IPS

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.

La Pocha Nostra

Cross Contamination: The performance activism and oppositional art of La Pocha Nostra… In 1993, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes and Nola Mariano founded La Pocha Nostra in Los Angeles, California. The objective was to objectively formalize Gomez-Peña’s collaborations with other performance artists. In 1995, La Pocha Nostra moved to San Francisco’s Mission District. In late […]

Kostana Banovic

Koštana Banović (Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia) works in various disciplines and media such as drawing, performance, video and film. Her work considers the construction of identity, formed in relation to the other, especially in social dynamics revolving ritual, religious practices and ’other’ forms of communication. Her works provokes questions about the way of being-in-the-world, occupying time, and claiming autonomy and agency. Ritual has […]

Ato Malinda

Ato Malinda is a performance, installation and video artist as well as an occasional painter from Nairobi, Kenya. She grew up in the Netherlands, Kenya and Texas and has subsequently returned to Kenya to discover a convoluted identity seeped in the apparent Jungian occurrences of East Africa, however contrastingly performed by semi-conscious amnesiacs. The histories […]

Students and Dzine at work

Students of IBB and IPS artist Dzine Rolon at work on the project.

Kara Walker in residence at Curacao Contemporary Art Center IBB

“Ms. Walker’s style is magnetic…Brilliant is the word for it, and the brilliance grows over the survey’s decade-plus span. And then there is the theme: race. It dominates everything, yet within it Ms. Walker finds a chaos of contradictory ideas and emotions.”    (The New York Times, review by Holland Cotter)  IBB – Curacao Center for […]