All You Can Art Takes Residence at Pauluskerk Rotterdam

From Wednesday 4 May, All you can Art – the in-depth collaboration between Kunsthal Rotterdam and Instituto Buena Bista Curaçao – will take up residence at the Pauluskerk Rotterdam for a period of six weeks. The Pauluskerk offers a safety net to the city’s most vulnerable people. On three days a week, various All you […]

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ART SLEEPOVER

For a period of eight weeks, five artworks from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands are staying in the homes of various Rotterdammers. The project Art Sleepover, which was postponed for a year because of COVID-19, connects the Rotterdam communities of the Paulus church, Het Gemaal op Zuid, Reakt, Laurens care for the elderly, […]

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STUDIO CALDER NOW

Make an animal out of paper, experiment with balance, and create a new work of art for the square in front of the Kunsthal! In Studio Calder Now you can join the All you can Art artists to work on an assignment. Your source of inspiration will be Alexander Calder’s artworks and the major themes […]

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All you can Art and Reakt intensify collaboration through new project: Kunstness

From March the outreach of All you can Art – the in-depth collaboration between Kunsthal Rotterdam and Instituto Bueno Bista Curaçao (IBB) – will extend beyond Rotterdam. During the project ‘Kunstness’, four All you can Art artists will take turns in visiting various locations of Reakt around the country. This organisation, which is part of […]

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IBB Open House 2022

OPEN HOUSE AT ART COURSE INSTITUTO BUENA BISTA Are you a young creatively oriented person? Do you want to pursue a career with this talent? Do you know someone who is? Then this is your chance! Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) is the local preparatory course for creative youth on Curacao who want to pursue a […]

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Ellen Spijkstra

Through the years Spijkstra has been a familiar face at IBB participating both as a guest teacher giving workshops to the students at IBB and also as project lead on multiple projects. I was born and raised in the Netherlands. In 1980, one year after graduating from Academy Minerva, School for Fine Arts and Design, […]

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IBB students bring street-art performance Sandmapping to Punda and Otrobanda on December 8, 2021.

On December 8, between 14:00 and 16:30, four to five groups of students from the Instituto Buena Bista will perform the street-art performance Sandmapping on five routes in Punda. The group will then walk via the pontoon bridge accompanied by the PCD brassband to the brion square, where a final composition will be performed. During […]

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IBB student and alumni participating in ‘Kòrsou – Curaçao’ exhibition of dutch National Archive

In the National Archives there is a lot to find about Curaçao. These documents were largely formed when the island was still in the hands of the West India Company (WIC) or when it was a Dutch colony. These archival documents, photographs and maps mainly show the perspective and the lifestyle of the colonial rulers. […]

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Residencies

Charlotte Lagro

Artist in Residence
Feb 2024 > Apr 2024

Rah Naqvi

Artist in Residence
May 2024 > Aug 2024

Chantal van Lieshout

Artist in Residence
Sep 2024 > Dec 2024