Dutch residents (of at least 2 years!) please apply for this program at:
The Mondriaan Fund
More information about this residency program can be found on the site of the Mondriaan fund: https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/apply-for-a-grant/grants/residency/instituto-buena-bista-curacao/
All applications go through the online application portal of the Mondriaan Fund at the following link
https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/apply-for-a-grant/login/
For this residency program the IBB is looking for visual artists that feel attracted to a more rural and basic surrounding – opposite to for instance ‘the big city’ and well constructed societies – and therefore dares to challenge him or herself with a surrounding that doesn’t have an answer for everything. Our institute is constructed around our young talents that follow our orientation course. The residency is primarily an atelier where the artist is expected to make new work. Aside of this interaction with the students is desired in a way that approaches the master-apprentice relationship. Be this through workshops, series of lectures or another form.
The current deadline for applications is MARCH 21, 2024
It’s now a month later. Much has changed in the past years on Curacao. The stone at bluebay isn’t on the hill anymore! (I made a facebook album with pitures from the 80s) I’m very busy with interviews, reading books and making drawings. The making of a book is quite a lot of work. As […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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