Grün / Grün / Grün

Smellscape / Duftinstallation – Salotto, Vienna

Der Künstler Paul Divjak hat den zarten Duft eines blühenden Orangenhains durch die New Yorker Neue Galerie wehen lassen. Er hat internationale Museen in mittelalterlich stinkende Kloaken verwandelt und zuletzt auf Einladung der Wiener Achse den Pratersauna Art Space zu einem synthetischen Erdbeerland gemacht.

Exklusiv für den Salotto Vienna destillierte und komponierte Divjak nun ein olfaktorisches Naturlandschaftsbild und holt Wald und Wiese, Hochnebel und Moos nach Aspern Seestadt.

// The artist Paul Divjak already let the soft smell of a blooming orange grove through the Neue Galerie New York. He turned international museums into stinky medieval cesspits and recently he was invited by Wiener Achse to make the Art Space in Pratersauna smell like a strawberry land.

Exclusively for Salotto Vienna Divjak was distilling and composing an olfactory natural landscape. He brings wood and lawn, high fog and dosh to Aspern Seestadt.

Salotto Vienna

2008Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Trust Room

by Jeanette Müller – Muscat, Oman (SoL Global Forum)

©Jeanette Müller

For this project at the intersection of applied sociopolitical utopia and conceptual art I developed an all natural scent diffused in a huge tent, placed in front of the Hilton, Muscat.

The aim was to create an overall feel good-atmosphere, which effects calmness, strength and clarity and helps the international participants to get into a grounded and confident mood before heading to their presentations, conference panels and discussions.

Jeanette Müller / Trust Room

2019Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Change Was Our Only Chance

by Time´s up

Setup: “Change Was Our Only Chance” by Time´s Up

For this project by the artists´collective Time´s Up Paul Divjak was invited to develop an olfactory scenographic approach and create an experimental, dystopian scentscape. The result was an irritating bouquet of a futuristic harbor breeze, defined by muddy waters, wet wooden notes, and sweet rotten Asian flowers. A subtile but smelly trip to the year 2047. [Phase 1 of an experiment / collaborative work in progress]

AIL – Angewandte Innovation Lab – Franz-Josefs-Kai 3 1010 Wien, Vienna

02.09.2019 - 27.09.2019

In these times of fundamental change, this mix of installation and process wants to make you “want for the future”. The future perspective into the present makes it clear that the future for us (humans) will only be experienced if we introduce changes today.

An possible future is sensually experienced through a physical narrative, a form of immersive environment, explored in the enveloping spatial arrangement, in the here and now, in a curious and playful process.

Possible futures fuel passion to boldly explore and popularize the complexity of our time. Possible futures are demystified and stripped of anxiety. Uncertain future scenarios are no longer terrifying, because in that future we see that people in the past had understood: “Change our our only chance.”

We look forward to working with the lecturers, researchers and students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Applied Innovation Laboratory AIL in this project of exhibition and discussion, workshop and exploration.

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2016Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Im Prater blüh´n …

Duftinstallation / Smellscape

“Im Prater blüh´n wieder die Bäume”, MuseumQuartier

IM PRATER BLÜH´N WIEDER DIE BÄUME, Smellscape / scent installation, 2016
(In Prater the trees are blossoming again)

A project commissioned for Wir-sind-Wien-Festival
Public Space, Vienna – in cooperation with: Kunst Haus Wien / Museum Hundertwasser, Historical Museum of Vienna, Museums Quarter Vienna, The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art.

With „In Prater the trees are blossoming again “ Paul Divjak is focusing on the diversity of urban smell and the manipulation of our olfactory surroundings. Setting up temporary smellscapes (olfactory interventions) the artist is transferring odours of famous Vienna Prater (the Emperor´s former hunting grounds) into the very city center, and in front of several museums. The aroma of musty earth, woods, lime blossoms and lilac is to be experienced at urban locations, which usually are defined by the lack of any green.The audience is such invited into the realm of the sense of smell and to reflect everyday perceptions.
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2016Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Memories Of Water

MoE - Museum Of Emptiness, St.Gallen

“Memories Of Water”, Molekül-Installation

„Heute besteht kaum Zweifel daran, dass die intuitive Vorstellung vom leeren Raum als statischem, ereignislosem Schauplatz vollkommen falsch ist. Infolge der Quantenschärfe ist der leere Raum ein Tummelplatz turbulenter Quantenaktivitäten.“
Brian Greene (Der Stoff aus dem der Kosmos ist)

Es gibt Stimmen, die sagen, Wasser könne verschiedene Strukturen annehmen, es würde auf Umgebungseinflüsse und gar Emotionen reagieren, es hätte ein Gedächtnis und könne Information speichern. Andere wiederum sind davon überzeugt, bei Wasser handle es sich einfach um eine chemische Verbindung, die eine Formel habe: H20 … — mehr —