La Nit de l’Art always fills Palma with exhibitions and people who come to celebrate. But it ends, and the galleries remain open. The shows inaugurated these days offer a good opportunity to return calmly, look at the works without rushing, and discover proposals that deserve a visit beyond the Night. Below, we take a tour among the many possible ones of some of the most outstanding exhibitions shown by the city's galleries.

There are not many cultural initiatives around us that can boast of having reached 30 years. The Nit de l’Art has achieved this, and that is no small feat. Born in 1997 as an initiative by some gallery owners in Palma such as Pep Pinya (Pelaires), Xavier Fiol, and Joan Guaita, among others, it was conceived with the desire to join forces—perhaps thinking that the more there are, the more noise is made—and, above all, with the purpose of bringing art closer to the citizenry. It has been many years since the Nit de l’Art achieved a good part of these objectives. But what does it leave us and what could the Nit de l’Art leave behind, with the strength it has gathered in these 30 years? Perhaps it is a good time to ask ourselves that.

La Nit de l'Art will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary this year, becoming one of Mallorca's major cultural events. The event, which will open the exhibition season on September 19, will commemorate three decades of history after consolidating itself as a meeting point for artists, gallery owners, collectors, and industry professionals, as well as being one of the main platforms for the dissemination of contemporary art in the Balearic Islands.

Inca will once again become a center of poetry in the coming weeks with the new edition of the Poetry Festival, which kicks off on March 20th in the cloister of Sant Domingo. The City Council has presented a program with a clear interdisciplinary focus, in which verses are combined with electronic music and visual arts to create unique poetic experiences.

Caixafòrum Palma will host four exhibitions on art and nature, color, and Javier and Rafa Forteza, among other activities and workshops designed for all audiences, this new 2025/2026 season. This was explained by Noemí Vallespir, Planning and Content Manager of Caixafòrum Palma, and Isabel Salgado, Director of the Exhibitions, Collection, and Caixafòrum+ Department of the "la Caixa" Foundation, at a press conference to present the new exhibition season.

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I will begin the grief caused by the breakup of Zoo by listening to Malifeta, the project of the Valencians' guitarist, Arnau Giménez, and Mireia Matoses (from Pupil·les). After a while of releasing songs created during the pandemic, during which they both lived together and composed, their first album has just been released, Mitologia, a compilation of tracks they have been making over the last three years and which are now seeing the light of day. Ideal for missing Panxo and company's band a little less, because here there is also rap and love for the beats.