Osmodrama at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Welt ohne Außen, Berlin 2018

„Quarter Autocomplete“ / Osmodrama via Smeller 2.0
Installation and Synosmy by Wolfgang Georgsdorf, 2018
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 8th June – 5th August 2018

Exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin:
Welt ohne Außen – Immersive Spaces since the 1960s
„Ranging from the Light and Space Movement of the late 1960s, to works by contemporary artists like Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Cyprien Gaillard, and performances and workshops, this exhibition spans a panorama, featuring a great variety of immersive practices which dissolve categories of viewer and work and diminish the distance between subject and object. Immersive works can only be experienced in their own respective temporality – they need a phase of departure, of immersion and emergence for which the exhibition will develop a specific dramaturgy.“

A group exhibition organised by Berliner Festspiele as part of the programme Immersion, curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender.

Line up:
Larry Bell, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Renée Coulombe, Lou Drago, Fernanda Farah, Lucio Fontana & Nanda Vigo, Ed Fornieles Studios & Omsk Social Club, Peter Frost und die Gruppe Le Frau, Cyprien Gaillard, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė (Young Girl Reading Group), Wolfgang Georgsdorf, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Stefanie Görisch, Jeppe Hein, Hidden Agency / ∞OS und Gäste, Carsten Höller, Ana Jordão, Justin Kennedy, Lea Kieffer mit Angela Schubot & Rocio Marano, Dambi Kim, Isabel Lewis, Ángela Muñoz Martínez, Nonny de la Peña, Susan Ploetz, Thomas Proksch, Tabita Rezaire, Xavier Le Roy, Maria Francesca Scaroni & Mieko Suzuki, Scent Club Berlin, Tino Sehgal, Colin Self, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Jessy Tuddenham, two-women-machine-show, Doug Wheeler a.o.

Osmodrama:
Osmodrama is an interdisciplinary project that introduces a new artistic practice: compositions of precise smell sequences that are performed alone, or in interaction with other art forms.

The required instrument Smeller 2.0 is an electronically controlled scent organ, constructed to create smell sequences. This functional instrument was developed by Wolfgang Georgsdorf in collaboration with experts from fields such as perfuming, olfactory science, ventilation engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science. In 2012 Smeller 2.0 was first installed and run at the OK-Center for Contemporary Arts in Linz, Austria. Smeller 2.0 weighs 1.6 tons and presently has 64 smell channels available, through which controlled airstreams and prepared smells can be injected into a room, in a predetermined sequence.

The location:
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Welt ohne Außen
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
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Fr., 8th June – 5th August 2018
Opening hours: Wed. to Mon. 10:00 to 19:00, Tue. closed

Osmodrama Team 2018:
Wolfgang Georgsdorf, Kasper Helml, Daniel Paschen, Noah Nixon, Mark Dostert, Michèle Bavaud, Laura Grotjohann, Svenja Rieck

With the friendly support of MDT-tex, IFF – International Flavors & Fragrances, JAEGER AUSBAU Berlin, LA BIOSTHÉTIQUE and STUDIO LIVIUS.

For press enquiries please contact:
Marte Kräher, info@martekraeher.de, 0176-48538114

Press pack for download (pdf, 0,1 MB)

Press kit of our senior sponsor MDT-tex for download (pdf, 1,5 MB)