Mission Statement

Olfactory Art Keller was a gallery operating from spring 2021 to fall 2025. It encouraged artists working in all mediums to experiment with scents and perfumers to create scents as objects of aesthetic experience by providing a dedicated exhibition space for olfactory art in Manhattan. Our exhibitions aimed to engage and educate the public about the potential and diversity of scent as an artistic medium. By presenting scented objects, olfactory experiences, and smell performances as well as works of multisensory art in which odor is essential, we hoped to normalize the use of scents in contemporary art. Our ultimate goal was to preserve olfactory aesthetic experiences in our visuocentric digital world. 

Olfactory Art Keller was owned and operated by Andreas Keller. Andreas, the author of Philosophy of Olfactory Perception, is an academic with PhDs in Neuroscience and Philosophy who is interested in the differences between seeing and smelling. He supports artists using odors and perfumers creating art. Watch Andreas talk at the Olfactory Art Symposium organized by IAO and Smell it! in July 2021 about the challenges of a gallery working with olfactory art: Andreas Keller at Olfactory Art Symposium on Vimeo. Watch Saskia Wilson-Brown interview Andreas Keller here: Meet A Nose: Andreas Keller on Vimeo

Gallery

Olfactory Art Keller was located at 25A Henry Street, in what artnet news called "Manhattan's Hottest New Gallery Hub" in a former barber shop.

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