Press Release and Invitation: Ruben la Cruz en Karolien Helweg

In the last 3 months the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), in cooperation with the Fund for Visual Arts in Amsterdam, had in her guest program the artist couple Ruben La Cruz and Karolien Helweg as guests. Ruben La Cruz (’54) was born on Curacao and Karolien Helweg (’63) in the Netherlands. They have been working […]

IBB 5 Year Recap Documentary

To commemorate and reflect on the past 5 years, IBB had a documentary made. It tries to give a quick 10 minute glance into what IBB has been up to in the last five years. You’ll see work done by the artists in residence and from our international program, but also works done by the […]

Musings from the Milking Parlour at the Instituto Buena Bista

Visual artist Annalee Davis was a guest at IBB during our lustrum celebrations and also ran a very engaging project with our students. During this project she spearheaded an exchange between the students of the Barbados Community College and the students of IBB. You can read more about this in her column that ran on […]

IBB celebration recap

You read about it in the newspapers, in the magazines and online. You even saw it on television… It’s Instituto Buena Bista’s first lustrum celebration! Five years of building, cutting, pasting and adapting. On October 24 the celebrations of 5 years IBB got a symbolic start with 2 seminars for the students of IBB by […]

Fifth Year Anniversary Celebration

At the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) we find ourself now, 2011, in the year of our fifth anniversary. Five years of building, cutting, pasting and adjusting. But just like with a responsible management or administration the moment has arrived to examine and evaluate. Inspect everything that has happened in the past years and decide if […]

10-10-10 sculpture

Fro the celebration of the first year of status aparte within the dutch kingdom, IBB was asked to create a piece of work that would be unveiled during the nightly celebrations. We were asked to task the students with making works that show the future they envision for Curacao, or how they see that Curacao […]

Amable Lopez Melendez

Amable Lópoez Meléndez is a writer, art critic and curator. He was born in Puerto Plata on the Dominican Republic on the 14th of June 1960. He did his postdoc in history and geography of the caribbean at the Catholic University of Santo Domingo. Currently he is the chief curator at the Museum of Modern […]

Charo Oquet

“Miami-based interdisciplinary artist, Charo Oquet’s works in multiple mediums, including metal, wood, textile, ceramic, photography, installation, video and performance. Her works include a broad spectrum of diverse sources ranging from Christian and Afro-Caribbean religion iconography, Russian Constructivism, folklore, trash culture, Surrealism and carnival. Her approach features and integrated and participatory process often carried out in […]