On Tuesday, 9 December 2025, Studio 55 will open its doors in Cala Llonga with a bold invitation to come, look and talk. Between 15:00 and 21:00 hours, visitors will be welcome to discover this new creative laboratory without the usual protocols of gallery openings – no speeches, no formal unveiling, just the space itself and the artists who will inhabit it.
Victor Spinelli, the artist and photographer behind the project, has conceived Studio 55 as something beyond a traditional gallery or workspace. This will be an artistic meeting point where coexistence, creation and new perspectives will converge bringing artists, creative thinkers and the curious from all over the world. The vision is deliberately open-ended: a hub that will prioritise human exchange over institutional formality, where the connective potential of art will take precedence.
The soft opening will reflect this philosophy. Rather than presenting a curated exhibition or finished statement, Spinelli offers an unadorned glimpse into what the space might become. This approach – tentative, welcoming, unfinished – will speak to a different model of cultural production, one that values process and community over hype and spectacle.
With Studio 55, Spinelli signals an interest in experimentation that extends beyond individual artistic practice. The word suggests collaborative inquiry, risk-taking and the possibility of unexpected outcomes. The location in Cala Llonga, away from Ibiza’s more established cultural centres, reinforces this sense of creating something unique where artists can follow their visions in tranquillity.
Those who accept the invitation on 9 December will encounter a space at its most hopeful and promising – before expectations have solidified, before any established patterns have emerged. They will be among the first to help determine what this new creative sanctuary might become.
The gesture is simple: come, see, talk. Studio 55 asks us to believe that such unmediated encounters remain possible, that spaces for genuine artistic exchange can still be carved out, and that Ibiza’s cultural ecology might benefit from this new node of creative activity.
Studio 55
Cala Llonga, Ibiza
Pre-opening: Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 15:00–21:00
Victor Spinelli, founder
Images courtesy of Victor Spinelli © 2025
Main image: Diver UP (Burning Man 2022)
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
