Press Release: Kalle Mattsson

‘Hijack your life’ is artists’ Kalle Mattsson’s guiding dictum. Yet on Curaçao, life seemed to capture Mattsson; he experienced the island as social detox, a reset button, and a tropical jail. The graphic designer, who works and resides in Amsterdam, arrived on Curaçao in April for a three month residency at Instituto Buena Bista (IBB). […]

Vereniging Antilliaanse Netwerk meeting with David Bade

Invitation The Vereniging Antilliaanse Netwerk will organize a meeting with the Curacao born artist David Bade on the 26th of June 2010. During this meeting David Bade shall give an introduction to his work and give a tour trough his “catch of the day” exhibition in the GEM Museum of contemporary arts in The Hague. […]

Year 09-10 closing IBB

We recently had our last “school day” here at IBB and this year it coincided with the birth date of artist / founder Tirzo Martha. The students that are going on with their studies in The Netherlands were also presented with a certificate this day. Here is an impression of the event.

IBB director Nancy Hoffmann lecturing on Dutch Caribbean

IBB director Nancy Hoffmann recently gave a lecture about the Dutch Caribbean art scene at the Biennial de Pontevedra (Galicia), Spain. This lecture was titled: “Giant Steps From the Periphery”. The point that I am trying to make here is that looking at our residency program and the broad spectrum of artists that reside at […]

KunstVlaai / ArtPie review of IBB stand

The kunstvlaai/artpie organisation made a review of the Instituto Buena Bista stand at the Kunstvlaai/Artpie exhibition. Follow the link to check it out: http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2010/2010/05/david-bade-tirzo-martha-en-instituo-buena-bista/

Otobong Nkanga

http://www.otobongnkanga.com/ More info about this artist and their project at IBB will be added at a later time.

La Pocha Nostra

Cross Contamination: The performance activism and oppositional art of La Pocha Nostra… In 1993, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes and Nola Mariano founded La Pocha Nostra in Los Angeles, California. The objective was to objectively formalize Gomez-Peña’s collaborations with other performance artists. In 1995, La Pocha Nostra moved to San Francisco’s Mission District. In late […]

Kostana Banovic

Koštana Banović (Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia) works in various disciplines and media such as drawing, performance, video and film. Her work considers the construction of identity, formed in relation to the other, especially in social dynamics revolving ritual, religious practices and ’other’ forms of communication. Her works provokes questions about the way of being-in-the-world, occupying time, and claiming autonomy and agency. Ritual has […]