Art Initiatives

Seated lunch & benefit auction

Negotiating Belonging

A long lunch among friends, a benefit auction of contemporary works, and an afternoon in the hills of Sant Mateu d’Albarca, in support of Anno’s One Fine Day and Espais de Vida.

Date
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Reception
12:00 to 13:00 at Juntos House
Venue
Juntos House
Camí del Pla, s/n, 07816 Sant Mateu d’Albarca, Ibiza
Tickets
€168 per person
incl. 10% VAT (€15.27)
Tickets are non-refundable
Includes
Seated lunch, wine, and the benefit auction
In support of
Anno’s One Fine Day, Nairobi
Espais de Vida, Balearic Islands
Afterhour
Mira Cocktail Lounge, Sant Miquel
18:30 to 00:30

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Seats are limited and the room is deliberately small: a seated lunch rather than a standing reception. We look forward to welcoming you.

Negotiating Belonging, invitation to the 2026 benefit auction and seated lunch at Juntos House, 4 October 2026.
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Tickets

€168 per person, including 10% VAT. Tickets are non-refundable. Stripe emails you a receipt, and your name goes on the guest list, so there is nothing to print.

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The theme

Every Art Initiatives exhibition explores a question of our time. This year, Negotiating Belonging asks how identity is shaped by the places, systems, histories and communities that surround us, and how each of us negotiates a place within them.

Read about our curatorial themes

The afternoon

Negotiating Belonging follows the shape of our first edition: one seated lunch rather than a standing reception, because conversations change when people stay at the table. Between courses, works by contemporary artists go under the hammer (paintings, photography, collage and more), with proceeds supporting the artists, Anno’s One Fine Day in Kibera and Espais de Vida in the Balearic Islands.

You don’t need to be a collector to come. Come for the food, the company and the setting; if a work finds you, so much the better.

You can also place a binding pre-bid on any work in the catalogue before the auction, even if you can’t make it to Ibiza on the day.

The 2026 auction catalogue Works from past editions

The courtyard terrace of Juntos House in Sant Mateu d’Albarca: lunch tables set before a white traditional Ibizan house, with wild grasses and string lights.
Juntos Ibiza logo.

The venue: Juntos House

Juntos House is a farm-to-table restaurant in a traditional Ibizan house in the village of Sant Mateu d’Albarca, led by chef Pau Garcia Fidalgo. Its kitchen follows a simple principle: the rhythm of the farm sets the menu. Ingredients are organic and seasonal, grown in Juntos’ own regenerative fields or sourced from trusted local partners, and dishes arrive generously, made to be shared.

With its courtyard terrace and a garden framed by wildflowers, it is a place made for long, leisurely lunches with friends. That is exactly the spirit of our benefit auction: people sitting down together, rooted in the island and open to the world. Its care for the land and its local community also echoes this year’s theme of belonging, and the work of Espais de Vida.

When
Sunday, 4 October 2026, reception 12:00 to 13:00
Where
Juntos House
Camí del Pla, s/n, 07816 Sant Mateu d’Albarca, Ibiza

Learn more at juntosibiza.com.

The pink bar at Mira Cocktail Lounge in Sant Miquel, with pink stools, glass lamp lights and flowers, and the garden terrace beyond.
Mira Cocktail Lounge logo.

The afterhour: Mira Cocktail Lounge

Directly after the lunch and auction, the evening continues at Mira Cocktail Lounge in Sant Miquel, from 18:30 until 00:30. Guests can enjoy a five-hour vinyl set by Art Initiatives Director Johanna Driest, cocktail creations by Fernando Leo Navarro and fusion kitchen bites by Tiago Borges.

Mira is a cocktail bar and lounge attached to the Gathering art gallery, with a pink bar beneath a hand-blown glass chandelier and a terrace made for lingering.

When
Sunday, 4 October 2026, 18:30 to 00:30
Where
Mira Cocktail Lounge
Carrer Vicent Serra, 4, Sant Miquel de Balansat, Ibiza

Learn more at miraloungeibiza.com.

Previous events

What these afternoons feel like: impressions from our previous benefit lunches and auctions in Ibiza.

A wide view of the benefit lunch: guests at round tables under a shade sail, green hills beyond. A guest in sunglasses raises bidding paddle 22 during the auction. An auctioneer speaks beside a painting on an easel during an open-air Art Initiatives benefit lunch in Ibiza. Two presenters show an artwork on an easel to guests seated on the lawn. Guests at a lunch table cheer as paddle 20 goes up. A guest in sunglasses and a cap studies an abstract painting outdoors. Set tables under olive trees with heather and numbered paddles, before the lunch. Two presenters in white gloves hold up a framed work for the guests. A guest leans over the table to write a bid with a blue pen. Guests at a table smile and applaud during the auction. A guest in round sunglasses raises paddle 13. Guests in conversation around a round table outdoors, wine glasses on the table. Friends laughing together around a lunch table in the shade. A guest in a pale yellow jacket raises a paddle to bid. Two guests sign the auction book at a wooden table with flowers and wine. A guest leafs through the auction catalogue at the table. A speaker with a microphone addresses guests on a lawn overlooking the hills. Two guests talk and laugh outdoors, pink flowers behind them. A guest in sunglasses smiles at a lunch table with a glass of white wine. A guest leans in, laughing, to talk with a woman at her table. Guests at the seated lunch, food and wine on the table. Guests listen from their tables during the afternoon. Two presenters in white gloves wait beside the auction display. A guest in a wide sunhat holds a glass of white wine among the trees.