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.

Press Release/Invitation: Otobong Nkanga

The IBB re-opens her doors for this exciting and creative New Year with the presentation of one of her international guest artists.Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria, ’74), residing at our institute for four weeks, engaged in a daring new project with the students of our orientation course. Focused on the construction of spaces and especially the appearance […]

Newsletter December 2010

Dear friends, colleagues, family and supporters, Last September IBB started her orientation course for young talents for the fours time since 2006. With 11 marvelous young talents and 12 students staying from last year, we currently have the biggest group ever. Nonetheless the group blended very well over the last few months, as they always […]