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 […]

Expansion of Lucia Luptakova Exhibition; Pinhole Photography workshop

Parallel to the exhibition of Lucia and her project with the IBB students we also have a presentation of the workshop Pinhole photography that was given by Omar Kuwas. This branch of photography is a throwback to the starting days of photography and allowed the students to work with this medium at it’s most basic […]

Exhibition Lucia Luptáková and IBB Students

It reminds us of the Droste-effect. Residing within the walls of the IBB pavilion, at the same time within the walls of a psychiatric clinic and after that a ‘wall’ of water called the Caribbean Sea; visual artist Lucia Luptáková (1977, Slovakia) felt enclosed within many layers. An island, in an island, in an island… […]