Unveiling Calimero

On Friday, March 1, the sculpture of David Bade was unveiled at the Grote Marktstraat in The Hague. The sculptured titled ‘Calimero’ is the artist’s first Bronze sculpture and makes part of the van P. Struycken Sculpture Gallery. The sculpture is located in the heart of the Hague. Former lecturer of the IBB André Kruysen […]

Artists in Residence Jeroen Kooijmans en Elspeth Diederix

From January to April of 2013 artists Jeroen Kooijmans and Elspeth Diederix are going to be residing at the Instituto Buena Bista. Both are visual artists from the Netherlands and will give workshops here in the course of the following weeks. Jeroen Kooijmans(1967-Schijndel, the Netherlands) Jeroen studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy(1991 – 1995) […]

Barbados Exchange Retrospect. By Kristel Rigaud

This project for me was from day one was already amazing. Before even arriving in Barbados, we had to wait for our 5 hour layover to be over at Trinidadian airport we had a minute to check outside of the terminal, seeing all those hills was refreshing and the place had a similar island feel […]

Student Reviews of works by Jesus Toppenberg.

As an exercise our students were asked to review / critique the works by one of our current exposing artist Jesus Toppenberg. Here are some of the thoughts of the students on the collection of works. Inspiring yet strange The fact that Mr. Toppenberg made all of his artworks despite his disablity is more than […]

Rieneke de Vries

In Rieneke de Vries’ artists practice a lot can be found: Research, conversation, traveling, writing, film, photography, paper sculptures… New connections are made all the time. Rieneke has a preference for naive art, psychiatry, human rights, philosophy, perception, soap opera, clichés and rolemodels such as the victim versus the offender or majority versus minority. In […]

Machteld Solinger

Machteld Solinger (1986, Goedereede) graduated in 2008 from the AKV/St Joost in Breda. She’s been living and working in Rotterdam ever since. Her primary focus is painting, but she’s currently researching possibilities in making three-dimensional works from her ideas and paintings. “I love the duality in shape, material and functionality. I look for contrasts in […]