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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

23/01/2024
20:00 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Concert for concrete mixer and ensemble, composed in real time and performed by HOGAR Legido and Ensemble Libertad.
06/02/2024
20:00 | Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
Cycle of concerts for children and adults coordinated by Carmen Hermo and Virgina Villar and directed by Xacobe Martínez Antelo.  
25/04/2024
19:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Carmen López presents her debut album "Quintela", her first work of experimental music for Galician bagpipes. 
05/06/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONFERENCE 2024 - KALEIDOSCOPE CONCERT ENSEMBLE I JONDE Ensemble Modern e JONDE Pablo Rus Broseta, conductor Isabel Rubio, assistant conductor The Joven Orquesta Nacional de España (JONDE) has once again chosen Santiago de Compostela to hold its...
06/06/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONFERENCES 2024 - KALEIDOSCOPECHAMBER CONCERT I Spanish National Youth Orchestra Trío Arbós and Joan Enric Lluna, clarinet Juan Carlos Garvayo, coordinator
07/06/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONFERENCES 2024 - KALEIDOSCOPECHAMBER CONCERT I Spanish National Youth Orchestra Trio Arbós and Joan Enric Lluna, clarinet Juan Carlos Garvayo, coordinator
08/06/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONFERENCE 2024 - KALEIDOSCOPECHAMBER CONCERT III Spanish National Youth Orchestra Trio Arbós and Joan Enric Lluna, clarinet Juan Carlos Garvayo, coordinator
09/06/2024
20:30
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONFERENCES 2024 - KALEIDOSCOPE CONCERT ENSEMBLE II JONDE Ensemble Modern and JONDE Pablo Rus Broseta, conductor Isabel Rubio, assistant conductor
28/06/2024
19:30 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Universe between Songs is a show that merges art and science. More specifically, the show interweaves a set of narratives about the cosmos (its birth, the night sky, the stars that populate it, our place in the universe, etc.) with celebratory songs of its own.
15/09/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The ensemble Música Práctica inaugurates the cycle Ópticas contemporáneas 2024 of the Cidade da Cultura on Sunday 15 September with a journey through the most recent musical creation that culminates in a premiere work by Fernando Buide, specifically written for the...
18/10/2024
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mudar la piel is a work in which images, sounds and words are the vehicles for transmitting to the audience aspects of today's society that are also the object of research for anthropology and the social sciences. This unique piece will be performed by its creators, the teacher and researcher...

Dance

22/10/2023
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Show as part of the fifth edition of the Camiño Escena Norte programme.
29/02/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Òscar Cobos Compañía de Danza

Theatre

03/05/2024 - 05/05/2024
Escenas do cambio, the Cidade da Cultura's festival of theatre, dance and art in action, celebrates its tenth edition from 3 to 5 May 2024. Directed by dancer and choreographer Kirenia Martínez, this anniversary is conceived as a celebration of the festival's trajectory and its...

Dance

16/05/2024 - 25/05/2024
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 16 and 25, the festival will energize the streets and squares of the city, with performances, music, film, dance, stage...
18/06/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
SOMOS is a dialogue between two bodies and all their paths. A conversation that conveys an intimate message in the present moment. Encarna symbolises a moment of connection.
21/06/2024 - 22/06/2024
20:30 | Salón Teatro
Tradition and modernity. Strength and resilience. Unionism and empowerment. Solidarity and community. Celebration and rebirth. A whole series of emotions and feelings converge in Dique to tell the story of those 200 silenced women who 150 years ago dug the Dique de la Campana in Ferrol. Nova...
28/12/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Demente is a work of dance and traditional music by Fran Sieira Compañía de Danza that addresses the stigma of pathologies linked to mental health. On stage, the choreography shows the historical evolution that people with mental health disorders suffered, and still suffer, from...

For children

03/11/2023
20:30 | Museo do Pobo Galego
A dramatised performance by Tero Rodríguez and Lucho Penabade, specialists in spreading bits of our history.
13/05/2024 - 14/05/2024
10:30 | Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
Cycle of concerts for children and adults coordinated by Carmen Hermo and Virgina Villar and directed by Xacobe Martínez Antelo.  

Cinema

09/11/2023 - 25/11/2023
From November 9 to 25, the event will bring 115 films to theaters in Compostela and numerous parallel activities, with concerts and special screenings, round tables and workshops on cinema. In 2023, the Cineuropa Awards will honor the careers of actor Luis Zahera, Portuguese director...

Others

26/12/2023 - 31/12/2023
11:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This Christmas, the Cidade da Cultura invites you to a special programme of guided tours to understand the artistic and aesthetic origins behind the design of the Gaiás buildings. In this innovative tour, full of references to the plastic creation of the 20th century, we will decipher...

Conferences

29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023
Facultade de Xeografía e Historia
The effort devoted by contemporary art museums to the construction and presentation of their collections became a priority and a fundamental discursive axis of artistic debates. The exhibition Implosion: conceptual art in the CGAC Collection (1965-1975), understood as a case study and as a...
27/02/2024
19:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Talk by María José Domínguez entitled: "Roteiro pola psique. A travelogue to the interior". 

Exhibitions

21/09/2023 - 26/11/2023
Exhibition at the Dupla Gallery with works by the artists Yolanda Dorda and Roberto González Fernández.    
21/09/2023 - 09/11/2023
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Pierre Louis Geldenhuys (South Africa, 1971) returns to Compostela with De dagas y lloros , his new exhibition which brings us 11 of his latest pieces, encapsulated textiles that make up a compact and representative sample of the South African artist's work over the last two years.
Free
21/09/2023 - 28/10/2023
Trinta
Miralda's exhibition is part of Aberto, a joint opening event of the exhibition season, organised by CONTEMPORÁNEA.    
28/09/2023 - 22/12/2023
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
The designer Pepe Barro exhibits at the DIDAC Foundation the design notebooks of his fifty years of work, which is a sort of cartography of Galicia. A total of 66 notebooks of various formats that were used throughout his professional career and which for the designer "are the places where...
29/09/2023 - 14/01/2024
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
The project Implosion. Conceptual Art in the CGAC Collection takes precisely two of these exhibitions as its starting point: the group exhibition The Human Stain, where the work of Joseph Kosuth was particularly relevant, and the Bas Jan Ader solo exhibition In Search...
10/10/2023 - 31/12/2023
Fundación Eugenio Granell
One of the artist's most attractive and least shown areas are his toys, some of them related to the different places where the artist lived with his family and others like fetishes that take us back to specific moments and spaces where some of Granell's most representative pieces were created.
16/10/2023 - 30/11/2023
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Since the 50s of the last century, music has always had a strong relationship with the designed band. This relationship intensified with the counterculture in which both forms of expression took centre stage. The lives of the musicians and musicians and their work were faithfully...
17/10/2023 - 27/01/2024
Centro Cultural Afundación
Afundación, the Social Work of ABANCA, is hosting, until 27 January, this exhibition as part of the "Culture for Food" programme. Through a multidisciplinary journey through the production of pop culture, visitors will be able to see pieces and authorship present in emblematic works...
23/10/2023 - 07/01/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Born as a reflection on the temporal immobility of contemporary capitalism, Joel Blanco's La inauguración explores the notion of the perpetual present: an endless cycle where the past refuses to fade away and the future seems elusive. This artistic intervention invites us to question our...
02/11/2023 - 11/12/2023
Trinta
Exhibition by Juan Fernándes Álava
10/11/2023 - 18/12/2023
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition of paintings by Federico Granell
17/11/2023 - 12/01/2024
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Exhibition by the artist from A Coruña edu_ALBO
Free
26/11/2023 - 26/01/2024
Galería Nordés
This project by Nicolás Combarro reflects on the architectures of repression that subjected Spanish Republicans in Spain and France.
29/11/2023 - 28/04/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Gaiás Centre Museum brings together a selection of paintings and drawings by José María Barreiro in an exhibition that pays tribute to the painter from Forcarei, who continued the renovation of Laxeiro's historical avant-gardism and post-avant-gardism.
29/11/2023 - 25/02/2024
Auditorio de Galicia
The Auditorio de Galicia Award reaches its thirteenth edition with the aim of providing new artists with a place for dissemination and encounters with the different viewpoints of professional visitors and the general public. The jury selected 33 works that will form part of the exhibition and...
01/12/2023 - 31/01/2024
In 1986 Brian O'Doherty published his essay "Inside the White Cube" in New York. This Irish doctor, who abandoned medicine to devote himself to art as a visual artist and critic, is to blame for the existence of spaces such as this gallery. A white cube, that room in which the windows are...
15/12/2023 - 30/01/2024
Trinta
Exhibition by Antonio Faria
18/12/2023 - 15/01/2024
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
Gabinete de curiosidades y maravillas contains a wide selection of graphic works and works on paper, as well as small-format originals aimed at new collectors. There are numerous references to the historical avant-garde, the 900, the renovators, us, or the xeración doente, but also to...
18/01/2024 - 17/01/2024
EXHIBITION SCULPTURE : THE PATHS OF THE SOUL  AUTHOR: Salvador Alonso Pérez (Leon 1959) doctor in medicine, paediatric surgeon and sculptor.
19/01/2024 - 29/02/2024
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Group exhibition featuring the work of Menchu Lamas, Rut Massó and Ana Margarita Ramírez.
26/01/2024 - 05/04/2024
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Javier Arce presents at the DIDAC Foundation a series of works painted in oil on linen stretched over natural wood structures of ash, hazel, oak or eucalyptus, turning the frame into something irregular and organic that contrasts with the usual minimalist austerity in painting. All this makes...
01/02/2024 - 06/04/2024
Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
This exhibition is based on revisiting the plastic and vital project of the artist Paco Pestana, through an exhibition that revolves around works, documentation and other elements of the artist, which are in private collections, trying to show the intense personality of this artist in a journey...
01/02/2024 - 15/03/2024
Trinta
Photographic exhibition by Vari Caramés
09/02/2024 - 17/03/2024
The Latin expression "Nulla dies sine linea" ("not a day without a line") comes to us through Pliny the Elder and is attributed to the painter Apelles of Colophon, who apparently could not go a single day without painting a line. Cristina Fernández Núñez's work...
14/02/2024 - 16/03/2024
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
An exhibition dedicated to the Galician landscape. Here we can observe the variety of treatment depending on the author and the period within the same theme. Among these authors we can highlight Carmen Rodríguez de Legísima, Ovidio Murguía, Alfredo Souto or Carlos Sobrino.
22/02/2024 - 21/04/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Exhibition by the artist Pía Piadosa curated by María Moreno Bueno.  
24/02/2024 - 01/09/2024
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
The most complete and comprehensive vision of an artist's work becomes possible when we have the opportunity to examine his artistic production throughout his career. An opportunity to travel through time, having as a horizon the works that are the result of work and dedication to the singular...
27/02/2024 - 30/06/2024
Casa do Cabido
Photographic exhibition by Denís Estévez  
08/03/2024 - 08/04/2024
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
Until 8 April, the University Church is exhibiting images and information on a selection of works that deal with themes such as the integration of buildings into the environment, interior design and landscaping.
15/03/2024 - 03/05/2024
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
New solo exhibition by Galician photographer Juan Adrio
21/03/2024 - 31/12/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The English artist, born in 1949 and died in Zaragoza in 1997, thus recreates a fantastic world in which imaginary characters acquire the status of reality and everyday objects are contemplated from an innovative vision that gives them a halo of fiction. His imagination led him to capture...
21/03/2024 - 10/05/2024
Trinta
Antonio Murado's pictorial exhibition
01/04/2024 - 02/02/2025
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Salto cuántico (Quantum Leap) is an interactive sculpture with three mobile, interchangeable modules. It adopts the structure of the first computers from the nineteen-forties—contemporary totems on casters that allow constant updates, making this an open structure in the...
02/04/2024 - 30/06/2024
Auditorio de Galicia
#Punctum puts two irrefutable realities on the table: that the designed band is art and that the Galician BD artists possess a visual power and an artistic discourse of the first order.
04/04/2024 - 31/05/2024
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition of figures by Álvaro de la Vega
05/04/2024 - 15/05/2024
The DUPLA gallery opens on 5 April the exhibition "Cola, papel, tesoira" by the artists Alba Casanova and Iván Prieto.
18/04/2024 - 09/06/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
This exhibition is a meeting of the work of Lo Súper and Aurora Duque de La Torre with Amparo Segarra, through an exhibition based on the collage technique.
20/04/2024 - 30/06/2024
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
CICAGallery is an artistic residency project of the Interdisciplinary Center of Chemistry and Biology (CICA) of the University of A Coruña in which five artists participated and lived for almost three months with a research group of the center. 
25/04/2024 - 31/05/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
A project by visual artist Raquel Díaz on the process of creating an illustrated book on the recent history of Beira Alta, in the interior of Portugal, narrated through popular memory.
08/05/2024 - 16/06/2024
The exhibition establishes a dialogue between the literature of the French philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir (Paris, 1908-1986) and the plastic art of the illustrator Sara Herranz. 
10/05/2024 - 21/06/2024
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Menchu Lamas Exhibition
14/05/2024 - 31/05/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
The artistic installation A Galicia do presente, is an initiative of the project of dynamization of the emergent Galician culture Galicia Latente, promoted by Eduardo de Martís and based on the homonymous study-book of photographic collection and dissemination.
16/05/2024 - 30/06/2024
Trinta
Si tú no estás by artist Roberto Lisboa (Bahia, Brazil, 1968) presents a solid body of embroidered works initiated during the pandemic period to more recent productions.
25/05/2024 - 21/07/2024
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Curated by Iñaki Martínez Antelo, the exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Appleton Associação Cultural de Lisboa and the DIDAC Foundation and forms part of the activities of the Plataforma. Festival de Artes Performativas de Santiago de...
28/05/2024 - 26/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Other Possible Stories brings together the work of six contemporary artists born in the 1950s and linked to Galicia in their lives and careers, whose careers are worth reviewing and contextualising in order, as the title of the project states, to generate other stories to complement those...
07/06/2024 - 31/12/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
One of the most important issues in Amparo Segarra's construction project is the space and the place where the scene takes place. A concept that forms an important part on a personal level from the development of her work as an actress to the actual representation of a space in which to place a...
07/06/2024 - 31/12/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Exhibition commemorating the centenary of the First Manifesto of Surrealism published in 1924 in Paris by André Breton (1896-1966).
07/06/2024 - 31/12/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Eugenio Granell and Carlos Maside were two Galician artists who coincided in the same space at different times, only 15 years apart. Two different ways of surviving, a key period for both artists to find their artistic voice. Granell deepened his relationship with the plastic arts through...
27/06/2024 - 28/09/2024
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Exhibition La fuerza simulada by Judith Adataberna, curated by Eduardo Valiña.
Free
28/06/2024 - 10/09/2024
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
In this exhibition, Paula Vincenti captures the essence and the pulse of everyday life through a subject matter that ranges from the media to fashion and the consumer society and its particular impact on women.
28/06/2024 - 12/09/2024
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Rut Massó Exhibition
04/07/2024 - 15/09/2024
Trinta
That's not what we're going to deal with now (although it doesn't mean we won't give it a couple of turns later on), it's an exhibition by Andrés Michelena with Roc Laseca.
10/09/2024 - 31/10/2024
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
The exhibition Galicia, Procesos e Formas. Historia do deseño e da cultura visual is a new version of the exhibition of Galicia's representation at the last edition of the Porto Design Biennale entitledGalicia. Procesos e formas, in which objects, examples of applied graphics, materials,...
19/09/2024 - 31/10/2024
Exhibition by Lula Goce in the framework of Aberto 2024.
19/09/2024 - 24/10/2024
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
This exhibition, Suso Basterrechea's (Ferrol, 1968) third in the underground, is presented to us as a new stage in the artist's career. New images, new colours, new supports,... expand the range of plastic resources of a work that preserves the analytical and irreverent essence to which we are...
19/09/2024 - 08/11/2024
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Exhibition by the sculptor Fernando Suárez Reguera as part of the Aberto'24 programme.
Free
19/09/2024 - 27/10/2024
Trinta
Exhibition of paintings by Juana González
20/09/2024 - 19/01/2025
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Curated by Natàlia Chocarro, director of External Projects at the Fundació Vila Casas, the exhibition has been conceived for the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, which is hosting for the first time the work of this Catalan artist.