What to see during the final weeks of Mallorca PhotoFest

hese are the final weeks to enjoy the 2026 edition of the Mallorca PhotoFest (PHOF), which officially ends on August 30th. Led by Art Palma Contemporani, under the direction of Xavier Fiol and with Xisco Bonín as part of the curatorial committee, PHOF opened in April with an in-depth program of exhibitions, talks, book signings that has been ongoing for four months. PHOF has been met with much success, with high attendance and positive feedback from visitors, artists and gallery spaces. While the festival ends on August 30th, there is time to see some engaging exhibitions at galleries and cultural centers. Here are a few of our recommendations.

Galeria Baro presents “Against Time,” a solo exhibition of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1955-2023). The exhibition takes place in the next door gallery space and is on view through September 4th. Olaf was known for his pioneering work addressing LGBTQ+ culture in the 1980s, but also for his meticulously lit and staged photographs that embraced references to Dutch Renaissance painting and other classical motifs, while being undeniably contemporary, provocative and surprising. “Against Time” presents a selection of small format photographs from Olaf’s Still Life series featuring flowers and plants in pots and planters set within nondescript interior settings. There is something mundane yet intriguing about each set up. A sense of calm and contemplation resonates from the images. As curator and critic Esmeralda Gomez Galera writes in the exhibition’s essay, “Suspended and seemingly still, these images foreground photography as a trace of something in the process of disappearing.”

Joan Roig at Casal de Can Pere Ignasi

Jaime Diamond at KewenigGallery

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ewenig Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Jamie Diamond’s photographs through September 5th. Titled “Replicant: Matrilineal Forms”, the exhibition addresses questions of creation, reproduction, transformation and transmission through ceramics, digital reproduction and artificial intelligence. Inspired by the concept of ‘replicant’ from the film Blade Runner, inspired by Philip K. Dick’s 1968 book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Diamond begins with a series of hand coiled and wheel thrown vessels that loosely suggest female reproductive anatomy. These are then photographed, digitised and then scanned through AI, which interprets the works in their own way. These images are then printed on silk, becoming objects again. Diamond, a New York-based artist, spent 10-days in residency at the gallery, where she also made ceramic pieces and performance pieces. The exhibition is on view through September 5th.

The Museu Mallorca features an engaging exhibition around the subject of heliography, developed in 1826 and which celebrates 200 years. Invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, this exhibition revisits the origins of photography as a writing of light. Taking Mallorca as a pioneering laboratory in industrial photographic techniques, the exhibition traces the technical and aesthetic evolution of the medium through the Casa Planas Archive. From early negatives to tourist postcards, photography in Mallorca is conceived as a key driver in shaping the island’s tourist imagination.

VIP opening of Miró, Mont-roig – Picasso, Horta, by Jean Marie de Moral

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n intimate exhibition of photographs titled “Miró, Mont-roig – Picasso, Horta”, by Jean Marie de Moral, stays on view at the Fundació Miro through September 6th. De Moral, known for his series of photos of artists in their studios, here captures landscapes that were central to the creative development of the two artists, who were both friends and sometimes competitors. He visited both locations in 2022 and the sixty photographs presented in the exhibition offer “a poetic look at the strange similarities nestling in the walls of convents, in rocks sculpted by nature and chapels perching in similar fashion, subtly reveal(ing) the same imaginary: the one shared by two giants of the twentieth century,” writes curator Manel Guerrero.

Other highlights in these final weeks of Mallorca Photo Fest include a project at the Casal de Can Pere Ignasi in Campos, by Mallorcan artist Joan Roig, who presents an exhibition titled “Warm Lakes”; And at a66 galeria in Santanyi, an exhibition from the Archivio Paolo Costa that features a selection of works by the Italian photographer that reflect on memory, authenticity, representation and the passage of time.

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