Vigo, 1957) is not easy to classify. What best defines him is his umbilical relationship with language and the ways in which this becomes an instrument of poetic and socio-political creation, in support of a musical activity that outlined a unique territory in the emergence of ruptures in the Galician and Spanish scenario of the nineteen-eighties, first with Os Resentidos and then Nación Reixa and solo adventures, and finally, in multimedia work which is what has led to the exhibition he is now presenting at the CGAC.
‘Museums Uniting a Divided World’ is the slogan proposed by the ICOM (International Council of Museums) to celebrate International Museum Day on 18 May 2026. With this title, the ICOM aims to highlight the potential role of museums in bridging cultural, social and geopolitical divides, by fostering dialogue, understanding, inclusion and peace within and between communities around the world.
Art from both the 20th century and the present day has undergone an evolutionary process that is full of discontinuities packed with references and languages that either embrace the tradition of western art or totally reject it. Art can be interpreted through a wide assortment of operational strategies that are contingent upon the habitat created by the environmental conditions of each particular moment in time and the specific action of each artist.
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 way of addressing landscape, representing territory or taking a look at what we think is conditioned by a vast cultural framework, with the elements that intervene in its physical or imaginary construction seen as having a manifold nature
We are starting 2019 in the CGAC with a new edition of Workshops for Families.Children aged between 4 and 9 are invited to come with two family members to take part in this activity, which is going to be held on the third weekend of each month.
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—.