Exhibitions

En colaboración coa USC (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), o CGAC presenta unha exposición na Igrexa da Compañía cunha serie de obras da Colección Fundación ARCO, Colección IFEMA e Colección permanente CGAC. A obra Mystique de Carles Congost abre esta exposición que pretende dialogar coa igrexa, a través dunha serie de obras de arte contemporánea que nos levan a ese concepto tanto relixioso como filosófico e literario que é o místico:…

Between 12 November 2011 and 26 February 2012 the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea will be staging the exhibition entitled Jeff Wall. The Crooked Path, curated by Joël Benzakin and organized by the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Bozar) in collaboration with the CGAC. The show will be installed in the basement, the hall, the ground-floor and first-floor galleries and the double space.

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…

The exhibition entitled How they See Us gathers together pieces from the permanent CGAC collection and the ARCO Foundation collection; pieces that cover a period of almost thirty years (from 1970 to 2007) by artists from different generations and geographies, laying special emphasis on the ways in which self-representation is shown as the process of questioning historically constructed conventions.

This exhibition, presented at MACBA early in 2011, arrives at CGAC with the intention of showing audiences in Compostela how very different ways of understanding the images and the life of concepts have ended up tracing the horizon of our cultural present.

Fernando Jose Pereira’s activity, which includes several resources and begins essentially in the nineteen-nineties, prefers the use of facilities and videos as mechanisms for carrying out a critical review of institutional criticism itself. Aware of the limitations of many of the proposals that are structured from the ambiguity involved in working critically on the institutional apparatus from a false exteriority, this author prefers to…

Its drifting in two opposite and complementary senses has been a constant in abstraction¡s long journey, soon to complete its first 100 years. There i the path whose priority is inmediate, spontaneus and direct expression, and the there is that which is guided by calculatio, rigor and rules, it is confirmed that in the last two decades, painters suchas Richard Aldrich, José Loureiro, Nico Munuera and Juan Uslé from different national…

After her presentation at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea hosts the first retrospective exhibition in Europe of the Italianborn Brazilian artist, Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942), whose work is a reference for artists of different generations, both in her home country and on a global scale.