The Hague Pearls

Haagse Parels Nelis Company and Yespers: Winners 2025

Whistling at work, but not at the girls In the Schilderswijk neighbourhood, Grandpa Nelis stood high on his ladder – he was cleaning the windows and singing opera classics. He also had a heart for the neighbourhood, where he started training disadvantaged young people in...

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Nienke Hoogvliet: known worldwide, but not (yet) in The Hague

On the wall of her studio on Golden Rain Street, patches and patches of different textiles hang in rows below one another. Each with a slightly different reddish-brown hue each time. They are experiments on textiles with paint made from seaweed. Totally Nienke Hoogvliet (1989): she researches...

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