Honi Ryan: Major museum show 'Creative Paths' at the City of Culture, Galicia

Social-performance artist Honi Ryan exhibits in major museum show with great masters, titled 'Creative Paths' at the City of Culture, Galicia.

The exhibition runs until 9th April 2023 in Santiago de Compostela : Edificio Museo Centro Gaiás, Monte Gaiás s/n, 15707 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña

Opening times : Tuesday — Sunday | 10 a.m. — 8 p.m

Free of charge

Honi Ryan in Creative Paths exhibition, Museo Centro Gaias, 2022. Photo: Rocío Cibes for Cidade da Cultura

'Creative Paths' explores the relationship between art and movement, and examines how 'walking' is a determining factor in the creative process. Curated by Monserrat Pis Marcos, the exhibition has a strong international focus with works from around thirty museums and collections from eight European countries.

'Creative Paths' presents an outstanding selection of contemporary makers, including Francis Alÿs, Mona Hatoum, Honi Ryan, Richard Long, David Hockney, Jeppe Hein, Cristina Iglesias, Jesús Soto,  Julian Opie, Marina Abramović & Ulay, and Dora Garcia.

The exhibition also includes works by great masters, such as J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Théodore Rousseau, Camille Corot, Carlos de Haes, as well as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Guy Debord and the DADA group.

Creative Paths explores the link between movement and art and looks in depth at how travelling on foot is a determining factor in the creative process. In the final stretch of the 21-22 Jacobean Year, Creative Paths is the great international exhibition with which the Galician government will say farewell to this event until its next edition.

Honi Ryan, 'Walking Presence', social performance, 2016. Photo: Kashif Saleem

Now in its last month, if you have a chance, do visit this exceptionally curated transhistorical and international survey of the relationship between art and movement. At the Gaiás Centre Museum, City of Culture, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where walking and pilgrimages are an integral part of the city's history and daily life.

For more information about the show and the venue: https://www.cidadedacultura.gal/en/event/creative-paths.

Honi Ryan, Creative Paths exhibition, Museo Centro Gaias, 2022. Video: Cidade da Cultura

Honi Ryan is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, based between Berlin and Paris, working with nomadic social practice. At the intersection of sociopolitically engaged art, progressive pedagogy and performative expressions of utopia, her work has intercultural concerns and deals with the present body in relationship to others and their environment.

More information about Honi Ryan’s work : HERE