Lluís Hortalà (Olot, Girona, 1959) plays with the deception and confusion of the gaze, immersing us in the art of trompe l 'oeil. Focusing carefully on detail, a painting that is realistic to the extreme, that is mimetic with textures and sheens, capable of visually reproducing the touch and sometimes the cold temperature of the stones. In this painting it seems that there is nothing but technique; impeccable, it goes without saying. However, behind the technique, sense and meanings emerge.

As seis moedas históricas adquiridas da colección numismática privada de Antonio Orol serán custodiadas e exhibidas no Museo Arqueolóxico de Ourense. Así o anunciou o conselleiro de Cultura, Lingua e Xuventude, José López Campos, na recepción das mesmas, onde salientou “o esforzo feito polo Goberno galego por recuperar e ampliar o patrimonio cultural de Galicia”.

A Xunta de Galicia exhibirá no Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago as dúas pezas escultóricas pertecentes ao mosteiro de San Lourenzo de Carboeiro que se atopaban no Museu Frederic Marès de Barcelona. Así o anunciou o conselleiro de Cultura, Lingua e Xuventude, José López Campos, quen, xunto co concelleiro de Cultura e Industrias Creativas do Ajuntament de Barcelona, Xavier Marcé, celebrou “o regreso a Galicia” destas dúas pezas mediante un préstamo de larga duración.

Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, explores how architects can—and must—minimise the environmental externalities associated with production processes in order to move towards the decarbonisation of construction. Internalities foregrounds the work of a new generation of Spanish practices characterised by the use of local, regenerative, low-carbon resources.

One photograph. Two. Thirty-three. Two hundred and twenty-four. They arrive from all directions. Front doors open, biscuit-tin lids lift, family albums unfold. We pass them around, moving from photo to photo, from story to story. Some glow with light, others don’t quite fit; a few were hidden away or forgotten. Recollections emerge with every photo, and alongside them, the absent stories—those without a picture—become visible as well. The line between personal memories and shared ones begins to blur.

"Territory" is the first monographic exhibition on video art and video performance from Central America to be held in Spain. The project explores the contemporary art landscape of this region, highlighting how sixteen artists from small countries have managed to compensate for the paucity of resources thanks to their considerable imagination. The exhibition focuses on video art and video performance practices that began to take hold in the nineteen-nineties, in the aftermath of the armed conflicts that affected several of those countries.

"Nicasso" is a work by Carlos Pazos (Barcelona, 1949) executed in 2006 and purchased shortly after by the CGAC to be included in "The Shadow of History", an exhibition focusing on the personal or secret archives and collections of different artists.

The piece operates as a critical and ironic examination of the various popular readings and interpretations of Picasso's work, taking as its starting point the famous Vallauris pottery. This town, residence of the Malaga-born artist from 1948 to 1955, became a hub of intense ceramic production.

In 1999, the CGAC, under the direction of Miguel Fernández-Cid and in partnership with the Escuela Internacional de Teoría en las Humanidades of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela—initiated by the former rector Darío Villanueva—organised a series of conferences titled "The Special Plenary Series on Science, Technology and the Arts". This synopsis brought together outstanding figures from different areas of knowledge and creation such as the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Roald Hoffmann, the French novel writer Michel Rio or the Serbian artist Marina Abramović.

The CGAC, the first museum designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, has addressed architecture from multiple perspectives throughout its programme of activities and exhibitions, often through the gaze of the artists who have collaborated with the centre since its opening in 1993. It is therefore a fitting venue to host the first travelling edition of the exhibition curated and designed by the Galician architects Manuel Bouzas and Roi Salgueiro for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, held from 10 May to 23 November 2025.