IBIZA AND ART

Despite its location in the busy Mediterranean and history of foreign influence, Ibiza’s small size has helped preserve a unique sense of independence and cultural identity, where autonomy thrived without the need for formal boundaries.

In the 19th century, as art shifted towards authentic expression, Ibiza’s ancient architecture and culture attracted Modernist and Bauhaus architects, along with a wave of painters, sculptors, and musicians. By the 1930s, Ibiza became home to Spain’s first contemporary art museum, establishing the island as a global art hub, peaking in the 1970s.

The 1990s brought mass tourism, reducing art to a tourist commodity. However, in the last 20 years, a creative resurgence fueled by luxury tourism and a new wave of artists has revitalized Ibiza’s art scene. Today, the island blends international standards with a unique, local vibe—a vibrant, untouched creative paradise.

Mission

Over the last one hundred years, Ibiza has developed an unusually dense artistic community composed of cultural and social refugees, bohemians and mavericks, attracted by its natural beauty and sense of authenticity, seeking to express their vision of paradise and manifest a better life. Undiscovered and circumvented by the corruptive manipulations of the international critical art scene, Ibiza’s creative crowd has remained largely naïve and unaware of its own power and charm.

Ibiza Art Union was founded in 2014 as a non-profit public institution to unite the creative forces of Ibiza and respond to the demands of the island’s ongoing demographic changes and social evolution. It provides a cultural infrastructure embodying international standards for creatives and art lovers.

Our objectives are to:

• organise and patronise events in Ibiza and around the world
• build and maintain a public documentation centre
• form contacts with other associations worldwide
• organise collaborations between individual artists and groups in Ibiza and worldwide
• found a public multi-disciplinary art centre in Ibiza
• investigate the anthropology of creativeness
• offer resources and facilities for creative and ethical education of all ages
• develop and patronise a regular international art festival in Ibiza
• provide legal and administrative assistance to our members

Workshops

Events

Festivals

Documentation

Website Archives

Publication

Research