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.
Anna lee Davis
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 […]
Read More...Zien in de wolk van chaos (dutch article)
Tekst: Lisette Keus Van oorsprong is Boclé (1971) afkomstig uit Martinique, maar hij verhuisde op zijn veertiende naar Frankrijk. Daar studeerde hij onder meer ‘Moderne Literatuur’ aan de Sorbonne Universiteit en volgde opleidingen aan de ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ in zowel Bourges als Parijs. Zijn cv is indrukwekkend en zegt veel over Boclé als […]
Read More...Press Release: Lecture artist Jean Francois Boclé at IBB
The most significant occurrence in the life of an immigrant is ‘leaving’. Leaving your home ground, entering a new world, wherever that is; your point of reference is forever vividly engraved in your memory. Leaving Martinique at the age of 14, artist Jean Francois Boclé (Fort-de-France, ’71) moved to France, the motherland. In a way […]
Read More...La Boca
Artist Jean Boclé has been keeping a diary of his workshop with the IBB students on his site. It can be found here http://www.jeanfrancoisbocle.com/site.php?itemid=34&id=280&genre=6&idversion=290&idsub=48 and provides an insight into the workshop and some images that were taken.
Read More...Press Release/Invitation: Otobong Nkanga
The IBB re-opens her doors for this exciting and creative New Year with the presentation of one of her international guest artists.Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria, ’74), residing at our institute for four weeks, engaged in a daring new project with the students of our orientation course. Focused on the construction of spaces and especially the appearance […]
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