For the third time – following the successful projects in 2023 and 2024 – a group of artists and curators from Hamburg and Ibiza will come together in Sant Antoni de Portmany. Together, they will artistically explore themes and margins of spirituality, the movement towards „elsewhere,“ and closely related challenges such as longing, desires, inspiration, happiness, as well as rootlessness and religion.
Already in 2023, the philosopher Walter Benjamin was a central figure, as he stayed in Sant Antoni de Portmany during the Nazi dictatorship. This year, his ideas again inspire the exhibition: „En Transíto – In spirit, we are elsewhere“ invites us to re-experience transitions, cultural encounters, and the longing for „elsewhere.“ The title reflects the quest for change and the movement between here and there, between memory and new beginnings.
Walter Benjamin’s concept of the „aura“ – the unique and unrepeatable nature of a work of art in the moment of encounter – serves as a philosophical foundation for the exhibition.
The choice of the Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany as the exhibition venue, with its sacred architecture, creates a unique atmosphere where the earthly and the transcendent can meet. Here, the exhibited works become a space of experience that makes the transition between past, present, and future tangible.
Additionally, the exhibition incorporates Benjamin’s concept of „now-time“: a moment where past and present merge into a creative state of longing and hope. The works tell stories of transitions, journeys, and deep yearning, inviting viewers to pause and perceive themselves as part of this process.
„EnTransíto“ is an invitation to question one’s connection to art, space, and time, to look beyond cultural and spiritual boundaries, and to discover a new perspective in the in-between spaces – whether between Hamburg and Ibiza or between here and elsewhere.
For one week, selected artists and students will work and interact with the curatorial team of „En Transíto“ around the Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany. They will reflect on an ever-changing reality and artistically address the questions arising from it. Central themes include longing, desires, inspiration, transition, and the search for happiness.
As an exchange, an exhibition will take place in October 2025 in Hamburg. A version with small-format works from the exhibition in Sant Antoni de Portmany will then be shown in the LINKSRECHTS space in the Gängeviertel.