Exhibitions

Curated by Isabel Carlos, Suspending Time is the largest individual exhibition ever produced by the British artists Jane & Louise Wilson in Spain. The exhibition ranges from their first work in video, Hypnotic Suggestion 505 (1993) until the most recent Songs for My Mother (2009).

The project of Rubén Santiago (Sarria, 1974) can be found within the public art initiative The Interpreted City, jointly produced by the Council of Santiago, the Xacobeo and CGAC.

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic takes its inspiration from Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993). The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to today. From the influences of African art on the modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists…

The project In Search of the Miraculous: Thirty Years Later is centred on the last episode in a creative life that was marked by risk and adventure: the Ocean Wave, the boat in which the artist Bas Jan Ader set out in July 1975 to challenge nature to its ultimate consequences, in his posthumous work, was found ten months later, capsized, in the Irish Box fishing grounds by the Spanish trawler Eduardo Pondal whose base was the port of Corunna…

After Giovanni Anselmo (1995) and Giuseppe Penone (1999), CGAC will hola a Gilberto Zorio exhibition—internationally recognised as the unquestionable representative of the Arte Povera—he is the protagonist of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions he has had until now, by covering his creative trajectory from its Stara until present day, produced by the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo). The exhibited works look into the different…

This rereading of the CGAC’s permanent collection is presented under the auspices of Arnulf Rainer’s 1985 funeral masks. The show, entitled Spectral, assembles works in a range of media including drawing, painting, video, print and sculpture, and opens up to new views on memory as a conceptual and perceptive system, the reception of which is rendered denser by art.

From Shop Window Mannequin to Media Star The Old Regime has fallen to the rhythm of the guillotine, equality is established as a principle, industrialisation modifies uses and customs, as well as imposing a new social class, the cities are illuminated at night and the avenues are widened to become the stages of a new life. In the mid 19th century, European society made its way towards modernity flying the idea of progress as a flag. Its…