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 […]

Anna lee Davis

Annalee Davis is a Barbadian Visual Artist producing installations, building objects and more recently, working with video. Her work exposes tensions within the larger context of a post-colonial Caribbean history and observes the nature of post-independent (failing?) nation states. She explores notions of home, longing and belonging; questions the parameters that define who belong (and […]

Press Release: Liesbeth Labeur Presentatie

Instituto Buena Bista, in cooperation with the Fund for the Visual Arts in Amsterdam, has had the artist Liesbeth Labeur as a guest in it’s guest program for Dutch artists. She is working on a graphic novel for which she did some research during her stay on Curacao. The book shall be published early next […]