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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

09/12/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
The flautist from Santiago, André Cebrián, and guitarist Pedro Mateo González present a programme that traces a true sound map of the ocean within the Contemporáneas series.    

Dance

30/03/2025
18:30
Danzade was created in 2024 with the intention of highlighting equality in dance. It was also born with the aim of showing different dance disciplines that exist in our society and that connect in some way with each other. In 2025 it will continue along the lines of equality in dance, but will...
03/05/2025
20:00 | Casa das Máquinas
As part of the celebration of the 15-year trajectory of the Danza a Escena program, the Compostela Cultura agenda presents a double bill of free-access performances to enjoy the art of movement. Two stage works, PIES DE GALLINA and ZENEZ, take us to a space where contemporary dance becomes a...
24/05/2025
11:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Movement workshop with Janet Novás
02/11/2025
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
A performance that combines music, dance, and images to honor the legacy of Ruth Matilda Anderson and her Galicia, creating a visual and emotional experience that invites us to see and be seen.
09/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ON TIME invites reflection on the concept of time through contemporary dance. Choreographers Amaya Galeote, María Cabeza de Vaca and Maite Gámez explore new artistic challenges with dancers and performers with and without disabilities.    
10/04/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
QUISO NEGRO explores death through movement, inspired by tarantism, a medieval ritual from southern Italy. The piece combines choreography and music to depict possession, catharsis, and physical exhaustion, offering a celebratory and vitalistic journey through the end of life.
07/05/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ALÉN is a contemporary dance creation exploring the “beyond” as a process, an intermediate space where identity dissolves to emerge transformed. Four dancers offer a poetic, sensory, and energetic experience.

Theatre

20/01/2026
12:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
On Tuesday, January 20, an Ensaio Aberto Fábrica Nº 6 immersive theatre open rehearsal will take place with Tyler McKechnie from Oístes Teatro and Gloria Rico from Teatro en Punto.
25/04/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
FIRMAMENTO is an exploration of identity and our connection to the world. In a constantly changing space, characters move between reality and imagination, offering a reflection on life, dreams, and the essential questions that accompany us.    

Cinema

01/07/2025 - 06/07/2025
22nd edition of the International Festival of Cinema and Visual Arts.
21/01/2026
18:30 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
As part of the exhibition Nicasso, the CGAC hosts the first of a series of commented film sessions dedicated to the work of Carlos Pazos. The programme includes Art¡ss!mo (2015), a collage film that examines the figure of the artist in the imagery of commercial cinema and its influence on...
27/01/2026
18:30 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
The second commented film session dedicated to the work of Carlos Pazos features screenings of Mnemocine. Película recortable (2006) and Yo inventé unos Llopis (2012). Through film collage, memory, music and popular culture become creative material in a personal and experimental...

Courses and workshops

20/05/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Sound workshop as part of the Contemporáneas Cycle
07/02/2026
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
In the workshop From Wood to Cloth, we will follow the reverse path of the artist, printing floral motifs, plant shapes and organic elements onto fabric—an accessible, contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional pañuelo aesthetic present in Asorey’s work.  

Guided visits

24/05/2025
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
As the final event of the exhibition Ollos de vidro, curator Germán Labrador and researcher María Bella, Germán’s curatorial assistant for this project, invite us to take part in a public tour — the last chance to visit the show through a guided experience.
27/01/2026
11:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
On the occasion of International Day of the Art Conservator, the Conservation-Restoration department will carry out preventive work on the Foundation’s current exhibitions, accompanied by interested visitors. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe part of the tasks carried out...

Others

21/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
The Plataforma Festival is an unmissable annual event for lovers of culture and the arts, bringing together diverse audiences with its interdisciplinary approach. Between May 21 and 25, the festival will energize the streets and squares of the city, with performances, music, film, dance, stage...
Free
07/07/2025 - 16/07/2025
Seventh edition of Delas Fest, a feminist programme of contextual urban art.
11/08/2025 - 14/08/2025
Casa das Máquinas
The RPM Collective, in collaboration with the Auditorio de Galicia, is launching a workshop with artist Tânia Carvalho aimed at artists in the field of performing arts interested in sharing a collective experience around the artistic universe of this Portuguese choreographer.
Free
13/09/2025
18:30 | Museo do Pobo Galego
HERITAGE NIGHT · HERITAGE SCENE Performance by Lorena Nogal.
19/09/2025 - 21/09/2025
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
Artesanamente Market | Creativity and tradition A space where creativity and Galician tradition go hand in hand.
27/09/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Horizontes Errantes (Wandering Horizons) is an artistic pilgrimage between Germany and Spain, a project of art in motion in which Laura Arís and Jakob Jautz transform the experience of walking into a theatrical creation of contemporary dance, music and physical theatre.

Conferences

13/03/2025
17:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Taking advantage of Fermin Muguruza's visit to Compostela as part of the tour celebrating 40 years of his career, Compostela Cultura programmes a discussion between the Basque musician and producer and the exhibition curator Germán Labrador about the capacity of cultural artefacts to...

Exhibitions

18/10/2024 - 07/09/2025
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Exhibition by Pilar Albarracín
10/12/2024 - 09/02/2025
Zona C
Nerea Cordeiro presents Sobre debuxar, fiar e habitar, one of the works selected in the call for artistic intervention projects for the Zona C. 
28/01/2025 - 25/05/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
This exhibition is an artistic and historical reflection on the identity of Galicia. Curated by Germán Labrador Méndez, this exhibition combines art, memory and modernity to offer a new perspective of our history.
30/01/2025 - 04/05/2025
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Alberto’s exhibition is marked by a strong autobiographical character, utilizing various formats such as illustrations, paintings, collages, and audiovisual pieces with a wide range of techniques, from oil and acrylic to graphite, with drawing as the main tool and medium of expression to...
Free
31/01/2025 - 25/05/2025
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
As part of its programme featuring mid-career artists, the CGAC is delighted to present an individual exhibition of the work of Mar Caldas, a pioneer of feminist art in Galicia. Her work, which is fundamentally photographic, is constantly renewing its stance as a means of protest against the...
Free
06/02/2025 - 20/03/2025
Trinta
Exhibition by Bosco Caride that talks about what does not appear in the painting.
07/02/2025 - 11/03/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Joint exhibition by Lúa Gándara and Sebas Anxo.
Free
07/02/2025 - 21/03/2025
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Leo Wellmar Exhibition
07/02/2025 - 16/03/2025
The exhibition ‘Lo que cabe en una almendra’ by the artist Lara Pintos, from A Coruña, shows a very personal vision of the city of Santiago de Compostela.
14/02/2025 - 01/06/2025
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Through still and moving images, reused objects, everyday sounds, photographs, interviews, works created for radio, video performances and documents - many of them from the media and its noise - Jerez and Iges compose a kind of visual and sound landscape that analyses, strains, describes and...
18/02/2025 - 12/04/2025
Zona C
Zona C hosts the curatorial work selected in the selection of artistic intervention projects for Zona C. The curator and researcher Sergio Meijide Casas (A Coruña, 1996), presents a journey through the kinesthetic universe of the choreographer, dancer and researcher of the moving arts,...
20/02/2025 - 04/05/2025
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Philip West Exhibition
20/02/2025 - 20/04/2025
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Photographic exhibition by Juan Barreto.
Free
21/02/2025 - 16/05/2025
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Carlos Aires Exhibition
04/03/2025 - 27/03/2025
Centro Sociocultural Maruxa e Coralia
Compostela e a auga' is an exhibition of students of the Espacio de Arte Mareiras that tries to raise awareness about the importance of this good through the plastic arts.
14/03/2025 - 22/04/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition of contemporary geometric abstraction by Anabel Álvarez Goyanes.
27/03/2025 - 30/04/2025
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
Pictorial and sculptural exhibition with a selection of works by both artists. 
27/03/2025 - 04/05/2025
Trinta
Exhibition by Amaya González Reyes
04/04/2025 - 24/04/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
The Museo do Pobo Galegose joins the tributes to the intellectual and artist Isaac Díaz Pardo, protagonist of the Día das Artes Galegas, with a programme of events in memory of the former founding member and president of its Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2011.
04/04/2025 - 18/05/2025
Exhibition by the artist Diego Cabezas from A Coruña
04/04/2025 - 31/05/2025
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
A new solo exhibition featuring the sensorial exuberance and chromatic explosion of the painting of the artist Alejandra Atarés (Zaragoza, 1987). 
08/04/2025 - 07/09/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rafael Úbeda has been painting for seven decades. The exhibition Rafael Úbeda. Retrospective view offers a complete overview of his creative career, delving into the most important milestones of his work and the representative pieces that marked each stage of his career.
10/04/2025 - 30/08/2025
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
Plurality as a central concept that nurtures styles, techniques and perspectives is the idea behind DIVERSA, V Mostra Internacional de Ilustración Contemporánea Afundación #MiiC5, which brings to Santiago de Compostela a selection of the most representative proposals of...
25/04/2025 - 23/05/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition by Guillermo Simón, an Asturian artist with almost 40 individual exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions behind him.
30/04/2025 - 22/06/2025
Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
Gregg Simpson exhibition, curated by Allan Graubard
08/05/2025 - 10/06/2025
Trinta
Galería Trinta presents Aproximación formal, an exhibition by artist Xurxo Martiño that explores the boundaries of form through a precise and sensitive approach to gesture and space. In this show, Martiño unfolds a series of works where matter, geometry, and texture...
15/05/2025 - 28/06/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition by Madrid-based artists Consuelo Chacón and Patricia Mateo, and fellow Madrilenian artist José Luis López Moral.  
23/05/2025 - 29/06/2025
Galería Dupla
Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by the artist Xaquín Chaves
24/05/2025 - 30/06/2025
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Exhibition by the multifaceted Portuguese artist Francisca Aires Mateus.
27/05/2025 - 31/05/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
A project curated by Eduardo Valiña to commemorate the museum's thirtieth anniversary.
27/05/2025 - 31/05/2026
Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
The exhibition Boutique Amparo, curated by Eduardo Valiña is part of the exhibitions commemorating the museum's thirtieth anniversary.      
30/05/2025 - 01/07/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition by Adrián García from Madrid
05/06/2025 - 23/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Plastic biontes is an intervention in the Hejduk Towers that aims to establish a dialogue, through rubbish, between the city of culture and the city of Santiago. The towers as beacons, as social reference points, as symbols that unite history, memory and the possibility of a future yet to be...
06/06/2025 - 31/07/2025
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Third solo exhibition in Galicia by artist Laura Nieto. The show brings together 12 paintings in which the artist offers a visual and symbolic journey through landscapes where nature and the human footprint coexist in constant ambiguity.
06/06/2025 - 07/09/2025
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
The exhibition brings together works from all of Priscilla Monge's periods, focusing on those with a special social significance, and proposes a review of her work as an anticipatory and seminal work of feminist concerns about everyday life that are still relevant today.
18/06/2025 - 25/09/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
Facémolo co corpo. A performance é cousa de mulleres brings together the work of a significant number of artists, each capable of shaping a narrative around the history of performance art since the late 1960s, when this artistic language began to flourish
04/07/2025 - 17/08/2025
Galería Dupla
The Dupla gallery presents Common people until mid-August, featuring artists Natalia Umpiérrez (Pontevedra, 1982) and Nuria Figueiredo (Ourense, 1986), who offer two complementary views of reality: Umpiérrez uses humor, irreverence, and the grotesque in her ceramic and paper works...
10/07/2025 - 12/10/2025
Fundación Eugenio Granell
An evocative exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, curated by Miguel de Carvalho, will be on view until October 12. This international project is organized by Miguel de Carvalho in collaboration with the late Brazilian surrealist artist Sergio Lima. The traveling...
Free
14/07/2025 - 01/09/2025
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
The José Lorenzo Art Gallery hosts an unprecedented exhibition bringing together works from several generations of Galician creators, connecting the committed art of Castelao, the humanist and innovative legacy of Isaac Díaz Pardo, the disruptive momentum of the 1980s, and the...
15/07/2025 - 31/08/2025
Hotel Virxe da Cerca ****
Exhibition by Abel Barandela
28/08/2025 - 11/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Phygital Land explores the construction of virtual space from the physical dimension, reflecting on how we perceive the digital and the tangible when both worlds intertwine. The term phygital—which combines physical and digital—defines a hybrid experience that runs throughout the...
05/09/2025 - 30/09/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition “Lying with Mastery. Photographic Montages by Augusto Pacheco (1948-1973)”, curated by photographers Vítor Vaquero and Manuel Pérez Rúa and visual artist Ánxel Huete.
12/09/2025 - 26/09/2025
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Exhibition Deconstruction by textile artist Pierre Louis Geldenhuys.
12/09/2025 - 10/02/2026
Galería Defímeras
An artistic project conceived and directed by Carlos Martínez Casanova and Ana Dorrego, proposing a visual, symbolic, and critical reinterpretation of some of the most iconic works in the history of Western art.
Free
17/09/2025 - 31/10/2025
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The artist Amabel Míguez de la Sierra presents the exhibition ‘Abuso’ at the University Church. On this occasion, the creator shows works on paper, mainly drawings, sometimes of large format, allowing her to combine a technique as basic as drawing with an original...
18/09/2025 - 04/11/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Of Vegetables and Panthers: Artist Montse Rego presents her new project based on the still life, exploring this genre as an accumulation and selection of objects and their arrangement in space. The proposal focuses on composition, light, and color, transferring the pictorial tradition into...
18/09/2025 - 07/11/2025
Galería Dupla
The exhibition Face to Face is presented by artists Samuel Salcedo (Barcelona, 1975) and Sito Mújica (Sabadell, Barcelona, 1971).  
18/09/2025 - 07/11/2025
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
On September 18, Galería Luisa Pita will inaugurate the exhibition LOVE IS POP by Salustiano, coinciding with the opening of Aberto 2025, the event organized by Contemporánea (the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of Galicia), which from September 18 to 20...
18/09/2025 - 07/11/2025
Trinta
Exhibition by Alberto Ardid
25/09/2025 - 28/11/2025
Facultad de Filología
From September 25, the first floor of the Faculty of Philology will host the exhibition The Creative Emotion. Manuel Gómez Román and Galicianist Architecture, which explores the career of the architect from Vigo, a leading figure of Galicianism and a key exponent of...
25/09/2025 - 17/01/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Exhibition by artist Iago Fernández Díaz
26/09/2025 - 08/02/2026
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Twenty-six years after the CGAC’s historic series on science, technology, and art, the exhibition Perception and Uncertainty revives that essential dialogue between the humanities and scientific research. The show offers an immersive experience that encourages reflection on the limits of...
27/09/2025 - 23/12/2025
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Exhibition by Tamara Feijoo
Free
10/10/2025 - 08/02/2026
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
Nicasso is a work by Carlos Pazos (Barcelona, 1949), created in 2006 and acquired shortly thereafter by the CGAC to be included in the exhibition La sombra de la historia, a show focused on the personal or secret archives and collections of various artists.
10/10/2025 - 01/03/2026
Auditorio de Galicia
Exhibition of the finalist works in the fourteenth edition of this Galician contemporary creation competition, a space for showcasing the work of artists and for meeting with a broad and diverse audience that also includes professionals from the field.  
16/10/2025 - 01/01/2026
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
The José Lorenzo Art Gallery in Santiago hosts the exhibition Luz Atlántica, dedicated to the Vigo-born artists José Frau (1898–1976) and Ángel Sevillano (1942–1994). The show features thirty works exploring light, colour and form through two...
16/10/2025 - 28/02/2026
Colexio de Fonseca
The Colexio de Fonseca will host the exhibition Speculative Fictions from October 16, a collective show exploring how contemporary artists use science fiction, dreams, and oracles as tools to construct alternative visions of the world and the future. 
28/10/2025 - 05/04/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
It is the final major exhibition project of the year at the Cidade da Cultura. A show that delves, from a contemporary perspective, into the complex aesthetic world of the artist who managed to synthesise the new European sculptural movements with Galician roots.
06/11/2025 - 24/01/2026
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
Stéphane Levallois, acclaimed creator of fantastic cinema, presents “Goya-Hellboy. An Iconography of Monsters”, exploring Goya’s monsters in dialogue with the superhero Hellboy. The exhibition features 72 original illustrations, key Goya prints, and works by Hellboy...
14/11/2025 - 16/12/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition by contemporary Galician artist Lomarti.
Free
14/11/2025 - 08/01/2026
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
In Óxido, Álvarez reflects on deterioration and transformation as metaphors for contemporary society, while also pointing toward renewal and hope. Inspired by the natural processes of decay and regeneration, he offers a visual and symbolic journey that explores the expressive...
14/11/2025
Galería Dupla
Curated by Laura Darriba, the exhibition celebrates difference as a creative force and explores the freedom with which the artists shape their work — staying true to their own voices and breaking away from convention. Through distinct styles and perspectives, the four artists...
20/11/2025 - 15/01/2026
Trinta
Exhibition marking the gallery's 40th anniversary. 
10/12/2025 - 07/02/2026
Zona "C"
Compostela-born artist Ana Moure Rosende presents at Zona C Accumulations of a Very Past Present, an installation developed with the artistic research collective La cuarta piel.
Free
16/01/2026 - 28/02/2026
Galería Dupla
DUPLA gallery presents the exhibition Absurdo, by Iván Prieto and ZËsar Bahamonte. The show brings together sculpture, painting and mural practices to explore the concept of the absurd, drawing inspiration from Albert Camus’ philosophy and the human search for meaning. 
16/01/2026 - 13/03/2026
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
The LUISA PITA gallery presents the group exhibition Convivencias, a show that brings together the work of Martina Rodríguez Morán, Alejandra Atarés, Laura Nieto and Ana Margarita Ramírez. Four artists with well-established careers whose pictorial...
16/01/2026 - 24/04/2026
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
The DIDAC Foundation presents The Barro Archive, an exhibition based on the archive of Galician designer Pepe Barro, deposited in the Foundation since 2024. The exhibition offers insight into his career from the 1970s to today, highlighting editorial design, visual identity projects, and his...
22/01/2026 - 08/03/2026
Trinta
In this exhibition, Eduardo Gruber explores silence, listening and imagination as essential elements of the creative process. Through graphite, charcoal and watercolours, the artist creates a visual narrative in which black and white, anxiety and calm, reason and dream coexist. Drawing...
05/02/2026 - 18/03/2026
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
Water, Mud and Capital places us before the open wound running through the earth’s rivers and riverbeds. Àlvar Calvet examines how the system has transformed the primordial element of life into a speculative commodity. The exhibition arrives in Galicia at a critical moment,...
06/02/2026 - 03/05/2026
11:00 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
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...
12/02/2026 - 05/04/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The Fundación Eugenio Granell opens the exhibition by artist Sergio Marey, curated by Eduardo Valiña, which will be on view until April 5. Titled Arrieire no camiño, Marey presents a critical approach to tradition, understood not as fixed heritage but as...
27/02/2026 - 31/05/2026
11:00 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Lluís Hortalà (Olot, Xirona, 1959) xoga co engano e a confusión da mirada, mergullándose na arte do trompe l’oeil. Centrándose coidadosamente no detalle, incide nunha pintura realista ata o extremo, que é mimética coas texturas e os...