About
Ikara Skates is a skate brand and is the continuation of one of the first pioneering and benchmark skate shops in Barcelona. Its history dates back to January 1991, Ikara opened its doors on Floridablanca street in the central Eixample Esquerra neighborhood and thus settled in the skate subculture of the city of Barcelona. That made it the heart and the percussionist of the rebellion of the young skaters of Barcelona settling down to create a lifestyle with their own character.
Ikara grew to be the expression of the center of the Barcelona skateboarding subculture, pioneers in the early 90's in distributing the first Californian skate brands to the peninsula, he was also a pioneer and organizer of the first state and national skateboard championships .
Since 2008, it opened its new section as an art gallery and changed its name to Ikara Skate Shop & gallery, located at 82 Urgell street in Barcelona. Where it was a skate shop and art gallery, whose objective was to promote skateboarding from the street and to welcome an emerging creative world, promoting current art and new trends.
In 2014 it was temporarily closed to undertake new artistic projects such as managing the artistic direction and curating the exhibitions of the international collective of artists Aura Division.
Its manager is the multidisciplinary artist and Barcelona skateboarding legend Hun Deok Lee He has been performing in various artistic events related to the subculture of the skate world, of which his intervention at the Picasso Museum for Big Draw, MACBA and CCCB among others stands out. Hun Deok is also a musician and composer, where he has been working on his new project called Cotton Tree where he has been a winner as in the 2021 emerging artist category of Julio Ruiz's Disco Grande radio show3.
After several years of acquiring new experiences and knowledge, he decided that it was time to return and he returns as a brand of exclusive products that ranges from collections of exclusive skateboards , clothing and graphic work that carry the art of Hun Deok Lee.
Ikara reopens its doors as Ikara Skates, a new brand where its first location will be a Flagship store in the form of an art gallery and skate shop located at Roger de Flor 241, where you can appreciate all its disciplines in the same pack "Skate , art and music" showing the emerging artistic side to give way to a new brand to continue defining a unique identity and attitude. Taking risks.