Exhibitions

In 2017, the CGAC purchased Camilo José Cela’s photographic archive, which until then was deposited in the Fundación Camilo José Cela in Iria Flavia, in Padrón. This archive is made up of three collections of photographs and negatives that were used by the writer for literary projects and books.

Pilgrim Actions is the title of the exhibition of the Andalusian artist Pilar Albarracín (Seville, Spain, 1968) on show at the CGAC. This is a retrospective exhibition integrated into the programme of events of the second edition of Plataforma. Performing Arts Festival, which will also feature the artist as one of this year's guest performers.

The CGAC, in collaboration with C3A in Córdoba, proudly presents the first retrospective exhibition of work by the late composer Pauline Oliveros (Houston, 1932-2016).

The power of images, symbols, icons, but also the political representation of history and its manipulations and omissions are matters that have been extensively addressed in the field of art theory and history.

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Fine Arts Faculty of Pontevedra (1990-2020), the exhibition project Nurturing Uncertainties. Reformulating Spaces / Provoking Perspectives aims to display a important selection of art works created by the students who have passed through its classrooms during its more than a quarter of a century of activity.

User Guide is an exhibition by La Ribot (Madrid, 1962) documenting a journey through her work over the last twenty years. The works integrating the exhibition are, like all her work, closely connected to the relationship between dance and visual arts. For an artist who moves between both worlds, between theatres, auditoriums, exhibition halls, museums and even art fairs, many of her creations have been conceived in these opportunities she has…

The title Wonder Women alludes to a work by the North American artist Dara Birnbaum represented in the collection. In turn, said work is inspired by a superhero originally conceived for comics, who, in the seventies, starred in a highly successful TV series.

Chaosmos is a journey through the trajectory of the Galician artist Antón Patiño (Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, Spain, 1954), focusing on an anthology of pieces that covers different stages of his work in the field of visual arts, since his participation in the foundation of Atlántica (a central reference point for Galician art in recent decades) to the present, but also in the fields of literature and thought, as the author of several books on…

Manfred Gnädinger (Radolfzell, 1936 - Camariñas, 2002) better known as Man de Camelle, was portrayed for decades by the press as an extravagant character, preventing us from looking beyond and acknowledging the true artistic dimension of his life and work. Man was a multi-faceted creator who carried out all his work in Camelle (Camariñas), completely isolated from the mainstream art world. Throughout his life he devoted his time to…