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)

“Miami-based interdisciplinary artist, Charo Oquet’s works in multiple mediums, including metal, wood, textile, ceramic, photography, installation, video and performance. Her works include a broad spectrum of diverse sources ranging from Christian and Afro-Caribbean religion iconography, Russian Constructivism, folklore, trash culture, Surrealism and carnival. Her approach features and integrated and participatory process often carried out in [...]

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Annalee Davis is a Barbadian Visual Artist producing installations, building objects and more recently, working with video. Her work exposes tensions within the larger context of a post-colonial Caribbean history and observes the nature of post-independent (failing?) nation states. She explores notions of home, longing and belonging; questions the parameters that define who belong (and [...]

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Press Release: Liesbeth Labeur Presentatie

Instituto Buena Bista, in cooperation with the Fund for the Visual Arts in Amsterdam, has had the artist Liesbeth Labeur as a guest in it’s guest program for Dutch artists. She is working on a graphic novel for which she did some research during her stay on Curacao. The book shall be published early next [...]

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Artist in Residence Liesbeth Labeur is quite busy with her book workshop with the students. Here’s a peek at how it’s going.

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