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… […]

Carnaval Fever

February was the month of carnaval on Curacao. While our plan to march with Capriles in the parade didn’t go trough, we co-operated anyways on a background for their roadside station in the neighborhood of marchena. Our students and the clients of the Capriles clinic worked on their vision of a superhero and made 2 […]

Zien in de wolk van chaos (dutch article)

Tekst: Lisette Keus Van oorsprong is Boclé (1971) afkomstig uit Martinique, maar hij verhuisde op zijn veertiende naar Frankrijk. Daar studeerde hij onder meer ‘Moderne Literatuur’ aan de Sorbonne Universiteit en volgde opleidingen aan de ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ in zowel Bourges als Parijs. Zijn cv is indrukwekkend en zegt veel over Boclé als […]

Invitation lecture Tarja Szaraniec and Orpheu de Jong

The Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), the center for contemporary art that has been situated within the walls of the Klinika Capriles since 2010 and where young talents are prepared for a future in the visual arts, would like to invite you to a special lecture / presentation. The IBB has joined in an exchange with […]

Wall reliefs project nearing completion

Our reliefs that we made in co-operation with the St. Albertus primary school are finally reaching the end of their journey. After being fired in the ovens at artist Ellen Spijkstra’s workplace they are now slowly but surely being moved to their final places in the alcoves on the wall of the St. Albertus primary […]

Press Release: Lecture artist Jean Francois Boclé at IBB

The most significant occurrence in the life of an immigrant is ‘leaving’. Leaving your home ground, entering a new world, wherever that is; your point of reference is forever vividly engraved in your memory.  Leaving Martinique at the age of 14, artist Jean Francois Boclé (Fort-de-France, ’71) moved to France, the motherland. In a way […]

La Boca

Artist Jean Boclé has been keeping a diary of his workshop with the IBB students on his site. It can be found here http://www.jeanfrancoisbocle.com/site.php?itemid=34&id=280&genre=6&idversion=290&idsub=48 and provides an insight into the workshop and some images that were taken.