Welcome at the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) website; the Curaçao Center for Contemporary Art that started in september 2006.
The IBB offers an orientation course for young talents whom we – as a team – select through scouting and then guide and support towards a future in the creative field. To give a broad as possible view on the contemporary art field to our students, visitors and participants of our workshops (ArteSwa projects) within the community, we invite visual artists from all over the globe to Curaçao to give us new views – ‘buena bista’s’ – on the possibilities of art. This website tries to give you a complete view of our program but please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions: info@institutobuenabista.com
You can visit us on weekdays between 1.00 and 6.00 pm at Mohikanenweg 8 (at the Capriles clinic. Sign in at the security and as for the ‘Orkidia’ pavilion)
Between the 2nd of January and 30th of April artist Yasser Ballemans will have a residency at the Instituto Buena Bista on Curacao. Together with students of the institute he is going to participate in the annual Curacao carnaval parade. Inside Out stands for the emergence of art in the carnaval parade of Curacao. We [...]
Read More...In the last 3 months the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), in cooperation with the Fund for Visual Arts in Amsterdam, had in her guest program the artist couple Ruben La Cruz and Karolien Helweg as guests. Ruben La Cruz (’54) was born on Curacao and Karolien Helweg (’63) in the Netherlands. They have been working [...]
Read More...To commemorate and reflect on the past 5 years, IBB had a documentary made. It tries to give a quick 10 minute glance into what IBB has been up to in the last five years. You’ll see work done by the artists in residence and from our international program, but also works done by the [...]
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