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Elena Vinyàrskaya is a Belarusian-born artist who lives on Formentera since 2017, where she began developing her artistic practice as a natural and therapeutic response to adapting to island life.

Originally trained in Translation and Interpreting, she first worked in hyperrealistic drawing and watercolor before turning toward abstraction after reaching what she considered a technical limit, though subtle traces of realism continue to anchor her compositions. She experiments with color and visual effects to create highly expressive artworks, evolutioning towards a more intuitive and atmospheric form of painting.

Working mainly with oil paint, oil pastel or charcoal, Vinyàrskaya balances expressive emotion with a clear, controlled technique, influenced by the landscape and quiet atmosphere of Formentera.

www.elenavinyarskaya.com

Manuel Salgado is a Madrid-born multidisciplinary artist, based on Ibiza since 2021, focused on sculpture and its dialogue with the island’s natural environment.

His work explores form, weight, and balance through stone, wood, metal, and mixed media, consistently engaging with the textures, contrasts, and geological character of the Mediterranean landscape. Early pieces were shaped using the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban technique, carving and charring wood to create structures reminiscent of carbonised stone. Later he included local sandstone such as marés and living rock, the medium of his most recent works.

Salgado reveals a clear evolution towards increasingly reduced, abstract organic forms that emerge from a negotiation between conceptual intention and the inherent resistance of the material. His work demonstrates a continuous search for form, texture, and structural clarity, rooted in a close dialogue with the island’s geological landscape.

Julien Meunié (Vichy 1948 – Mallorca 2001) was a French-born artist whose multidisciplinary background shaped his distinctive visual language.

After studying art, theatre, and French literature in Clermont-Ferrand, he followed his fascination with movement and joined the Paris dance company L’Atelier Contact in 1979, where he merged painting with Contact Improvisation. In 1982 he moved to Mallorca with his wife, dancer Susan Gray, immersing himself in the island’s light and colours, which became central to his work. Captivated by the red earth, Mediterranean blues, and white almond blossoms, he developed a profound body of landscape painting, while also exploring mythologically inspired figures and the dynamics of the human couple — often shaped by his dance background.

Renowned for his mastery of colour and technique, Meunié worked across watercolor, pastel, and oil before embracing acrylics and collage, creating richly textured compositions in his later years. Celebrated for his expansive landscapes, evocative seascapes, and expressive human figures, his work reveals a lifelong devotion to movement, atmosphere, and the poetry of place.

www.julienmeunie.com

Linde Bialas, born in Germany, studied painting and illustration in Munich and Stuttgart, where she met her husband, photographer Chico Bialas. In the early 1980s she moved to Paris, holding her first solo exhibition in 1989, and later established a life between Paris and Ibiza.

Her art embraces monotype, charcoal and acrylic painting, collage, and photography, always about the female figure. These women—often abundant, nude, and with eyes closed—are rendered in minimalist forms, sometimes with just a few black lines, embodying a universal femininity and radiating an inner strength. The result is a body of work that transforms women into timeless, iconic presences.

Guillem Nadal, born in 1957 on Mallorca, is a contemporary artist whose work blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture. His textured, process-driven compositions draw inspiration from the island’s nature, mythology, and landscapes, often evoking sediment layers, topographies, and elemental forces.

Since the late 1970s, he has developed a distinctive language that combines abstraction with material intensity, resulting in pieces that feel both organic and architectural. Nadal has exhibited widely across Europe, with solo shows in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Madrid, and Palma de Mallorca, and his works are part of major collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona and the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne. He has also participated in leading international art fairs including ARCO, Art Cologne, FIAC, and Art Basel.

Markus Maier (born 1964 in Aalen) first trained in carpentry and studied architecture, before developing and refining his reciprocal technique.

He works on the canvas from the reverse side, allowing paint to pass through the pores of fine or coarse-weave fabrics. By varying color and application, he influences the result without fully controlling it. The interaction between pigment and fabric generates surfaces with a tactile, almost woven quality, giving each work a distinctive textile character.

www.reziproke-malerei.de

Hiroshi Kitamura (born 1955 in Hokkaido) is a japanese-spanish multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and ink on paper. After studying sculpture and printmaking in Japan, he lives and workes in Empordà, Catalonia, for several decades, developing his own techniques beyond conventional boundaries. His practice is rooted in a close dialogue with natural materials such as branches and wood – found, peeled, and shaped into organic forms.

In exhibitions such as “Secrets of the Forest” (Menorca, 2025), he presents monumental works that reveal both fragility and strength, exploring themes of impermanence, emptiness, and the hidden histories of nature.

www.hiroshi-kitamura.com

Adriana Meunié studied fashion design at BAU, Escola Superior de Diseny in Barcelona, where she discovered her passion for textiles beyond the fashion world. Born and based in Mallorca, she works from her studio in Campos, in the island’s South. Her practice is deeply rooted in process and material exploration, with the studio serving as the place where ideas take shape and evolve.

I found the tapestry techniques, bounded to the very primary sense of textiles, which is very atractive for someone who has spent most of the time surrounded by them. Also, it’s an incredible opportunity to create what I like the most: wild textures, volumes and shapes. This is the fundamental search in my work. I’m looking for a monstrous elegance.

I’m combining this technique with raw materials from my surroundings. I find in them many interesting symbols like tradition, hand and artisanal work and that it relates to ancient jobs like a shepherd ( The wool comes from the sheep I help to shear), people who cultivate the plants, etc. I wish to give value to all of these concepts.

I also choose them for their intrinsic beauty. I want to let these materials express themselves, to show their raw beautiful purity. The wool, esparto, carritx, rafia (among others) in their primary form are simply so attractive to me. We usually see them treated or used in baskets, sweaters, chairs… but before giving them a practical use, I find them wonderful and I wish to share this feeling.

www.adrianameunie.com

Born on Mallorca in 1981

Trained in the field of ceramics, his artistic work has developed into sculpture and painting, characterized by the scarce use of tools and enamels which result in a balanced finish.
He defines his work as “synthesized nature”, a research of abstract spaces and fragments of natural elements, seeking to minimize forms.

In the daily environment of the south of the island, he finds the necessary elements for his work, be it the stones, the telluric landscapes, the faults of the sea or the neutral colors you can find there.

www.jaumeroigceramica.com

Born in Hall (Austria) in 1936
1960’s many study trips to foreign countries
Comissions for various outdoor sculptures
1980 Study visit to Florence
1995 Lecturer at the University Zwickau. 2000 Lecturer at the Summer Academy Innsbruck
Lives and works in Hall

The central themes are light and proportions, which refer to natural laws and take shape in “open forms”. Stainless steel and transparent, colored, fluorescent acrylic glass are his preferred materials. The works refer to light as an “open medium”, to gravity and to the Fibonacci sequence or the “golden ratio”.

www.hellmutbruch.com