‘Hijack your life’ is artists’ Kalle Mattsson’s guiding dictum. Yet on Curaçao, life seemed to capture Mattsson; he experienced the island as social detox, a reset button, and a tropical jail. The graphic designer, who works and resides in Amsterdam, arrived on Curaçao in April for a three month residency at Instituto Buena Bista (IBB). [...]

Invitation The Vereniging Antilliaanse Netwerk will organize a meeting with the Curacao born artist David Bade on the 26th of June 2010. During this meeting David Bade shall give an introduction to his work and give a tour trough his “catch of the day” exhibition in the GEM Museum of contemporary arts in The Hague. [...]

IBB director Nancy Hoffmann recently gave a lecture about the Dutch Caribbean art scene at the Biennial de Pontevedra (Galicia), Spain. This lecture was titled: “Giant Steps From the Periphery”. The point that I am trying to make here is that looking at our residency program and the broad spectrum of artists that reside at [...]