Babette Kleijn

Babette Kleijn @ galeries.nl

My work is an ongoing investigation into constitution of spaces. I construct site-specific spatial/architectural installations. My starting points are routines, presumptions and taken-for-granted aspects of a specific location and situation. I work with the spatial and architectural elements at a given location (such as windows, doors, staircases, columns …), with the expectations connected to the […]

Jean François Boclé

In a sometimes sarcastic and willingly provocative manner, Boclé questions the blockages and circulations between present and past, individual narrative and history. His work is a poetic and political approach of the contemporary world marked by «a chaotic Us, the Holly Marchandise, the migrations, exile, exclusion, the exchange, the loss»(1). He brings closer together his […]

Koen Delaere at IBB

During the course of his stay at the IBB artist Koen Delaere also did a project with the IBB students. They were to make a cooperative mural on the walls of the institute. Here they were allowed to use non conventional techniques like applying paint using random objects or body parts of the painter. They […]

Newsletter October 2010

Dear friends, Our local visitors probably have noticed it by now: IBB has moved into a new building. Although it was hard to leave our central location in the center of Willemstad, we gained a lot of space by relocating to a space of over 900 m2: the Orkidia pavilion at Klinika Capriles (Mohikanenweg 8). […]

IBB Press Release: Capriles Kliniek

Donderdag 9 september om 15:00 uur, vond in het nieuwe onderkomen van het IBB, Curaçao Center for Contemporary Art, op het terrein van Klinika Capriles, een persconferentie plaats in het kader van de nieuwe samenwerking tussen beide organisaties. Het paviljoen genaamd ‘Orkidia’ op het terrein van de kliniek stond reeds enige tijd leeg, zonder directe […]

We’re Moving….

As of august 14th 2010 the Instituto Buena Bista is no longer located at De Ruyterkade 58. We have moved to the Orkidia building on the Capriles Kliniek premises. Our new visitors address is Mohikanenweg 8. To get to us you have to go to the main entrance of the Capriles Clinic and sign in […]

Press Release: Kalle Mattsson [reveal]

PARADISE/PARASITE, SOLD/STOLEN and an image of the slave column at the former Curaçaoan plantation Zorgvlied transposed by a handmade drawing of a Coca Cola commercial. These works of art by Kalle Mattsson are posted on three Curaçaoan bill boards as of today. Mattsson, a resident at Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) during the second quarter of […]