Camilla Nicklaus-Maurer

olFACTORY

March 25 to April 17, 2021

olFACTORY, an immersive multisensory experience by Camilla Nicklaus-Maurer, will be presented from March 25 to April 17 2021 at Olfactory Art Keller. It is Nicklaus-Maurer's first solo exhibition in New York. A tribute to Andy Warhol's conception of perfume as a way of taking up more space, olFACTORY takes up the gallery space as a smell that contrasts brash, cold, silver metal with soft, creamy, sweet banana. The smell's metalic aspects are echoed by the tin foil that cover the gallery's wall as they covered the walls of Warhol's Silver Factory.

Visitors will experience olFACTORY alone or in small groups in the darkened gallery where their focus will be drawn to the smell and the low-light visual experience, experiencing an escape into a smell-filled cave in the heart of New York City. The experience will be complemented by the odor-induced associations and memories in the visitors. While Warhol's "Permanent Smell Collection" remains unsmelled in the archives of Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum, olFACTORY unfolds the full power of the past as only olfactory art can.  

Camilla Nicklaus-Maurer was born at the foot of the Bavarian Alps, where she still lives and works. Since graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich where she studied sculpture, she is working on her dissertation about olfactory art. Nicklaus-Maurer has been using smells, often side-specific and derived from nature, in her practice for over a decade. She has exhibited extensively throughout Germany and internationally, including her solo exhibition Dig in! Scent and Art at the KVD gallery in Dachau in 2016.

olFACTORY has been reviewed in NEZ, The Olfactory Magazine, by Clara Muller.