Open House at IBB 2015

For all those who are curious and/or pursue a career in the arts, come see what’s brewing at IBB! See how the classes go, as one of our tutors Omar Kuwas gives his photography workshop in the cyanotype technique, catch our artists Fiona Henriquez and Marvi J. Franco Zapata in action, painting on giant canvases. […]

IBB Founders at the 2015 Havana Biennial

IBB Founders at the Havana Biennial IBB (Instituto Buena Bista) founders David Bade and Tirzo Martha have been selected to contribute to the 12th edition of this renowned large-scale art manifestation. On behalf of Curaçao and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Martha and Bade will develop a “social sculpture”. For Tirzo Martha this will be […]

IBB on the Open Atelier Route 2015

OPEN ATELIER ROUTE 7 & 8 of March 2015. Instituto Buena Bista welcomes you. Come and see the works by students, the working spaces (also from the guest artists), the library, photography darkroom, sound studio and our exhibition space. We await you with a refreshment. From 10 am – 6 pm.

Intervention; IBB 2015

Curaçao, Martinique and a development for art education in the Caribbean

On November 21 2014 Instituto Buena Bista, (IBB) Curaçao, and Le Campus Caraïbéen des Arts, (CCA) Martinique, signed a PROTOCOL OF COOPERATION AGREEMENT TO GOVERN THE EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS and a MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. The signing of these agreements for collaboration, which took place in Fort-de-France Martinique, is of great importance to the developing and […]

Interview with artists Franciscus and Franciscus

Our student Narolian Mercelina made a short interview with our new AiR artists. In this interview they talk a bit about their background and also about how it happened that they applied for a residency here at IBB. Enjoy!

Bart Stuart & Klaar van der Lippe

http://www.burospelenblog.nl/ Bart Stuart (Tholen 1972) en Klaar van der Lippe (Leiden 1961) werken met ideeën in plaats van objecten. Ze denken op een beeldende manier over sociale processen. Burgerschap is een centraal thema. Kunst hoort niet alleen in de kunstwereld maar ook in het dagelijks leven. Bart en Klaar werken als duo sinds 2005 met […]

Kaleb de Groot

http://www.kalebdegroot.nl/ ABOUT THE WORK OF KALEB DE GROOT  by Huib Haye van der Werf    Perhaps the best way in which to describe the work of Kaleb de Groot is the term psychogeography. As Guy Debord defined it in 1955 ‘the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or […]