Photography at IBB: Babette Kleijn

For the last 3 months, Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) has had the Dutch visual artist Babette Kleijn as a guest in it’s resident program funded by the Fund for the Visual Arts (Fonds BKVB). Next to her personal work, Kleijn also gave a photography workshop to the students in our orientation course. We would like […]

Presentation Tomas

After a lot of hard work making instruments and learning how to play them, the IBB students —under the guidance of Tomas Adolfs and Monica Tormell— performed two musical pieces for the public present at the opening. Here are a video and some images of how the presentation went. Instrumental Bochincha Band from Instituto Buena […]

IBB Press Release: Tomas Adolfs and Monica Tormell

Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), the center for contemporary art on Curacao, has invited the artists Monica Tormell and Tomas Adolfs to give a workshop to the students of IBB and to help them with the final touches in the compiling of their portfolios. Tomas and Monica shall present their work on coming 3 of June […]

M and T at IBB

After working on Aruba for three months we arrived on Curacao the 9th of April, welcomed by an angry lady at the lost luggage desk, after that by the heat. Finally, after all the delay, we met up with David who came to pick us up from the airport. It instantly felt like coming home. […]

Meanwhile at IBB… Music!

Our students are currently working with artists Tomas Adolfs and Monica Tormell to create a new sound. The project revolves around making musical instruments using everyday object and/or trash. More on this projet will follow later. But here’s a quick peek at how they are doing.

Open Atelierroute 2011

The weekend of 14/15 May 2011 we will be participating in the Open Atelier route 2011 and will have extended opening hours. You are welcome to visit us on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00. For more information on the Open Atelier route please visit openatelierroute2011.wordpress.com

KEK

We recently were asked by the Capriles Clinic to help with a video presentation for a project they were running. In preparation for the celebrations around their 75th anniversary, a band was formed to performed at the festivities. To embody the mantra of “equality” that the Clinic wants to push, the band consists of both […]

Opening Reliefproject

Recently we had the opening of our relief project with did in cooperation with hotel ‘t Klooster, St. Albertus college and architect Lyongo Juliana. Our students and the students of the St. Albertus college re-imagined scenes of the bible in their own interpretation and then made them into clay reliefs under the guidance of artist […]