The tattoo owes its name to the Polynesian tatau, which Captain Cook's European crew discovered in the 18th century. The evolution of this practice is the result of exchanges between countries, between marginal and mainstream currents, between centers and peripheries. Now overexposed due to the development of the internet and the media attention it attracts, the tattoo writes its contemporary history in sync with technological advances.
On the occasion of the award ceremony of the Medallas de Galicia 2024, the Gaiás Centre Museum will be closed to the public on Wednesday 24 July from 10.00 to 16.00 hours. During this time, it will not be possible to visit the building and the exhibitions, and the guided tours will also be suspended. It will reopen in the afternoon (from 16.00 to 20.00 h).
Other Possible Stories brings together the work of six contemporary artists — born in the 1950s and connected to Galicia through their life and professional paths — whose careers are worth revisiting and contextualising to generate new narratives, as the project's title suggests, that complement the well-known ones. The exhibition, curated by researcher and art critic Susana Cendán, focuses on Ana García Pan, Emilia Guimeráns, Anne Heyvaert, Tusi Sandoval, Blanca Silva, and Laura Terré, who began to stand out in the 1980s.
Escenas do cambio, the Cidade da Cultura's festival of theatre, dance and art in action, celebrates its 10th 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 transformative capacity for artists, spaces and audiences.
The international exhibition A Viking Life is one of the standout projects in the 2024 programming of the Cidade da Cultura. It comprises around 120 pieces, with about a hundred coming from outside Spain and belonging to renowned history and archaeology museums in Europe focusing on Viking culture, including four national museums and a national library. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Irene García Losquiño, a scholar with a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Aberdeen, specializing in the Viking Age.
Royal Treasures. Masterpieces from the Terra Sancta Museum is an international exhibition that displays in Santiago de Compostela the extraordinary and little-known artistic treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem. These treasures comprise donations from European Catholic monarchies spanning 500 years. This si the first and only time that these pieces from Jerusalem will be seen in Spain, exhibited at Gaiás between 22 March and 4 August 2024.
Habitats. Extended Nature is an immersive sensory experience that takes you through the diversity of ecosystems on planet Earth on a journey across the five continents. Combining the physical and digital worlds in a single layer, without leaving the Gaiás Centre Museum, Habitats transports us to nine destinations where we can live and interact with animals and plants recreated thanks to virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.
The magic and fantasy return to Gaiás: Imaginary City is back! On 9 September we say goodbye to summer in style, with the company of jugglers, trapeze artists, tightrope walkers, acrobats, clowns, and fabulous, fantastic characters of all kinds, who return to fill every corner of the City of Culture with fun.
Diego Vidal reflects on the lack of communication in today's society with an intervention in which three human figures, close but isolated from each other, turn their backs towards the world around them. Taking as a starting point the ideas of the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han on the alienation caused by the abuse and misuse of new technologies, the Galician artist tries to draw attention to the loss of contact with the proximate reality, specifically with the natural environment.
