Exhibitions

One photograph. Two. Thirty-three. Two hundred and twenty-four. They arrive from all directions. Front doors open, biscuit-tin lids lift, family albums unfold. We pass them around, moving from photo to photo, from story to story. Some glow with light, others don’t quite fit; a few were hidden away or forgotten.

Territory is the first monographic exhibition on video art and video performance from Central America to be held in Spain. The development of this genre in the region was driven by pioneers such as Manuel Zumbado and Sandra Monterroso, and became consolidated in the late nineteen-nineties and early two thousands, particularly in Guatemala, with performance artists such as Regina José Galindo and Aníbal López.

Nicasso is a work by Carlos Pazos (Barcelona, 1949), created in 2006 and acquired shortly afterwards by the CGAC to be included in the exhibition The Shadow of History, an exhibition focused on the personal or secret archives and collections of various artists. The piece serves as a critical and ironic reflection on the different popular readings and interpretations of Picasso’s oeuvre and myth.

Technology has not only transformed artistic practices, it has also helped to shape and enrich how we perceive and understand the world, incorporating a positive and dynamic principle: uncertainty, which acts both as a limitation and as a critical driving force.

Priscilla Monge’s work has often been included in the post-conceptual scene of Latin America in the nineteen-nineties, but it should be borne in mind that during that time neither Costa Rica nor the region of Central America to which it belongs featured on the maps of internationally renowned Latin American art.

Between October 2022 and February 2023, the CGAC hosted Lives, a solo exhibition from the artist and film-maker, Claudio Zulian. The exhibition resulted in an artist's workshop, conceived as a space for reflection, experience and creation around the urban fabric and the communities that inhabit it. As the CGAC is located in the neighbourhood of San Pedro, selecting this district as the object, or at least, as a space for a workshop project,…

Through fixed and moving images, reused objects, everyday sounds, photographs, interviews, works created for the radio, video performances and documents—many from the media and its sphere of influence—Jerez and Iges compose a space of visual and sound landscapes which analyse, tauten, describe and at times parody the world that surrounds us.

As part of its programme featuring mid-career artists, the CGAC is delighted to present an individual exhibition of the work of Mar Caldas, a pioneer of feminist artistic practice in Galicia. Her work, which is fundamentally photographic, is constantly renewing its stance as a means of protest against the different obstacles which, by their very nature, threaten women’s lives.

Pilar Albarracín (Seville, 1968) was one of the key creators in the renewal of artistic languages in Spain during the nineteen-nineties. In a scene hitherto dominated by painting and sculpture, her work pioneered the use of photography, performance or installation as a means of artistic expression, and has contributed to formulating some of the fundamental questions for understanding the evolution of artistic practices in recent decades.