SEVEN UNMISSABLE ART GALLERIES
FROM A REPURPOSED SALT WAREHOUSE TO CONTEMPORARY GALLERIES HOUSING IMPRESSIVE COLLECTIONS OF POP ART, SCULPTURE AND CERAMICS, THESE SHOWROOMS AFFIRM IBIZA’S REPUTATION AS AN UNDER-THE-RADAR ART HUB.
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO EIVISSA (MACE)
The Dalt Vila museum that’s as famed for its architecture — a 2012 overhaul gave the 18th century building a contemporary glass front — as its permanent collection. A key player in Spain’s modern art scene since 1969, peruse works by the modernist art collective, Grupo Ibiza 59, and more.
MUSEO PUGET
Can Comasema, a 15th century manor house in Dalt Vila, was once home to Mallorca’s aristocratic Palou de Comasema family and now houses 130 artworks by Ibiza-born artist Narcís Puget Viñas and his son, Narcís Puget Riqer. The Puget collection is considered one of the most important bodies of work depicting Ibiza in the early and mid-20th century.
PARRA Y ROMERO WAREHOUSE
Guillermo Parra, formerly of Victoria Miro and Shoreditch’s White Cube Gallery, opened this vast warehouse space in 2005 and hosts museum-scale art, sculpture, and photography exhibitions and installations by world-class artists — think Scottish abstract painter (and Turner Prize nominee) Calum Innes and Sicilian artist Turi Simeti.
FUNDACIÓN LA NAVE SALINAS
A converted salt storage warehouse now serves as a revolving exhibition space for Colombia-born, New York gallerist Lio Malca’s own, enviable collection. Previous hits include the oversized artworks of Keith Haring and surreal lightbox installations of Johnny Niesche.
PARRA Y ROMERO GALLERY
This little sister gallery occupies prime position in the charming church plaza of Santa Gertrudis. With the same contemporary and international feel of the warehouse but on a smaller, more intimate scale, the gallery hosts frequent music and culture events and always-packed opening nights.
EL FARO DE SES COVES BLANQUES
A decommissioned lighthouse is now an atmospheric, revolving space for exhibitions relating to the island’s culture, heritage and history. A recent show featured more than 500 posters from the island’s legendary nightclubs, collected over five decades by Pep Pilot, an Ibicenco music enthusiast.
CASA BRONER
Built in 1960 as the private home and studio of German architect Erwin Broner, Casa Broner is a cubist masterpiece in Sa Penya, the historic fisherman’s barrio of Ibiza Town. From the building, which offers stunning sea views, to the furniture and the artworks within, every element here was created by Broner.
Most of the people we knew were artists: either painters like my husband, Salvador Marón, or photographers, writers, or designers. Some great performers passed through and played for us. Taj Mahal, who became a good friend, Joni Mitchell, who posed for Salvador Dalí. There were photographers from Italian Vogue, Oliviero Toscani. Deborah Turbeville made pictures of us just for the fun, and people came from all the magazines to make stories about the artists and hippies of Ibiza.
WILLY VAN ROOY,
MODEL, IBIZA, 1971