Grand Opening
1 Jul - 6 Sep 2026

Hama Gallery is proud to present Forward / Adelante, the grand opening exhibition of our new Ibiza home. The title carries a double meaning; in Spanish, adelante can mean to move forward or simply to come on in, and here on the island, our doors are held wide open. With works across mediums, from painting, photography, ceramics to sculpture, this exhibition debuts a new chapter for the gallery, alongside five artists who have defined its identity over the last five years: Chiara Caselli & Francesco Carrasso, Ziarah Janssen, Jorge Mañes Rubio and Melissa Schriek.

Chiara Caselli & Francesco Carrasso
Under the alias CCONTINUA+MAMT, artist duo Chiara Caselli and Francesco Carrasso have made the ceramic surface the site of their shared artistic practice. Chiara forms the clay, intuitively stretching its limits until the hard material takes on a kind of weightlessness. Francesco then draws across these surfaces with an instinctive fluidity, tracing pencil lines, figures, and words that accumulate across the clay like mantras. In Cigno Nero (2025), their black swan, this process finds its fullest expression yet: feathers dissolve into the curves of a female body, and wings become hips. The work symbolises the contradiction that swans carry with them; effortless above the water but ceaselessly working beneath it.

Ziarah Janssen
Ziarah Janssen's canvases are visceral, bold in colour and expressive in brushwork, with the female body at their centre. Her artistic practice embodies feelings and experiences that many women know but don't often talk about. Through her new work Let's Be Honest (2026), Ziarah gives form to the specific, disorienting experience of a body that has grown and nurtured a child, and the slow process of finding your way back to yourself, and to intimacy. It lends words to a sentiment that lives deep in our collective consciousness and proposes to be radically honest about it with ourselves and others.

Jorge Mañes Rubio
Jorge Mañes Rubio has a way of taking an ordinary object and transforming it into something that balances power and fragility side by side. La Noche Que Desvela Una Luz Sin Medida (2025) begins with a familiar motocross glove, its surface covered with hundreds of glass beads, rhinestones and gold threads alongside medals inherited from Jorge's great-grandmother Eduwigis Llorente, collected at monasteries across Europe in the early 1900s. In Spanish, desvela bears two meanings: to uncover and to stay awake out of devotion or vigilance. The glove shimmers with both, somewhere between armour and offering.

Melissa Schriek
Melissa Schriek's practice lives in the tension between what is real and what is staged. Her work places women and their environments into performances with a curious eye, moving between photography and painting to find what each layer brings emotionally. In her new series Girlhood Summer (2026), Melissa turns that lens on a familiar memory of summer, already cinematic and ever so slightly unreal even as it's happening. Ice Cream (2026) portrays the instantly familiar dessert, which is almost too perfect, becoming subtly unsettling. The painted layer mimics what our memory does: it makes the image feel like it's already melting while you're still looking at it.