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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
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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.
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.
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—.
The CGAC relaunches this series of practical courses for teachers, which propose the use of contemporary art as a learning tool for the classroom. The programme is structured around three themes of great importance to formal education (mathematics, narrative and knowledge of the natural environment). It is designed to explore the limits between knowledge areas and invite the teachers to experiment and learn before using these ideas in their classrooms.
Compostela conversa is a cultural cycle that began in 2017 in the city of Santiago de Compostela with the aim of giving a voice to the new Galician music talent, while at the same time connecting with artists from other disciplines and geographical areas, encouraging reflection on the current scene. In this third edition, which will be held on 15 and 16 February, the City Council of Compostela and the CGAC will work together to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Lost in Sound.
The discursive models applied to the study of art are changing in unison with trends themselves, with contributions from researchers formulating new theoretical and methodological proposals. During these seminars, we seek to present some of the most innovative approaches being applied to the study of the artistic phenomenon from the perspective of both art history and aesthetics.
18th May is International Museum Day and the theme of this year’s celebration is Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition. This year, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is focusing on the new roles being undertaken by museums as active stakeholders in their communities. Hence, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC) will be showcasing films, music, educational workshops and guided tours intended to encourage social integration and accessibility of the arts to the general public.
Siglo XX Instrumental Ensemble - Florian Vlashi Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 8 p.m. At 7.30 p.m., before the concert, the curators Anne Heyvaert and Santiago Olmo will give a guided tour of the René Heyvaert exhibition.