{"id":2191,"date":"2025-06-30T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/good-broker.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:30:22","slug":"from-fairgrounds-to-fishing-huts-can-ibiza-2025-maps-contemporary-art-across-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/good-broker.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/from-fairgrounds-to-fishing-huts-can-ibiza-2025-maps-contemporary-art-across-the-island\/","title":{"rendered":"from fairgrounds to fishing huts: CAN ibiza 2025 maps contemporary art across the island"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAN \u2013 Contemporary Art Now completes fourth edition in Ibiza<\/h2>\n

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Long known for its pulsating rhythms and azure waters, Ibiza has in recent years offered a different kind of immersion: CAN \u2013 Contemporary Art Now. From June 25th to 29th, 2025, the island hosted the fair\u2019s fourth edition, where contemporary art met the Mediterranean\u2019s slower pace. Curated by Sa\u0161a Bogojev and held at the FECOEV fairgrounds just beyond the old town walls, CAN Ibiza 2025 brought together a tightly edited selection of international and Balearic galleries, spanning painting, sculpture<\/strong><\/a>, textiles<\/strong><\/a>, and installation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Organized by the team behind Madrid\u2019s UVNT art fair, CAN has carved out its own space in the global art calendar. More contained than the larger fairs that dominate the scene, it lends itself to slower looking and closer conversation, a tone that quietly set the rhythm throughout. But CAN doesn\u2019t stop at the fairgrounds. Visitors are invited to explore the island itself, where site-specific works appear in unexpected settings: a restored fishing hut, a disused water irrigation system, and other reimagined spaces that echo Ibiza\u2019s evolving cultural landscape.<\/p>\n

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all images by Maria Santos<\/a>, unless stated otherwise<\/p>\n

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A Curated Canvas: From Painting to Public Art<\/h2>\n

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This year\u2019s edition of CAN \u2013 Contemporary Art Now<\/strong><\/a> continued its focus on painting, offering a broad spectrum of styles from sharp-edged realism to loose figuration and abstract gestures. While painting remained central, the fair subtly expanded its scope, introducing works in textiles, ceramics, sculpture, and installation. These material explorations brought added depth and tactility, reflecting a growing interest in process, texture, and form. Across the booths, themes of nature, harmony, and the human figure emerged as quiet undercurrents.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, a new addition for 2025, the CAN Design section introduced a curated selection of collectible design galleries from Ibiza and beyond. Bridging fine art and functional aesthetics, this chapter gently widened the fair\u2019s lens, reinforcing its connection to the island\u2019s creative ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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this year\u2019s edition of CAN \u2013 Contemporary Art Now continued its focus on painting | image \u00a9 Sayana Cairo<\/a><\/p>\n

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Beyond the Booths<\/h2>\n

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CAN\u2019s presence extended well beyond the fairgrounds, weaving into the island\u2019s cultural fabric through its OFF Program and CAN Local initiatives. Now in its third year, the OFF Program transformed historic sites into exhibition spaces: a lighthouse in Sant Antoni hosted paintings by Alba Suau and Adri\u00e0 Mayordomo; Joan Canyelles exhibited at the Santa Eul\u00e0ria des Riu air raid shelter; and Andri\u00e1n Mart\u00ednez showed work at Sa Punta des Mol\u00ed, a restored mill. These off-site activations offered a slower, place-specific way to encounter art, grounded in the textures of the island itself.<\/p>\n

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Running alongside, CAN Local presented a parallel program of exhibitions organized by local galleries and institutions as part of the expanding Ibiza Art Week. At La Nave Salinas, Spencer Lewis and Pedro Pedro were featured in a two-person show, MACE (Museu d\u2019Art Contemporani d\u2019Eivissa) hosted works by Miquel Barcel\u00f3 and Ramon Enrich, and Estudi Tur Costa paired paintings by Erwin Bechtold with sculpture by Franco Monti. Site-specific projects added another layer: Edith Dekyndt transformed CAN Garita, a former fishing hut, with a multimedia installation referencing the island\u2019s ecological shifts; while Lena M. Emrich\u2019s sculptural work occupied SAFA, a disused water irrigation system. Together, these projects traced new intersections between contemporary practice and Ibiza\u2019s evolving cultural landscape.<\/p>\n

As Sergio Sancho, Founding Director of CAN Ibiza, shared, the fair aims to present \u2018the very best of the avant-garde visual arts scene,\u2019<\/em> seeking to \u2018mix culture, business and enjoyment.\u2019<\/em> This approach, coupled with Sa\u0161a Bogojev\u2019s curatorial vision, which prioritizes a tight selection of galleries and fosters a more \u2018relaxed\u2019 atmosphere, appears to be shaping CAN into an experience where meaningful connections \u2014 both artistic and personal \u2014 can flourish.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nname: <\/strong>Contemporary Art Now \u2013 CAN Art Fair<\/a> | @canartibiza<\/a>
\nlocation: <\/strong>Ibiza, Spain
\ndates: <\/strong>25 \u2013 29 June 2025<\/p>\n

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