CAN Art Ibiza 2025 opens with international strength and local stamp

Balearic presence

Five of the 31 participating galleries are from the Balearic Islands, including the Enaire gallery in Ibiza. This year, the gallery has joined a project that strengthens its connection with the local artistic community through the CAN Local call for entries. This initiative seeks to showcase the islands’ talent on an international stage and has received institutional backing.

As well as having a presence on the main site, CAN Art has organised an ambitious OFF programme featuring site-specific projects by several Balearic artists in locations such as the Ses Coves Blanques lighthouse, Es Polvorí and the Santa Eulàlia air raid shelter. There is also a dedicated design space on the fairgrounds.

Outstanding proposals

The institutional tour also served to discover some of the most powerful proposals of this edition. Among them, the installation by the Chinese artist Shuyi Cao, represented by Future Gallery (Berlin), who works with biotechnological materials and speculative narratives to address possible futures. Cao is one of the most internationally acclaimed artists on the poster and is represented by institutions such as MoMA PS1 and the Times Art Center in Berlin.

Also contemporary, the French artist Delphine Dénéréaz, from 193 Gallery (Paris), presents tapestries made from recycled materials that combine pop aesthetics, domestic memory and feminist demands. Alongside her are the ceramic sculptures of Line Munch (KANT Gallery, Copenhagen) or the mutant forms of Dimitris Tampakis (HAGD Contemporary, Denmark), in an edition marked by the strength of artisan techniques reinterpreted from the avant-garde.

Historical Voice

One of the most celebrated additions this year is Teresa Lanceta, a key figure in Spanish textile art, represented by the Nino Mier gallery. A winner of the 2023 National Prize for Plastic Arts, Lanceta exhibits pieces that engage with Moroccan and Gypsy craft traditions from a contemporary and conceptual standpoint. Her participation in CAN Art sparks an intriguing generational dialogue with artists such as Dénéréaz, who are both connected by their use of fabric as a political and symbolic language.

A consolidated fair

For the fair’s director, Sergio Sancho, this fourth edition is yet another step in the consolidation of CAN Art Ibiza as an essential event for contemporary art in southern Europe. «This year we are taking a qualitative leap forward: we are maintaining the fresh, risky spirit of the project, but with a more mature structure and a level of artists and galleries that places Ibiza on the international art map», he said during the presentation.

With a balance between artistic risk, formal diversity and local connection, CAN Art Fair 2025 confirms its place as a relevant event for collectors and professionals as well as for the general public who these days walk the aisles of FECOEV. The fair will be open until Sunday.