Rienus Gundel Franciscus

Franciscus & Franciscus are the joined forces of artist F. Franciscus (1959, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and graphic designer Rienus Gündel Franciscus (1967, Dordrecht, the Netherlands). During a work visit in New York in February/ March 2012, Mr. and Mr. Franciscus developed the idea to make these photographic portraits as autonomous art works. Back in Amsterdam […]

Frans Franciscus

The works of F. Franciscus present an exhibition highlighting modern art mostly inspired by classic European paintings often with a biblical background. The artist’s sources of inspiration include pieces by painters like Hendrick ter Brugghen, Caravaggio and Bronzino. He combines or re-arranges compositions of old masters depicting biblical stories in an up-to-date and idiosyncratic fashion. […]

Exhibition Antuan Rodriguez and Jose Manuel Noceda

For these past 8 years, the IBB has been inviting artists and theoreticians from all over the globe in order to create more references and insight for not only the IBB students but also to the general public of Curacao as well. We try as much as possible to be diverse in our selection in […]

Jose Manuel Noceda

Graduated in Art History from the University of Havana, Cuba (1984), he is specialist of Wilfredo Lam and of Caribbean and Central American contemporary art. José Manuel Noceda was the curator of the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wilfredo Lam and co-directed it between 2001 and 2005. He was responsible for the selection of the artists […]

Felix & Mumford

Felix & Mumford (Egypt and Holland) with their usual ironic language that is able to break the logical chain of formal narratives, present for the theme of Wunderblock, a collection of traces left on park benches and walls around the Grimmuseum. Beyond a possible attempt to rewrite the trails, they built conjugating engrams, traces and […]

Ssenkaaba Samson a.k.a. Xenson

Ssenkaaba Samson (Xenson) is a young multi talented creator of the unconventional with extraordinary imagination and unfound creativity greatly influenced by the grandeur of African arts, African cultures, vitality of African dance and Hip-Hop as a free expressive art form. He is at the vanguard of a youthful art renaissance that refuses to be pigeonholed […]

Antuan Rodriguez

Antuan artworks can slip simultaneously through two perspectives of time. On one angle he bears the complex circumstance of our present, the contradictory story of Western history where we are today. At the same time, he collects fragments from a mangled past excluded by history, creating objects and installations of unstable harmony. For him, the […]