About four times a year Instituto BB will host international artists or curators for one month to six weeks. During this period they will lecture, give workshops, do interventions in public space and /or work on their own work in progress. This program is managed on an invite only basis and is only accessible to artists who do not live in the Netherlands or Dutch Caribbean.
Holly Bynoe
Holly Bynoe is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of ARC Magazine a non-profit visual art and culture publication focused on contemporary art created in the Caribbean which specific focus on the integration and establishment of a dialogue between the region and at its diasporas. She graduated from Bard College | International Center of Photography, in 2010, […]
Read More...Katherine Kennedy
Katherine Kennedy is an artist and writer. She graduated from Lancaster University, UK with a degree in Creative Arts. She has won several awards for her artwork and writing in her home Barbados, and has exhibited internationally in London. Since returning home, she has remained immersed in creativity, completing a local artist residency, contributing to […]
Read More...Musings from the Milking Parlour at the Instituto Buena Bista
Visual artist Annalee Davis was a guest at IBB during our lustrum celebrations and also ran a very engaging project with our students. During this project she spearheaded an exchange between the students of the Barbados Community College and the students of IBB. You can read more about this in her column that ran on […]
Read More...Amable Lopez Melendez
Amable Lópoez Meléndez is a writer, art critic and curator. He was born in Puerto Plata on the Dominican Republic on the 14th of June 1960. He did his postdoc in history and geography of the caribbean at the Catholic University of Santo Domingo. Currently he is the chief curator at the Museum of Modern […]
Read More...Charo Oquet
“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 […]
Read More...Residencies
Chant van Lieshout
Artist in ResidenceSep 2024 > Dec 2024
Josefin Arnell
Artist in ResidenceJan 2025 > Apr 2025
Clemence Lollia Hilaire
Artist in ResidenceMay 2025 > Aug 2025
Yaïr Callender
Artist in ResidenceSep 2025 > Dec 2025