Going Clubbing In Ibiza This Summer Then Youre Going To Be In A Giant Art Gallery

Creative Boom: News Art & Culture Going clubbing in Ibiza this summer? Then you're going to be in a giant art gallery A two-year collaboration between a London art platform and the world's most famous clubs is reinventing what it means to experience art. Written By: Tom May 12 May 2026 A clubber takes a picture of Sexy Robot artwork by Japanese Illustrator Hajime Sorayama Let me set the scene. It's just after midnight on a Friday in Ibiza.

I'm standing in the garden of Hï Ibiza, one of the most famous nightclubs on the world-famous party island, watching a group of young men examine a life-size sculpture of a Vespa with the focused attention you'd normally see in a museum. They're circling it slowly, crouching down to peer at the details, one of them reaching out to touch the surface. The music is pounding a few metres away. None of them seems to notice. The Vespa is carved from a single 15-tonne block of Carrara marble. It took Italian sculptor Nazareno Biondo two years to make.

It is, by any measure, an extraordinary object: a thing that looks exactly like a scooter, rendered in a material that makes it feel ancient and permanent and slightly unreal all at once. Italian sculptor Nazareno Biondo with his marble sculpture of a Vespa at Hï Ibiza Life-size solid marble sculpture of a Fiat 500 called "Old Lady" by Nazareno Biondo at Hï Ibiza Clubber examining the Fiat 500 sculpture A few steps away Nazareno's life-size marble Fiat 500—nicknamed Old Lady—sits under an Ibiza moon surrounded by stained-glass tepee structures, with clubbers wandering around it, trying to work out if they're dreaming.

I spoke to the artist that night and found him warm, funny and visibly thrilled by how people were responding to the work. "This is the right place for it," he told me. "It surprises people here in a way that a gallery never could." That, in essence, is the idea behind the Culture Collective, a season-long art exhibition that's been installed across three of Ibiza's biggest club venues: Hï Ibiza, Ushuaïa Ibiza and [UNVRS]. Organised by London-based art platform W1 Curates in partnership with The Night League, the company behind all three venues, it's the result of two years of planning and is being billed as Europe's biggest public art expo.

Valencian street artists PichiAvo with mural The Three Graces on a wall at Hï Ibiza Conceptual artist Pascal Sender's work around bar at Hï Ibiza Bas relief sculpture by Portuguese artist VHILS on exterior wall of [UNVRS] More than 70 international artists are involved. The exhibition runs from late April until mid-October, meaning that virtually everyone who visits these clubs this summer will encounter it, whether they came for the art or not. The right place at the right time W1 Curates founder Mark Dale has been developing the logic behind this project for years.

His platform has run a public art installation on Oxford Street in London since 2018, wrapping a multi-storey fashion store in enormous digital screens that showcase the work of leading contemporary artists, with a combined annual reach of over 1.2 billion impressions. The Ibiza project applies the same principle on an even more ambitious scale: take world-class art and put it somewhere that huge numbers of people are already going to be. "The intention is to make art more accessible and showcase world-class art directly in front of a massive global audience," Mark says.

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