More than 700 art lovers, international art lovers, collectors, celebrities, and prominent figures from Ibiza attended the opening of the exhibition by Colombian artist Carlos Jacanamijoy on Tuesday, on a warm and vibrant afternoon at the La Nave Foundation gallery in Ses Salines, located right next to the sea and overlooking the famous beach of the same name. A live painting performance that expresses a deep connection with color, nature, and memory.
The opening of La Nave’s summer exhibition is one of the most important events of the island’s contemporary art season and marks a turning point for the caliber of the artists exhibited, curated by the owner of the New York gallery, Lío Malca, in a former 8,000-square-meter salt warehouse, which changes its architecture, appearance, and exhibition space each year according to the artist. Over its eleven editions, La Nave has hosted such illustrious names as Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Marco Brambilla, Bill Viola, KAWS, Rafa Macarrón, Eva Beresin, Jonny Niesche, Mai Blanco, Spencer Lewis, and Pedro Pedro.
This eleventh exhibition showcases the art of the Colombian painter, which is born from a deep relationship with color, nature, memory, and the spiritual world. The exhibition, titled Naturaleza Interior, features 15 acrylic and oil on canvas works displayed throughout La Nave, as well as a huge seven-meter (280 x 700 cm) canvas titled Karahuaja and Inner Nature, which he created live in front of a large audience during an original performance using dozens of brushes, brushes, and acrylic paints, accompanied by instrumental music from two local mindfulness artists. This large canvas will be on display for the next few days as part of the exhibition, which is open until October 30.
Jacanamijoy was born in 1964 in Santiago, Putumayo, in the Amazon region of the southeastern Andes of Colombia, and is a member of the Inga indigenous people. His work and style are born from a deep connection with the natural world that surrounds him, his memories, and his family and spiritual experiences. Rooted in his Inga heritage and shaped by the Amazon, he transforms the natural world into an inner landscape where memory, the forest, the body, and ancestral knowledge and wisdom coexist. In ‘Interior Nature,’ the artist introduces us to a worldview in which nature is not observed from the outside, but inhabited from within as a living world of which we are a part.
Artistic career
Their work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Korea Foundation (Seoul), the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Oslo), the Museum of Modern Art of Toluca, and the Smithsonian Institution (New York). His paintings are in the collections of the Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac, the National Museum of Colombia, the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution), and the Ken Griffin Collection. Jacanamijoy is represented by Almine Rech. His recent solo exhibitions include Olor a tierra at Almine Rech (Paris) and Ambi Yaku at A Gentil Carioca (São Paulo), both held in 2025. His recent group exhibitions include Amazonia Açu at the Americas Society (New York) and AMAZÔNIA, Créations et futurs autochtones at the Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac (Paris).
Additionally, his work is part of the exhibition Amazônia. Indigenous Worlds, which can be seen at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn until August 9, 2026. Among the guests were artists of local and national renown, such as the painters Pedro Asensio and Isabel Louy, the actor Carles Sans of the theater company Tricicle, architect Jaime Romano, collector José Pascual, international public relations specialist Carlos Martorell, Mallorcan lawyer Jaime Colomar, and Roman Fortunato, among others, along with Lío and Isaac Malca, founders of the La Nave de ses Salines Foundation.
