Exhibitions

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.

The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) and the S. A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo present the exhibition Transtempo, which includes a selection of images taken by Cristina García Rodero in Galicia from 1974 to the present. Through this series of photographs, presented for the first time as a structured whole, the artist offers her own personal vision of a timeless Galicia, where religion and pagan rituals intertwine in a story spanning…

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…