Gathering Ibiza And Mira Reopen For The 2025 Season | A Commitment To Cultural Encounters Through Hospitality, Gastronomy And Contemporary Art

GATHERING Ibiza, the Balearic outpost of London’s contemporary art gallery GATHERING, and MIRA, its courtyard restaurant and bar, reopen for the 2025 summer season. This interconnected space brings international artistic voices to a local context with an approach that goes beyond the traditional gallery model. An intimate setting for art, music, and conversation, MIRA emerges as Ibiza’s first contemporary salon, inviting visitors from all over the world to connect, share meals, and experience culture in motion. Embodying an intimate and seductive atmosphere, the restaurant features site-specific art installations by Tai Shani and Stefan Brüggemann and continues to evolve with a new nighttime extension of the venue — a late-hours setting with a 1970s mood. Informed by the curatorial direction and international networks of GATHERING’s London base, the hybrid venue contributes a new layer of cosmopolitan sensibility to the island’s cultural fabric

MIRA blends art, music, and hospitality with understated sophistication, bringing a distinctly cosmopolitan energy to Ibiza’s cultural community. Here, dim lighting, cocktails, and creative nomads converge in a setting that recalls the intimacy of Mexico City’s culinary scene and the irreverent vitality of Ibiza. Whether for dinner, a pre-club gathering, or lingering late into the night, MIRA offers a place to be — and to stay — where conversation, sound, and aesthetics unfold without rush. Through chef residencies, artist programs, and an evolving community of local and international visitors, MIRA cultivates a cultural presence that is both rooted and outward-looking. It speaks to an audience seeking beauty, depth, and a sense of belonging within a global, creative milieu.

Designed in collaboration with Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani, MIRA is reimagined as both a restaurant and a site-specific artwork. Shani’s breast-shaped blown-glass lanterns float above a bubblegum-pink bar, which, together with a marble-esque façade and vivid details, lend the restaurant a theatrical flair. At the heart of the garden, among the tables, sits one of Shani’s sculptural candles — a version of her commission for New York’s High Line. Nearby, a mirrored spray painting by Stefan Brüggemann adds a sharp, reflective presence to the exterior. The venue is set to expand after dark, with a new late-night concept infused with a 1970s atmosphere.

Affirming its ongoing commitment to nurturing Ibiza’s cultural community, MIRA’s summer programming features the Sunday session Aperitivo Analogico, with DJs spinning vinyl-only sets, while Mondays see MIRA transform into a listening bar, focused on digital DJ sets. This season, a new series of artist talks takes place, featuring conversations with artists, writers, and thinkers, inaugurated by a presentation from Seffa Klein, who developed new works during her time at GATHERING’s Can Maria Residency on the island. In parallel, MIRA will host a series of 4-hands pop-up dinners and guest chef collaborations with restaurants from Ibiza, Barcelona, Pays Basque, Mexico City, Argentina, Italy, London, and Madrid. A selection of exclusive fashion pop-ups will also take over MIRA this summer, further layering the space with moments of cross-disciplinary exchange.

Following its soft launch in 2024, GATHERING Ibiza is conceived as a space where contemporary art practices can evolve in dialogue with the island’s enduring countercultural spirit. Housed within a striking architectural space—featuring high ceilings, two mezzanine levels, and abundant natural light—the gallery invites both critical engagement and quiet contemplation, encouraging visitors to reflect, linger, and wander.

The gallery’s upcoming exhibition, titled Sunset Strip, presented in collaboration with Berlin-based gallery SOCIÉTÉ, will be on view from June 24 – September 1, 2025. It brings together seventeen international contemporary artists from both galleries’ rosters, including Petra Cortright, Tamara K.E., Wynnie Mynerva, Bunny Rogers, Tai Shani, and Marianna Simnett, showcasing works across diverse mediums such as ceramics, textiles, and painting. Much like Sebastian Riemer’s HOCKNEY 1967 A Bigger Splash, which reimagines the sun-drenched nostalgia of David Hockney’s iconic imagery, the exhibition draws on motifs of Ibiza and island life—pool tiles, tropical flora, bold hues, tourism, and solitude. The exhibition reframes the island’s magnetic allure, inviting viewers to consider it as a foamy, salt-sprayed liminal home for contemporary art.