Join a special Background Evening with artist Agnieszka Polska, whose exhibition Travels in scale is currently on view at 1646.
Each Background Evening offers a unique opportunity to gain deeper insight into the ideas and personal histories that shape the exhibition. Visitors are invited not only to listen, but also to ask questions and engage in dialogue with the artist.
It is time for art to eat again! Chef Thomas Vandenhecke is creating another delicious menu for Edible Concepts inspired by Travels in scale by Agnieszka Polska.
For each edition, 1646 invites a chef to respond to the exhibition with flavour sensations, unexpected textures and exceptional garnishes. A multi-course dinner full of culinary experimentation and edible interpretations, served amid the artworks – for one evening, the exhibition transforms into a sensory total experience.
This second edition of Edible Concepts, Thomas Vandenhecke is taking care of the dinner again. He is head chef at restobar ñ in The Hague since 2019 and has a strong focus on (vegetarian) experimental cooking, preserving, fermenting, sea food and wild game.
This edition of Edible Concepts will be completely vegetarian.
Date: January 16, 2026
Time: 18.30 – 22.00
Price: €57,50 (including wine pairing)
Please note: only a limited number of places are available.
Reserve your spot for this exclusive dinner here!
After New York, Paris, London, Warshaw, Shanghai and Venice, visual artist and film director Agnieszka Polska is coming to The Hague to fill 1646 with her immersive video works and installations. Super excited for coming Winter!
In her work, Agnieszka Polska shuffles different positions and perspectives, exploring the complexities of today’s technologised world. By shifting scale, her artworks turn into almost existential exercises: what first feels overwhelming can become crystal clear up close, or surprisingly simple from a distance.
Through a poetic voice – sometimes blunt, sometimes tender – Polska reflects on the contradictions of our time: our ability to experience normality and love while man-made catastrophes unfold; the tension between mortality, decay, and the indifference that infiltrates daily routines.
Her first solo exhibition in The Netherlands titled Travels in scale places the visitor back in the role of observer. What position do we take, as individuals and as a collective? And how does the way we look shape how we act?
The exhibition is made possible by the generous loan from the artist and Lombardi—Kargl.
