About us
Sometimes change isn’t something you look for — it just happens. Because it makes sense. Because it was necessary.
After 10 years of history in Madrid, and coinciding with the closing of the 4th edition of CAN Art Fair Ibiza on the island, we feel it’s time to take the next step. UVNT Art Fair (Urvanity Art) is transforming into CAN Art Fair Madrid, bringing both fairs together under one name: Contemporary Art Now.
A new name to keep being what we’ve always been: a bold, curious, and vibrant fair. But also, a name to help us grow. To open up new paths alongside those who’ve grown with us. After years of evolution and dialogue with artists, galleries, and audiences who look at the present with a hunger for the future, we knew it was time to move forward. And that step only made sense if we took it together: Ibiza and Madrid, sun and moon under the same sky. Contemporary Art Now is no longer just a project happening on the island, it now beats in the heart of Spain’s capital.
If in Ibiza, art opens to the sun, to desire, to celebration; in Madrid, it dives deep, into emotion, into urgency. CAN Ibiza is the sun, CAN Madrid is the moon: intuition, transformation, inner drive. The place where strange dreams take shape. Where what seems invisible gains strength.
We’re the same, but different.
We still believe in art born from the now. In new languages, in aesthetics that break the mold, in visual culture that doesn’t ask for permission and shakes us awake.We still support artists and galleries that take risks, that dare, that don’t settle. But now, we do it under a name that brings us together: Contemporary Art Now.
During Madrid Art Week, from our venue at Matadero Madrid, we open a space to showcase national and international proposals that explore new narratives, voices, and ways of seeing. With a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability in the art ecosystem, and the goal of reinforcing our role as ambassadors of a city that cultivates its cultural scene year-round, attracting diverse audiences open to discovery.
We want you to come not just to look, but to feel.
To let yourself be carried by the unexpected.
To discover. To collect. To ask questions.
Because art doesn’t wait. It happens now.
And so do we.
Welcome to CAN Art Fair Madrid.