
Writing Workshop with Ana Haro inspired by ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Photo: Maite Carles
Tuesday 28 October
Hauser & Wirth Menorca has concluded its fifth season on Illa del Rei, welcoming over 72,358 visitors from Saturday 10 May to Saturday 25 October 2025. On view were solo exhibitions by Mika Rottenberg and Cindy Sherman; a dedicated presentation of Eduardo Chillida’s work; an outdoor sculpture trail featuring works by Phyllida Barlow, Eduardo Chillida, Gary Simmons and David Zink Yi; and the Education Lab ‘Play Your Part,’ inspired by the exhibitions.
New collaborators this season—including Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus 2025, the Escola Superior d’Arts Dramàtiques de les Illes Balears (ESADIB), and ME_MMIX Festival—have joined the gallery’s ongoing partners such as the Fundació Hospital de l’Illa del Rei, Es Claustre, the Fundació Menorquina de l’Òpera, the Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, 78i Dansa, and the CRANC Festival, among others.
Accompanying the exhibition, the gallery has hosted a series of events that engaged more than 4,700 participants. This included 1,557 students and 88 school groups, continuing their commitment to inclusive learning programs that instigate a dialogue between art, artists and diverse audiences. Highlights include: a writing workshop inspired by Cindy Sherman’s exhibition and led by Menorcan writer Ana Haro; a book club with Jara Sánchez in collaboration with Xarxa de Biblioteques de Menorca; a summer film series featuring films recommended by our artists; and a live performance by Hector Ferrer and Kora Leiva Gnonnas inspired by the outdoor sculptures and family workshops.

Taller familiar inspirado en la exposición de Mika Rottenberg, ‘Vibrant Matter,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Foto: Maite Carles

Performance ‘Ètoile en mue’ de Hector Ferrer y Kora Leiva Gnonnas, Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025. Foto: Maite Carles
About ‘Mika Rottenberg. Vibrant Matter’
Mika Rottenberg’s first solo exhibition in Spain features celebrated video installations, ‘Cosmic Generator’ (2017) and ‘Spaghetti Blockchain’ (2019), alongside her latest ‘Lampshares’ (2024 – 2025) carved from bittersweet vines and reclaimed plastic. For decades, Rottenberg has addressed our relationship with capitalist systems of production and labor, realising a labyrinth of disparate worlds through seductive multidimensional works. She draws attention to the absurdity of our global situation; harnessing imagery that’s simultaneously pleasurable and troubling, blurring facts with fiction, the natural from the artificial.
About ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women’
For her first solo exhibition in Spain in over two decades, ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women’ features a selection of the artist’s most iconic bodies of work, dating from the 1970s to 2010s, and emphasising how Sherman revolutionized the role of the camera in artistic practice. The exhibition will include the groundbreaking ‘Untitled Films Stills’ (1977 – 1980), through which Sherman came to widespread notoriety as one of the ‘Pictures Generation’, artists whose work responded to the age of mass media and celebrity. This pivotal series is juxtaposed with Sherman’s large-format portrayals of film stars, starlets, society women and fashionistas, from various series made over subsequent decades, addressing the layered presentation and public perception of femininity.

Installation view, ‘Mika Rottenberg. Vibrant Matter,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025 © Mika Rottenberg. Photo: Damian Griffiths

Vista de instalación, ‘Cindy Sherman. The Women,’ Hauser & Wirth Menorca, 2025 © Cindy Sherman. Foto: Nicolas Brasseur
About the Education Lab ‘Play Your Part’
Conceived as a site-specific response to exhibitions and inspired by the concept of ‘plasticity of identity,’ ‘Play Your Part’ is a performative and participatory installation that invites the audience into an immersive, symbolic journey guided by audio narration. Visitors become active participants, engaging both intellectually and physically with the theme of identity through a carefully choreographed experience.
About the Outdoor Sculptures
Four sculptures by Phyllida Barlow, Eduardo Chillida, Gary Simmons and David Zink Yi were presented alongside the gallery buildings and embedded in the natural landscape of Illa del Rei. In the midst of Piet Oudolf’s perennial garden was the painted bronze sculpture, ‘Untitled (Crow 2)’ (2023), by Los Angeles-based artist Gary Simmons. Beside it, in the sandstone water tower, was David Zink Yi’s, ‘Untitled’ (2015). In the olive-tree forest by the sea sat Phyllida Barlow’s ‘PRANK: jape; 2022/23’ (2022 – 2023). Finally, as part of the exhibition ‘Chillida in Menorca,’ the corten steel ‘Saludo a los pájaros II (Salute to the Birds II)’ (2000) by Eduardo Chillida stood outside surrounded by trees and views of the harbor.
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