PROGRAMME
ART WORKSHOP: CREATING WITH EVERYDAY OBJECTS
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Bringing together a distinguished group of artists from Galicia and across Spain, this programme offers an open, critical and diverse exploration of the multiple expressions and trajectories of contemporary performance art. The selected works share a profound desire to explore the body, voice, language, memory and everyday life as spaces for thought and experience.
Art from both the 20th century and the present day has undergone an evolutionary process that is full of discontinuities packed with references and languages that either embrace the tradition of western art or totally reject it. Art can be interpreted through a wide assortment of operational strategies that are contingent upon the habitat created by the environmental conditions of each particular moment in time and the specific action of each artist.
I met Misha approximately a decade ago and was able to have a very meaningful conversation with him. I admire both his work and his attitude, the superhuman depth of his research and his intuitive sense of the world.
As part of the San Pedro neighbourhood’s annual festivities, the CGAC is once again presenting an engaging programme of activities. To mark the occasion, the museum is organising two collaborative creative workshops designed to accommodate a continuous flow of participants over a two-hour period. Visitors may complete one workshop and then take part in the other.
Once again, the CGAC is taking part in Madrid’s Teatro Real Opera Week. On this occasion, it will host a live broadcast of Charles Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet.
On the Railings is a creative, educational programme whose goal is to encourage meetings, dialogue and outreach between the museum and the local residents of Santiago de Compostela
The way of addressing landscape, representing territory or taking a look at what we think is conditioned by a vast cultural framework, with the elements that intervene in its physical or imaginary construction seen as having a manifold nature
We are starting 2019 in the CGAC with a new edition of Workshops for Families.Children aged between 4 and 9 are invited to come with two family members to take part in this activity, which is going to be held on the third weekend of each month.
The construction of the videographic image in Galicia from the nineteen-eighties to the present day resolves some creative and ideological issues, regarding commitments and social grievances and, of course, aesthetic issues too—thus, those concerning visual culture rooted in individual and collective culture—.
The CGAC relaunches this series of practical courses for teachers, which propose the use of contemporary art as a learning tool for the classroom. The programme is structured around three themes of great importance to formal education (mathematics, narrative and knowledge of the natural environment). It is designed to explore the limits between knowledge areas and invite the teachers to experiment and learn before using these ideas in their classrooms.
Compostela conversa is a cultural cycle that began in 2017 in the city of Santiago de Compostela with the aim of giving a voice to the new Galician music talent, while at the same time connecting with artists from other disciplines and geographical areas, encouraging reflection on the current scene. In this third edition, which will be held on 15 and 16 February, the City Council of Compostela and the CGAC will work together to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Lost in Sound.
The discursive models applied to the study of art are changing in unison with trends themselves, with contributions from researchers formulating new theoretical and methodological proposals. During these seminars, we seek to present some of the most innovative approaches being applied to the study of the artistic phenomenon from the perspective of both art history and aesthetics.
18th May is International Museum Day and the theme of this year’s celebration is Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition. This year, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is focusing on the new roles being undertaken by museums as active stakeholders in their communities. Hence, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC) will be showcasing films, music, educational workshops and guided tours intended to encourage social integration and accessibility of the arts to the general public.
Siglo XX Instrumental Ensemble - Florian Vlashi Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 8 p.m. At 7.30 p.m., before the concert, the curators Anne Heyvaert and Santiago Olmo will give a guided tour of the René Heyvaert exhibition.
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.
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As an essential part of the project, various discussion and debate spaces will be developed, as well as several workshops and seminars that will take place in June and October.
The Contemporary Music Sessions are organised by the City Council of Santiago, the USC, the Santiago Consortium, the Provincial Council of A Coruña and the CGAC, in collaboration with the Ful
This summer, the CGAC is offering different creative workshops for children aged between 4 and 12. The children who participate in these leisure workshops will have the chance to experiment and discover some of the keys to contemporary art, acquire tools for creating and artistic strategies, reflect on art and, above all, enjoy the process. The teachers, Candela Rajal and Lara Torres, will run three art workshops using as starting points the exhibition Little by little, by Ângela Ferreira, and the collective exhibition We Refugees.