Exhibitions

La bandera en la cima is the first full presentation of the project that Rafel G. Bianchi began in 2007: painting in a detailed manner the fourteen highest mountains in the world, the fourteen eight-thousanders. A feat that in the world of mountaineering is brimming with heroism and which in is reiteration as an artistic project betrays the role of the artist involved in a absurd trask. In addition to the fourteen final paintings, La bandera…

De la generosidad falls within a series of exhibits that, over the past years, have been organised based on the Helga de Alvear Foundation Collection. On this occasion, the CGAC hosts a selection of works from this unique collection under the curatorship of its director, Miguel von Hafe Pérez.

The Centro Torrente Ballester in Ferrol will be hosting two exhibitions with works drawn from the CGAC Permanent Collection: Miradas cinematográficas. Colección CGAC

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.