While CAN Art Fair runs in Ibiza this week, its OFF Program spreads across the island and Formentera – five site-specific shows by Balearic artists
Art fairs have a centrifugal problem: everything pulls toward the main event, and what happens outside the walls rarely gets the attention it deserves. CAN Art Fair Ibiza has been quietly working against that logic since its first edition. In 2026, now in its fifth year, the OFF Program makes the case more clearly than ever — five exhibitions, six artists, two islands, and a set of venues that no white-cube fair could replicate.
The shows run from May 29 to June 28, scattered across locations in Ibiza and Formentera that range from a lighthouse to a cultural center to a former military bastion. Each has been conceived in response to a specific place, and each draws on a practice rooted in the Balearic landscape, its history, and its particular quality of light.
Ana Grajales at Five Flowers Formentera Meliá Collection, Formentera
Ana Grajales works with ancestral textile techniques to build what she calls a cartography of belonging — maps made from natural fibers where landscape, memory and movement become physical form. Her exhibition at Five Flowers Formentera explores questions of origin and transit from an organic and contemplative perspective. The Formentera setting, stripped-back and unhurried, suits the work well.
Marina Marón at Sa Punta des Moli, Sant Antoni de Portmany
Marón’s practice sits at the intersection of architecture, landscape and psychological space. Her show at Sa Punta des Moli — a windmill complex overlooking the sea on Ibiza’s west coast — brings together paintings and sculptures that engage directly with the island’s built environment. The work is dreamlike in register but precise in its observation of how the Mediterranean light shapes form and memory.
Federica Furbelli and Catalina Julve at Faro de Ses Covetes Blanques, Sant Antoni de Portmany
A lighthouse on the edge of the island is the setting for a collaborative exhibition exploring origin, transit and belonging through what the two artists describe as emotional landscapes — spaces where architecture, body and nature converge. Furbelli’s practice connects landscape to the human footprint through a pictorial language of strong emotional charge. Julve approaches territory from a poetic and atmospheric standpoint, creating environments where the primitive and the lyrical coexist.
Antonio Villanueva at Es Polvorí, St. Lucia Bastion, Ibiza
Villanueva paints Ibiza — its movement, its desire, its particular vitality — through a gestural and spontaneous language that draws on both philosophical inquiry and deep personal connection to the island. His exhibition at the historic Es Polvorí bastion places that energy in direct conversation with one of Ibiza’s most charged architectural sites. The work is free, intuitive, and unambiguous in its attachment to place.
Mercedes Ball at the Cultural Center of Jesus, Santa Eularia des Riu
Ball works with reclaimed materials from the urban environment — scaffolding mesh, industrial waste — transforming them into visual language that interrogates the tensions between growth, identity and landscape. Her installation at the Cultural Center of Jesus uses the architecture of the space as both refuge and border, raising questions that are specific to Ibiza but extend well beyond it.
CAN Art Fair Ibiza 2026 OFF Program — practical information
The OFF Program runs from May 29 to June 28, 2026, across Ibiza and Formentera. All exhibitions are open to the public. Full details at contemporaryartnow.com.
