Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum work together under the name PolakVanBekkum. They collaborate as an artist duo since 2010, their collaboration goes back as far as almost 25 years. Esther Polak is educated in fine arts and painting at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Ivar van Bekkum is educated as journalist. Since 2002 their work […]

Maura Biava

Maura Biava was born in Reggio Emila Italy in September 1970. She graduated at the Academy of Brera in Milan Italy in 1992. She study at the Rijksakademie in Am- sterdam The Netherlands in 1997-1999. As an interdisciplinary artist her work took her to several residencies, most recently she has been in residence at European […]

Willum Geerts

As multidisciplinary artist Geerts plays through prosaic elements from the everyday with the major themes of our absurd existence. In a poetic, associative and satirical way, his projects question the status quo of our contemporary off- and online world, in which the raw reality is in intimate entanglement with the world of entertainment. Since Willum […]

AIR Wouter Osterholt With Action in Otrobanda

Wouter Osterholt – Golden Tide Wouter Osterholt is the current artist in residence at Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) in the program funded by Mondriaan Fund. He’s currently in the closing phase of this period on Curacao and will be culminating his residency with a special action in Otrobanda. During his four months (May till August […]

All you Can Art 2019 Summer School

During All You Can Art 2019, just like in previous years, there are various social projects and a summer school happening. One example of this is the project IBB co-founder Tirzo Martha is doing at the Laurens care facility in delfshaven. You can see a longer piece on this projects here: https://institutobuenabista.com/2019/all-you-can-art-4-tirzo-martha-at-laurens-delfshaven/. The summer school […]