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 […]

Ato Malinda

Ato Malinda is a performance, installation and video artist as well as an occasional painter from Nairobi, Kenya. She grew up in the Netherlands, Kenya and Texas and has subsequently returned to Kenya to discover a convoluted identity seeped in the apparent Jungian occurrences of East Africa, however contrastingly performed by semi-conscious amnesiacs. The histories […]

David Bade’s retrospective exhibition

David Bade’s retrospective exhibition in museum GEM (www.gem-online.nl) , The Hague and GEMAK (www.gemak.org). Pictures, videos and other impressions: http://www.flickr.com/photos/de_buurman/sets/72157623754456480/ 12 small videos David Bade walking you through his exhibition): www.bdyoutube.com (search for videos David Bade) or www.smartphonevideos.net (search David Bade) national television: www.nps.nl search for KUNSTSTOF TV aflevering 4 april search for KUNSTSTOF RADIO […]

Press release: IBB at the ArtPie / KunstVlaai

The Instituto Buena Bista(IBB) is honored to announce it’s contribution to the Amsterdam ArtPie/KunstVlaai (www.kunstvlaai.nl): an alternative exhibition that started 10 years ago as a reaction towards the commercial ArtFair of Amsterdam. Over the years the ArtPie/KunstVlaai developed into a yearly ‘state of the arts’ that stands on its own that doesn’t even takes place […]

IBB Kids working with Maartje Folkeringa

Alongside her own project Folkeringa conducted a seminar with the IBB students. The students imagined and described an imaginary persona. After this Maartje questioned them extensively to get to the core of their character and characteristics. Upon choosing a medium, they set of to work. Wonderful and widely varied works of art were made that […]

Press release: Maartje Folkeringa

The Instituto Buena Bista – in collaboration with the fonds voor beeldende kunst (fund for the visual arts) in amsterdam- has for the past 3 months had the dutch visual artist Maartje Folkeringa as a guest in her residency program. Alongside her own work she also developed a workshop with the IBB students. We invite […]

Maartje Folkeringa writes about her residency on Curacao [2]

Maartje Folkeringa | With Faultless i close my bedroom door, with bern the porch door, with Guard the front door and with Abus the gate at the frontside of the house. Three minutes later i open a gate with Nemef, another one with Ivana, the third with Fearless and finally my studio door with Ivana […]