Odor, Immaterial Sculptures

Welcome speeches by Hans-Heinrich Grosse-Brockhoff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and President of The Peter Paul Rubens-Foundation, and Thomas Thiel, Director and curator the exhibition.

Admission is free. The opening will be followed by drinks, snacks and DJ set by Altuu.

The planned exhibition is dedicated entirely to the “power of smells”. “Odor” presents a selection of works that focus our appreciation of art on smell as an olfactory and spatial experience.

The sculptures on display are exclusively immaterial, including existing works as well as new ones that have been developed on site, all confronting visitors with the capacities of their sense of smell. Minimal, artistic interventions in the architecture make rooms breathe, walls produce odours, and floors transpire. Based on this immediate experience, the exhibition touches on up-to-date topics such as self-perception, corporeality, transience, climate and politics. It also raises the question of sensory interrelations as a component of artistic experience.

With contributions by
Jason Dodge
Carsten Höller
Koo Jeong A
Oswaldo Maciá
Teresa Margolles
Pamela Rosenkranz
Sissel Tolaas
Clara Ursitti
​Luca Vitone

“Odor” is being created in collaboration with the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum and will be shown 2023 in Innsbruck under different spatial conditions as from March 2023.

Supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (The Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia)

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