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Exhibitions from 1 July, 2022

Exhibitions

09/03/2022 - 31/12/2022
Instituto de Estudios Gallegos "Padre Sarmiento"
The IEGPS, a joint centre of the CSIC and the Xunta de Galicia, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Father Sarmiento, is organising this bio-bibliographical exhibition in the upper cloister of the IEGPS. The exhibition includes testimonies and publications representative of the ...
08/04/2022 - 28/08/2022
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition Obxectos de desexo. Surrealismo e deseño, 1924 - 2020 explores the exchange and dialogue between surrealist art and contemporary design over the last 100 years.
13/04/2022 - 29/10/2022
Centro Abanca Obra Social
The Art of Beginning and the Art of Ending proposes a re-reading of the literary values that Italo Calvino considered should be preserved in the millennium in which we now find ourselves: lightness, speed, accuracy, visibility and multiplicity. In the exhibition, these five concepts are ...
20/04/2022 - 03/07/2022
Zona "C"
The artist Fran Rodríguez Casal (1998, Traspielas, Pontevedra) presents in Zona C the project 'Da túa man para a miña', which was selected in the modality of artistic creation projects to intervene the first and first floor of this space. Zona C, which seeks to give...
03/06/2022 - 10/09/2022
Centro Cultural Afundación
CIDADES NO TEMPO is an exhibition project that aims to highlight the urban identity of Galicia. This proposal, one of the most complex and ambitious organised in our community in recent years, is made up of seven different exhibitions, one for each of the main Galician cities. And in each...
07/06/2022 - 04/09/2022
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
13/06/2022 - 16/09/2022
Colexio de Fonseca
Isabel Rey presents us with a university that in everyday life often goes unnoticed. Time stopped in this sometimes novel perspective, which shows a building heritage that tells its own story.
15/06/2022 - 15/09/2022
Fundación Eugenio Granell
28/06/2022 - 16/09/2022
Auditorio de Galicia
Sons improbábeis explores the different dimensions of sound in the visual arts. On the one hand, it aims to bring together different samples of so-called sound art, an expression that is increasingly present in the work of contemporary artists, while also seeking to investigate the...
01/07/2022 - 31/07/2023
El Ensanche
This is a very unique exhibition format that invites you to walk around and discover the works of 15 photographers in the doorways of as many garages. A large-format photography exhibition that revolves around the different symbolic values that surround the Camino de Santiago. 
01/07/2022 - 18/09/2022
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
For the first time in Spain, arrives at Santiago de Compostela CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically), a groundbreaking and immersive virtual reality experience by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, exploring the human condition of immigrants and refugees.
08/07/2022 - 30/10/2022
Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
This year Xacobeo 2022, the Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is honoured to present a revealing exhibition: Chacona. The Song of Santiago. An exhibition that presents the relationship of this musical form with the city of Compostela, the cathedral and the Camino. The discovery shown for...
13/07/2022 - 15/09/2022
The project "A distancia que une" vindicates the importance of Manolo Paz's work and how Galicia and its landscape, its forms and materials, is always impregnated in his work.
14/07/2022 - 24/09/2022
Zona "C"
The infinite vase by Mar Ramón Soriano is the new project that will occupy the first and first floors of the Zona C. It was selected in the modality of artistic creation projects to form part of the programme that this space dedicates to emerging art.
29/07/2022 - 14/09/2022
Trinta
I paint ladies strolling, disgruntled lovers and wandering birds. Cliffs and a sea of lead. I paint gentlemen running and now also a man who is two. Who is two. It's me and another me. What a mess. I paint what comes out. The art is in letting it come out.
01/08/2022 - 10/11/2022
Garages in the Ensanche district of Santiago de Compostela host the second edition of the Compostela Photo urban festival, an initiative of Santiago Centro that seeks to revitalise the streets of the Ensanche as a shopping and leisure area, turning them into a unique exhibition space, with the...
03/08/2022 - 30/09/2022
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
Molezún (1920-2001) is one of the pioneering artists of abstraction in Galicia. The exhibition includes more than 45 originals by the great artist from A Coruña, which reveal his great versatility and linguistic and formal richness, as well as the unpublished Ibiza Series, highly...
03/09/2022 - 16/09/2022
Travelling exhibition of the Federación Galega de Redeiras Artesás O Peirao
27/09/2022 - 18/12/2022
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Curated by Carlos L. Bernárdez, historian and art critic, Fue un hombre. Laxeiro in America (Buenos Aires, 1950-1970) brings together forty pieces from various institutions such as the Ramón María Aller Municipal Museum of Lalín, the Museum of Pontevedra and...
27/09/2022 - 10/11/2022
Colexio de Fonseca
The High Cloister of the Colegio de Fonseca hosts from Tuesday 27 September the exhibition 'Microbiology. Exploring beyond the visible', an exhibition sponsored by the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM) and the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN) that comes to Compostela thanks to...
01/10/2022 - 21/10/2022
Centro Comercial Compostela (Hipercor y tiendas El Corte Inglés)
06/10/2022 - 30/06/2023
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The Eugenio Granell Foundation is opening a new exhibition of his works: Granell and his favourite characters, created by his daughter and director of the Foundation, Natalia Fernández, in recognition and homage to her father's immense knowledge of history, literature and mythology. ...
18/10/2022 - 18/02/2023
Centro Cultural Afundación
Imagination as a refuge, inspiration and fundamental source of the creative process, is the premise from which IMAXINARIA, IV edition of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Illustration, brings to the Afundación headquarters in Santiago de Compostela, one more year, what is...
20/10/2022 - 10/11/2022
Centro Abanca Obra Social
The Vivanco Foundation is exhibiting at the Abanca Centre 80 engravings by 53 great artists such as Dürer, Chagall, Miró, Picasso, Warhol, Paula Rego and Chillida: Six centuries of art around wine.
20/10/2022 - 27/10/2022
Trinta
20/10/2022 - 28/01/2023
Colexio de Fonseca
21/10/2022 - 17/04/2023
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
By definition, a place is any given space capable of holding any given thing. What enables us to characterise and distinguish one place from another is precisely the nature of what they hold (people, things, thoughts), as well as the processes and the period in which they were constructed....
26/10/2022 - 29/01/2023
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The exhibition Pánico no museo (Panic at the museum) by the artist María Meijide is part of the Artist in Residence programme, which this year celebrates its sixth edition. In this project, the artists have a space at the Foundation's headquarters to work and create....
28/10/2022 - 28/11/2022
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The Igrexa da Universidade hosts the finalists in the Xuventude Crea contest in the specialities of photography and plastic arts. The winners will be announced at the opening.
01/11/2022 - 12/12/2022
Trinta
Commuting Time, or Cum Tempore, C.T. is a performative work that takes place simultaneously in two galleries. During the whole month of November, a conversation between two people is recorded on video in thirty takes, using the cinematographic resource of the shot-countershot. The...
04/11/2022 - 16/12/2022
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
11/11/2022 - 09/04/2023
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A path can be considered a physical route taken by the body or a means to an end. Walking can be an aesthetic or spiritual experience, a social practice or a form of activism: we walk to discover, both our own and others, and we also walk to create. The exhibition Creative Paths explores...
11/11/2022 - 08/01/2023
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
The LUISA PITA Art Gallery presents on 11 November at 8 p.m. the last exhibition of 2022 with the work of the artist Francesca Poza (Mataró 1965), who joins the Gallery's artists with a project that brings together a total of thirteen works under the title "El papel como materia y el...
13/11/2022 - 30/11/2022
Biblioteca Concepción Arenal
Two decades after the Prestige catastrophe, the USC's Concepción Arenal Library joins the commemoration of this anniversary through the exhibition '20 anos do Prestige. Esa cicatriz indelébel' (20 years of the Prestige. That indelible scar).
15/11/2022 - 06/12/2022
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
15/11/2022 - 25/11/2022
Colexio de Fonseca
The year 2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Carlos López García-Picos (1922-2009), a composer from Betanzos who emigrated to Buenos Aires and studied in Paris.
22/11/2022 - 18/02/2023
Centro Abanca Obra Social
Based on a review of the holdings of the Luciano Méndez Sánchez Collection of Contemporary Cuban Art, the exhibition Sueño de Navegante (Navigator's Dream) invites us to take a journey through the contemporary Cuban art of the last fifty years, exploring different ...
22/11/2022 - 15/01/2023
Auditorio de Galicia
Utopicas. Art and Territory is an experimental project, promoted by the Auditorio de Galicia and designed and coordinated by 7H Cooperativa Cultural, which claims culture as a relational process in which all people have the capacity for expression and creative agency and, therefore, defends...
27/11/2022 - 09/12/2022
Fundación Eugenio Granell
30/11/2022 - 27/01/2023
Facultad de Filología
The Faculty of Philology hosts this exhibition organised to commemorate the centenary of the birth of José Saramago (1922-2010).
01/12/2022 - 20/01/2023
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition of documented astronomical photography, with images by Francisco Javier Cerdán Núñez (@astronomiadevaldeorras) and Salvador Ortega Saura (@astroasac).
05/12/2022 - 29/12/2022
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The Igrexa da Universidade hosts the finalists in the Xuventude Crea contest in the specialities of fashion and jewellery design.
07/12/2022 - 28/02/2023
Facultad de Geografía e Historia
The exhibition aims to highlight the value of Bonxe ceramics, through the work carried out by the Canaveira Ceramological Association and research staff from the University of Santiago de Compostela.
14/12/2022 - 11/02/2023
Zona C
Sequitur is an artistic project that consists of the production of a series of two- and three-dimensional pieces, in wood and fabric, that come from the observation and manipulation that Julia Huete carries out on forms and materials related to clothing. The artist follows lines of research...
15/12/2022 - 15/01/2023
Trinta
Las bellas horas is a photographic essay made up of 12 scenes of a fictitious garden, images constructed as "dioramas", the result of a slow process of observation and experimentation.
19/12/2022 - 23/01/2023
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Galería METRO presents GEOMÉTRICA, a review of the work of three artists who are part of the cast of this gallery, through a selection of abstract works constructed from the reason of geometry. From the designs of ancient cultures, through the works of the main promoters of ...
21/12/2022 - 31/01/2023
The expression that gives the exhibition its name expresses a celebration or greeting that has its origins in the street basketball courts of the United States, where the palm of one hand goes out to meet the other. In this exhibition, the five artists express their duality and extend their...
11/02/2023 - 29/04/2023
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Group exhibition at the DIDAC Foundation, curated by David Barro
12/02/2023 - 01/04/2023
Exhibition of the painter Alfonso Martínez López in the CSC Maruxa e Coralia
07/03/2023 - 11/06/2023
Museo Centro Gaiás
Behind the Mirror. Galicia in the work of foreign authors of the 20th century offers a vision of Galicia through the eyes of 50 renowned names in the arts, science and thought of the last century and a half, men and women of importance in the history of universal culture who delved into the...
09/03/2023 - 30/09/2023
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Arquivo de Galicia, in the Cidade da Cultura, is organising until September the exhibition Forgotten Voices. The women of the Hospital de Conxo. 
14/03/2023 - 25/05/2023
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
After 50 years of music, the group FUXAN OS VENTOS presents in Compostela, and with the help of Afundación, an exhibition with which to go through these five decades of history of one of the great groups of Galician culture.
15/04/2023 - 03/06/2023
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The University Church hosts this exhibition by Portuguese artist Rodrigo Gomes that seeks to explore the space between digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between matter and images generated by computers and machine learning.
20/04/2023 - 25/06/2023
Fundación Eugenio Granell
This exhibition by Alfonso Costa and Isabel Pintado pays a particular plastic tribute to the actress María Casares.
24/04/2023 - 10/06/2023
Colegio de Fonseca
O ronsel do Xelmírez: 178 anos na educación e cultura galegas' offers a glimpse of the cultural and human heritage of the educational institution and "aims to show how this centre became a place of reference in the history of Galician cultural creation over the years, from its...
28/04/2023 - 02/06/2023
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Santi Jiménez: a self-confessed thief on digital steroids In "Mi reino es otro", the artist resorts to simple algorithms to compose some of his works, creating conscious ambiguities between digital and manual work. The artist contrasts manual drawing, created without digital interfaces,...
04/05/2023 - 12/06/2023
Trinta
STAY WITH ME The problem of love and other studies.   An exhibition by Ángela Valella with Roc Laseca.
05/05/2023 - 16/06/2023
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
First solo exhibition in Galicia of the Cordovan artist Miguel Gómez Losada (Cordoba, 1967), who brings to Compostela his particular and romantic visual universe thanks to a selection of works from his latest pictorial series.
16/05/2023 - 14/07/2023
Our town's commercial establishments will serve as a showcase for the 55 works of art created by local residents.
25/05/2023 - 10/09/2023
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The exhibition Detrás do Sol: Granell in Porto Rico is a project curated by the Puerto Rican historian José Correa Vigier.

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