A night at Hï Ibiza for a second year running: Miss Monique also plays Tomorrowland’s Mainstage, now for the third time
She holds the Club Room residency for a second year in a row.
Ukrainian DJ and producer Miss Monique — real name Olesia Arkusha — is holding her residency in the Club Room of Hï Ibiza for a second year running. That is 18 weeks at one of the island’s most prestigious venues: across the 2026 season her stage hosts Pete Tong, Adam Beyer, Mathame, Benny Benassi, Joris Voorn, Nora En Pure, Kevin de Vries, Agents Of Time and Chris Avantgarde.
The artist spoke about it in an interview with DJ Mag.
The offer to headline a night at Hï came by phone from her manager. “He said, ‘Listen, there is something happening. You might feel stressed at first but you will like it,’” Miss Monique recalls. “Then he told me the Night League team were thinking about offering me a residency at Hï Ibiza, and my hands started shaking. That was one of the key moments of my life.”
The brightest memory of last season was David Guetta turning up in the booth in the middle of her set.
Guetta in the booth
“Someone touched my back exactly as I was mixing a track, and I was like, ‘Just wait, just wait please.’ Then someone touched me again. And when I turned around and saw David… I think someone caught that moment on video, and even now it makes me emotional,” she says.
It was Guetta who once invited her to play his Future Rave night after a chance meeting in Miami — the start of her regular trips to the island.
Last year Afrojack closed the season alongside her — and now the two have a joint track, ‘Hot Sauce’, released under his progressive alias Kapuchon.
This July Miss Monique is preparing a special show on Tomorrowland’s Freedom Stage, and plays the Mainstage for a third year in a row.
A show she has not done in 15 years
“It’s something I’ve never done in my 15-year career of DJing,” she teases, revealing nothing more.
She left Ukraine shortly after the full-scale invasion began and now lives in Lisbon, though most of her family and friends stayed home.
Lisbon, with family back home
“Since the first day when russia attacked my country, I’ve felt bad about this every day. I will never feel better until this horrible war is no longer happening,” she says.
The Club Room residency runs all season — for Miss Monique this is a second year in a row at Hï Ibiza.
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