Places Called Palaces

The installation offers an alternative guide to the actual palaces of The Hague, home of the Dutch royal family, including those that cater to the many, instead of the royal few. Focusing on fifteen shops, restaurants and stores in The Hague that are called palaces, attention is brought to the extraordinariness of everyday life, with its subtle yet intriguing importance.

These everyday palaces provide space for ordinary yet fundamental activities such as eating, getting a haircut, and creating community and belonging for customers. They are more substantial in the city than any royal palace.

Men's Hair Palace. Polyetherpaleis. Golden Palace. Athene's Palace. Platinum Palace. Roti Palace. Kaa Lun Palace. Haringpaleis. Café Palace. Rick's Vispaleis. Peter Vis and Snackpaleis. Jasmine Palace. Scheveningen Vispaleis. Suezkanaal Vispaleis. Hair Palace.

Platinum Palace engraving — Platinum Palace and Haring Paleis mirror engravings, part of the “Places Called Palaces” installation.

Haring Paleis engraving — Platinum Palace and Haring Paleis mirror engravings, part of the “Places Called Palaces” installation.

Polyetherpaleis — Installation view at Wonder Festival, Kortrijk and at Outside Through Within, KABK Graduation Show.

Athene’s Palace — Installation view at Wonder Festival, Kortrijk and at Outside Through Within, KABK Graduation Show.

Golden Palace — Screen-printed acrylic glasses, using rephrasing the store’s original branding, gifted and documented with the owners of the local stores. Rick's Vispaleis.

Roti Palace — Screen-printed acrylic glasses, using rephrasing the store’s original branding, gifted and documented with the owners of the local stores. Rick's Vispaleis.

Scheveningen Vispaleis — The employee of Harring Paleis with the print.

Jasmine Palace — The employee of Harring Paleis with the print.

Café Palace — The shop of Het Polyetherpaleis.

Rick’s Vispaleis — The shop of Het Polyetherpaleis.

Peter Vis and Snackpaleis — The employee of Vispaleis Schevningen.

Hair Palace — The employee of Vispaleis Schevningen.

Installation overview — Riso printed publication and the documentation of the stores called palaces.

Project details

Medium: Video installation / 3D reconstruction
Year: 2024

Dimensions

Variable installation dimensions

Exhibitions

Wonder Festival, Kortrijk, BE
All the Small Things, Z33, Hasselt, BE