NICOLÓ BELLI, Palace In City Residency, Berlin 2019 : “What was special about this event was the unpretentious and welcoming atmosphere, the humanity of the works dynamics and the sensation of simplicity evoked by the curatorial quality. The atmosphere was really relaxed and uncomplicated, the right environment to work on your expressivity. The workshops leaders where presenting the exercises like they were sharing a wonderful discovery with some friends and this attitude helped to create very nice and equal group dynamics.”
JACKY JANES, Palace In City Residency, Berlin 2019 : “There was a great freedom of creating the events in a very natural way. This ability to act and shape The Palace freely (within the implicit value system) in addition to the members intrinsic passion to invest their time and energy into this project, gave me the sense of a living, self run organism with collective ownership. Each of the workshops I attended amazed me because of the open and welcoming energy. I enjoyed the diverse topics and was inspired by the passion of the hosts for their respective fields. What struck me most was the freedom of the format of each workshop.”
LAMB KEBAB, Residency 2017 : "The Palace was an amazing opportunity to meet diverse artists with similar interests, these connections have been invaluable to help develop my own work. As a result of those I met, I have since worked with the photographer Sophie Le Roux and artist Danielo Schaffer, on a shoot for my album release. I won't have wait until then to find another wonderful opportunity to collaborate creatively within The Palace community."
ANONYMOUS VOICES, Poland Residency 2018:
“Motivation and inspiration generator for any type of human”
“The space that helped me to realise it's possible to live life as a creative artist.”
“The place where everything is possible, the place without prejudices and stereotypes, where you can be yourself - and it is OK! Discovers yourself in a different context, where you get full openness and acceptance.”
ANONYMOUS, Residency 2017 : “The palace was an out and out success. The crowd felt equally as accountable as the organisers, no one was a consumer. Every contributor benefited from having all eyes and ears on them, this was incredibly validating and legitimised everything that was put on. More or less every festival offers pageantry, and while the palace did this very well, it offers so much more under the surface. The main words that come to mind are breadth and versatility. There was no one genre - every artist, writer and performer was welcome.”
JEANETTE MANSSON, In City Residency, Berlin 2018
Just a place with people with big hearts and from start to end a totally fire work inspirational place. Here everybody work together and to bring the good stuff out of people no matter who you are or where you come from… And to do my performance for this group of people was just AMAZING! I am so happy to have met you all and don’t stop doing what you do
FABIAN HOFFER, Residency 2016
"The Palace 2016 was a great experience of true collaboration. Imagine 120 people of different ages, cultural background, many of which don't know each other come together for an intense five-day event cooking together, building, learning, being creative, cleaning, caring for each other. It felt like family at the end."
