Art Initiatives

Art with purpose. Culture with impact.

Art Initiatives is a cultural association in Ibiza, founded in 2024 by Johanna Driest. We curate contemporary exhibitions and benefit auctions where artists, collectors and friends share a table. Every edition supports Anno’s One Fine Day in Kibera, Nairobi, together with a cause here in the Balearic Islands that we choose anew for each event.

Ibiza, Spain 2026: Anno’s One Fine Day & Espais de Vida About us
Two presenters in white gloves show a large colourful painting to guests at an open-air Art Initiatives benefit auction in Ibiza.
A previous Art Initiatives benefit auction, Ibiza

Next: 4 October 2026

Negotiating Belonging
Seated Lunch & Benefit Auction

A seated lunch at Juntos House in the hills of Sant Mateu d’Albarca, among friends old and new, and an afternoon auction of contemporary works. This year’s exhibition explores how the places, histories and communities around us shape who we are. Proceeds support Anno’s One Fine Day and this year’s Balearic cause, Espais de Vida.

Date
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Reception
12:00 to 13:00 at Juntos House
Venue
Juntos House, Sant Mateu d’Albarca, Ibiza
Tickets
€168 per person, incl. 10% VAT
Afterhour
Mira Cocktail Lounge, Sant Miquel, from 18:30

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Each year, a question

Every edition explores a question of our time through the works and personal stories of its artists. In 2025, Between Memory and Identity: Introspections looked inward, at how individual and collective memory shape identity. In 2026, Negotiating Belonging turns outward, to the places, systems and communities that shape where and how we belong.

Read about our curatorial themes

Auction 2026

A first look at the catalogue for Negotiating Belonging. Click any work for details and to place a bid. Explore the 2026 Auction

Rafaela de Ascanio, Carrier Bag, glazed ceramic vessel
Lot 01
Rafaela de Ascanio
Carrier Bag, 2025
Glazed ceramic, 45 × 43 × 43 cm
Bidding opens at €9,000
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Sarice Brudet, Context of Time – Moon Blue, acrylic and pigments on burlap
Lot 03
Sarice Brudet
CONTEXT OF TIME – MOON BLUE – Variations on a Theme: pulse of being, 2025
Acrylic, pigments on burlap, 10 × 100 × 1.8 cm
Bidding opens at €4,600
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Burkhard Driest, Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait), acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Lot 04
Burkhard Driest
Selbstbildnis / Self-Portrait, 1987
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 130 × 180 cm
Bidding opens at €9,500
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Noah Latif Lamp, Chemtrail, oil on canvas
Lot 05
Noah Latif Lamp
Chemtrail, 2026
Oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm
Bidding opens at €4,500
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Works from previous editions live in the archive.

A boy in a bright green T-shirt swings from a gym ring at the One Fine Day Arts Centre in Nairobi.

The cause

Why we do this

Before Art Initiatives had a name, Johanna Driest was involved in helping Anno’s One Fine Day, run by Krysteen Savane, and One Fine Day, founded by Marie Steinmann and Tom Tykwer, reach a milestone: the construction of their Arts Centre in Kibera, Nairobi. It finally gave a safe space to the children and young adults who dance, paint, tumble, make music and much more there every day. Watching what art does for their confidence is what convinced us it deserves a bigger stage.

Every auction we hold supports that work. Alongside it, each edition supports a different cause here in the Balearic Islands: in 2025 Asperger Ibiza y Formentera, and in 2026 Espais de Vida, which turns unused land and buildings into social housing, regenerative farming and cultural space.

Our causes

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.

“To create meaningful encounters where art fosters dialogue, awareness, and connection.”

Our shared vision