“For decades, Black artists have been overlooked and underrepresented in mainstream museums and arts institutions. This discrepancy has led many artists and entrepreneurs to take the initiative to create alternative spaces and develop organizations that provide a myriad of opportunities for artists to thrive. This week ADAMA Art Salon hosts a conversation with leaders of […]

Yina Jiménez Suriel, es curadora e investigadora. Obtuvo su maestría en historia del arte y cultura visual con enfoque en estudios visuales por la Universitat de València. Ha colaborado en distintas instituciones, entre ellas Casa Quien y el Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. Forma parte del equipo curatorial de Centro León en República Dominicana, […]

Kristin McIver’s multi-disciplinary conceptual practice includes sculpture, painting, video sound and installation. Her mixed media installations and artworks explore themes of identity, culture, and new forms of representation in the digital age. Recent works examine personal identity and its relationship to social media, and how the participants of digital culture become both the subject and […]

Faizah is a young freelance choreographer, dancer & educator. Throughout her career as a choreographer she has created 14 works that form part of the repertoire of Laleget Danza, Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM, Harlekijn danstheater, Lindenberg Dance Company, Stichting Julius Leeft, the University of the Arts in Amsterdam and her own projects. Her choreographies […]

Johanna Franco Zapata (’85) was born in Colombia and has been living on Curaçao since 1993.  She started her preparatory course at the Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) in 2006. Johanna then studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld academy till 2012 and has been working with the IBB since 2014 as a student advisor and […]

Alydia Wever is a contemporary artist from Aruba. Trained in Musical Theater and Dance at the Boston Conservatory and The Alvin Ailey School in New York City, she is known for multidisciplinary work (dance/theater/film), installations and performance art. Her work is presented in the Caribbean, USA, Brazil and Europe. Her installation “Peña Saca” is part […]

Artist : Felix de Rooy & Vernon Chatlein will talk about their artistic practice and upcoming project “Papia” that is touring on Curacao. Felix De Rooy (Curacao, 1952) is a visual artist, poet, writer, filmmaker, theater director and curator. He has a BFA degree from the Free Academy of Psychopolis in The Hague, Netherlands and […]

About Nelson Gonzalez Born in Maracaibo, 23rd of November, 1979. He lives and works in Aruba since 2003. He is a contemporary artist, producer and teacher. Founder of Art Rap Foundation Aruba. Started his formation at a young age. His work can be considered a hybrid platform which harmonizes audiovisual elements, performance and installments. He […]

Van Haver refers to her work as ‘loud’ paintings that sympathetically portray people on the fringes of society. She works on burlap, combining oil paint, charcoal, resin, hair, paper, tar and ash in heavily textured compositions. The paintings explore race and identity, drawing from African, Western, Caribbean and Latin American cultures within her community in […]

Avantia Damberg (UniArte) in conversation with @Sasha Dees and @Willum Geerts, both art residents in Curacao, Dees at UniArte and Geerts at IBB. Damberg will question them about their work experiences in Curacao as well as their broader experience with international residencies and how residencies could benefit the art field and its professionals in Curacao. […]