Four exhibition rooms with a stable programme in which both well-established figures and emerging artists are represented every year: Le Corbusier, Picasso, Jean Arp, Silvia Plachy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pier Paolo Passolini, Henri Michaux, Hans Hartung, Bruno Schulz, Pierre Klossowski, Nacho Criado, Basilio Martín Patino, Zaj, Jean Dubuffet, Mário Cesariny, Brassaï... A meeting point for thought, the sciences, literature, philosophy and the arts.

The conferences, talks, discussions and poetry recitals that are organised on a daily basis have involved leading figures from the world of culture such as Günter Grass, Seamus Heaney, Jürgen Habermas, Rafael Alberti, George Steiner, Slavoj Žižek, Claudio Magris, Antonio Gamoneda, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Cees Nooteboom, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Juan Gelman, John Berger, Ernesto Sábato, Álvaro Siza, Carlos Fuentes and Edward Said.

Those who have performed here include Pierre Boulez, Luis de Pablo, Lila Downs, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Marianne Faithfull, Vinicio Capossela, Jane Birkin, María Joao and Chano Lobato.

Since 1991, the CBA has awarded with its Gold Medal the work of creators such as Fernando Arrabal, Francisco Umbral, Carmen Martín Gaite, Günter Grass, Álvaro Siza, Alicia Alonso, Antonio Saura, Carlos Fuentes, Antoni Tàpies, Jean Baudrillard, Massimo Cacciari, Elías Querejeta, Ana María Matute, Manoel de Oliveira, Agustín Ibarrola y Luis de Pablo, John Berger, Antonio Gamoneda, Carles Santos, Michael Haneke, Raimon, Fredric Jameson, Jordi Savall, Salman Rushdie, Gonzalo Suárez, Georges Didi-Huberman, Aki Kaurismäki, Slavoj Žižek, Teresa Berganza, Javier Solana, Gianni Vattimo.

[citation needed] The CBA is a reference space and a guarantee for many companies that organise events, as it provides them with the ideal setting for putting their ideas into practice.