The CGAC, the first museum designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, has addressed architecture from multiple perspectives throughout its programme of activities and exhibitions, often through the gaze of the artists who have collaborated with the centre since its opening in 1993. It is therefore a fitting venue to host the first travelling edition of the exhibition curated and designed by the Galician architects Manuel Bouzas and Roi Salgueiro for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, held from 10 May to 23 November 2025. This presentation also marks the first time that an exhibition conceived to represent Spain at this international architectural event is shown in a museum space outside the Biennale itself.

Internalities was the project selected through an open call to represent Spain in the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Carlo Ratti and organised under the theme Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. With this proposal, the Italian architect and urban planner sought to explore how different forms of intelligence—natural, artificial and collective—can be adapted to address the climate crisis and contribute to building a more sustainable world.

The exhibition at the CGAC is structured around an introductory space, Balance, which brings together sixteen projects illustrating the diversity of approaches currently being developed in Spain to reconcile ecology and economy. From there, the exhibition unfolds across five thematic axes—materials, energy, crafts, waste and emissions—presenting the results of research conducted by various teams of local architects and photographers. Each team focuses on a specific territory and resource within Spain, with the aim of analysing the decarbonisation of architecture in the country.

The installation makes use of the materials featured in the different sections as its constructive elements, giving special prominence to timber sourced from the communal woodlands of Galicia.

Promoted by the Government of Spain through the Secretariat-General for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU), and developed in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), Internalities is also officially sponsored by FINSA.