I am back in Amsterdam and I refuse to unpack my suitcases. As if it kept me closer to Curaçao, unwilling to let it go just yet… Also, when I close my eyes I can not only see but feel and relive vividly my recent routine activities: moving through the house, sitting in my atelier, [...]

For the last 3 months, Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) has had the Dutch visual artist Babette Kleijn as a guest in it’s resident program funded by the Fund for the Visual Arts (Fonds BKVB). Next to her personal work, Kleijn also gave a photography workshop to the students in our orientation course. We would like [...]

After a lot of hard work making instruments and learning how to play them, the IBB students —under the guidance of Tomas Adolfs and Monica Tormell— performed two musical pieces for the public present at the opening. Here are a video and some images of how the presentation went. Instrumental Bochincha Band from Instituto Buena [...]

Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), the center for contemporary art on Curacao, has invited the artists Monica Tormell and Tomas Adolfs to give a workshop to the students of IBB and to help them with the final touches in the compiling of their portfolios. Tomas and Monica shall present their work on coming 3 of June [...]