A short, sourced history of one of dance music's defining venues — and why its return to the Mediterranean as a multi-day Cyprus event matters.
Space Ibiza opened in 1989 on Playa d'en Bossa, the long beach that runs south from Ibiza Town toward the airport. From day one, the building was an oddity: a low-slung, white industrial shell with one main inside room and an enormous open-air terrace bordering the runway. Planes came in low overhead. The roar of the engines became part of the show.
The terrace was the trick. While clubs across Europe were dark, smoke-filled boxes, Space ran in daylight. Doors opened in the morning, the morning-after crowd from the all-night clubs walked in for sunrise, and a sound built around long, loose, sun-bleached records developed: Balearic, progressive, deep house, soulful house. That sound came to be called the ‘terrace sound’ and it followed Space across the world.
If you can play the terrace at Space, you can play anywhere in the world.
That is what most DJs from the era will tell you, and it was almost literally true: every important international DJ played the room at some point in their career. The terrace was where techno acts learned to play warm music, where house DJs got room to extend, and where local Spanish artists shared a booth with American and British headliners.
We Love Sundays ran from 2003 to 2012 and became the flagship Space party. It started in the morning, ran through the afternoon and into the evening, and regularly drew 8,000-plus people. Sundays at Space became one of the few must-do experiences for any visitor to Ibiza, alongside Manumission at Privilege and Cocoon at Amnesia.
Carl Cox's The Revolution ran on Tuesdays for fifteen seasons (2001-2016), making it one of the longest-running residencies in club history.
The 27th and final season closed on 2 October 2016. The closing was a 22-hour marathon featuring almost every DJ associated with the room. The building reopened the following season under different ownership and a different brand (Hi Ibiza); the Space name and identity continued separately as a touring and licensing brand.
Since 2017, Space Ibiza has run as a global touring brand under the original ownership. Tour stops have included New York, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Sao Paulo, Beirut and Mykonos. Each tour stop carries the same DNA: open-air format where possible, terrace-sound DJs, full Space LED branding, dancers and the iconic confetti finale.
Cyprus 2026 is the first time the brand has run a two-day event in the Mediterranean since the closing party in 2016. That makes Ayia Napa, on 6-7 June 2026, a genuinely meaningful date in the post-2016 Space story.
The full post-closure timeline — the touring years at Studio 338 and the Greenwood, the 2022 sunset-strip return as Space Eat & Dance, the 2024 launch of Space Riccione in Italy, and Cyprus 2026 — is covered in detail on the dedicated What Happened to Space Ibiza? page.
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Sources: Space Ibiza official archives; Mixmag closing party coverage (October 2016); DJ Mag top-100 club reviews 1995-2016; Carl Cox official residency timeline. This page is editorial and is not affiliated with the official Space Ibiza brand.