Exhibitions

Angela de la Cruz (Corunna, 1965) has been experimenting with the language of painting for over two decades. The artist has tried to redefine the terms and boundaries of the medium since she began, focusing on painting as an object and in terms of what it can represent.

The creative drive of Loreto Martínez Troncoso (Vigo, 1978) emerges from behind language and occurs in the action as a privileged position from where to explore the tight-knit relationships of the performance with its historicity, with its present.

Accompanying the A Nation's Gaze video creation series, which is hosted by the CGAI in A Coruña and the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, and in exhibition format, the museum will show a selection of pieces that belong to its collection, organised following chronological and thematic criteria, which complement the works included in the sessions.

The work of Julião Sarmento (Lisbon, 1948) is shaped from the borderline. Many of his works contain images of images which, while inter-related, also function independently, embracing the ambiguity of their meaning. They are microstories that take on the multiple potential of cinema, somewhere between the explicit and secret; between what is personal and what is alien. They also share a kind of suspended duration.

Bleda y Rosa. A Geography of Time is an exhibition of twenty-five years of photographic work by María Bleda (Castellón, 1969) and José María Rosa (Albacete, 1970) focusing on their series Campos de batalla (Battlefields). Started in 1994 and recently finished, their project is exhibited as a whole for the first time.

The construction of the CGAC building was carried out in parallel and in dialogue with the transformation of the former gardens of the Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval into a park, thanks to the joint effort of Álvaro Siza Vieira and the Galician landscape architect, Isabel Aguirre. To celebrate this radical, decisive urban transformation of Santiago, Javier Riera (Avilés, Asturias, 1964) has devised a brief walk through the Bonaval Park at…

Nicolás Combarro (A Coruña, 1979) fits into a new spectrum of artists who work with photography. His work focuses on architecture and the concept of construction in coexistence with and feeding into the practice of documentation and intervention, the latter being understood as taking action on space and the landscape.

The close relationship between art and architecture throughout the 20th century has converted the idea of ‘construction’ into an essential key to understanding our relationship with space, landscape and the home, but above all with the practical experience of the artistic object.The actual creative act arises from what we can define as a constructive impulse. The idea of construction is linked to architecture, but also closely to sculpture,…

In 2018, the year the 25th anniversary of the opening of the CGAC building is celebrated, its collection—which started in 1995 as a result of the combination of new purchases and loans from the Xunta de Galicia—is regarded as the powerful backbone of a comprehensive artistic and cultural project for Galicia. The CGAC plays the role of a national contemporary art museum in Galicia. This means that it is the institution which is most capable of…