Schering Stiftung

Exhibition 

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Ausstellungsansicht

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Ausstellungsansicht

Ausstellungsansicht
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Ausstellungsansicht

Ausstellungsansicht
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Ausstellungsansicht

Ausstellungsansicht
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Anna Virnich

Hyperdrüse

Anna Virnich

Hyperdrüse

Duration:

September 14 – November 25, 2019

Exhibition opening:

Friday, 13. September 2019, 6–9 p.m.

Opening hours:

Thursday to Monday, 1–7 p.m.

Venue:

Schering Stiftung
Unter den Linden 32–34
10117 Berlin


A floor made of wax, holding clay bowls filled with aromatic oils and surrounded by iridescent walls: In her exhibition, “Hyperdrüse,” the Berlin-based artist Anna Virnich creates a space that is saturated with shimmering colors and a complex choreography of smells. The latter has been developed in cooperation with the collective Scent Club Berlin on the basis of essential oils that have been enriched with synthetic molecules. This collaboration resulted in two complementary smell compositions, whose individual components overlap within the space so that it is almost impossible to clearly identify the individual aromas.

And yet it is possible to detect differences: While one composition emits seductive fragrances that may be experienced as warm and perhaps sticky, the second odor could be described as intrusive, bitter, metallic, even sharp. But what are verbal descriptions when it comes to smells? As justly noted by the psychologist Bettina Pause in her contribution to the accompanying publication, it is almost impossible to predict what smell a certain molecule evokes in humans. On the contrary, smelling is a thoroughly subjective experience, with the same odor triggering different emotions in different people.

“A smell is a slightly repelling reminder that we exist on Earth. A place where everything is made of the same stuff. You might not notice an atmosphere before it is disturbed and it makes itself felt, it vibrates and communicates, air moves, sends signals, matter changes, entries and exits link up, metabolism happens, substances circulate. Smell marks a constant transition. It is a weird intimacy with all things when the environment manifests as interiority. A smell is the feel of breath, a quasi-linguistic touch of the world.” This is what the art historian Baptist Ohrtmann wrote about Anna Virnich’s recent work “Warm Milky Acid, Silver Slip” (2018), thus giving voice to key ideas that also undergird the present exhibition.

“Hyperdrüse” is a fantastic landscape traversed by few predefined paths. The artist has put the functional structures of the Schering Stiftung’s Project Space in a state of transformation. As a result of artistic interventions that appear ecstatic and parasitic, the space turns into an environment that poses a sensory challenge to visitors. The exhibition therefore is also an aesthetic engagement with the conditions provided by a specific space that is re-calibrated both olfactorily and materially.

The exhibition is accompanied by a dialogue between art and science: It will be accompanied by an artist’s publication with brief texts by Bettina Pause, smell researcher and professor for biological psychology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Pause has investigated the implicit influence of smell perception on human behavior in numerous studies.

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Olfactory guided tour with Scent Club Berlin

Workshop — November 18, 2019

Scent Club Berlin invites you to dive into the olfactory dimensions of Anna Virnich's exhibition "Hyperdrüse".

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Lecture on smell research

Lecture — November 06, 2019

In her lecture “Smells of this World – molecules to perception,” Helene Loos will talk about the molecular principles of olfaction and the physiological effects of odors.

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Olfactory guided tours with Scent Club Berlin

Workshop — October 19, 2019

Scent Club Berlin invites you to dive into the olfactory dimensions of Anna Virnich's exhibition "Hyperdrüse".

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Gallery

Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse. Exhibition opening at Schering Stiftung on September 13, 2019.
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Exhibition Opening

Anna Virnich: Hyperdrüse

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Press 

Smell is a jumble of contradictions. It is a form of communication, and yet impossible to articulate. It is both concrete and abstract, and it is for these reasons that artist Anna Virnich is fascinated by it. In her installations, the Berlin-based artist uses materials that exude natural aromas and odours (think exotic plants, beeswax, oils), thus filling her exhibition spaces with familiar and beguiling scents. The experience is multi-sensory and intoxicating.

Sleek Magazine Online: “10 under the radar shows to catch at Berlin Art Week 2019”, September 11, 2019, www.sleek-mag.com

Partners 

The exhibition takes place in cooperation with Berlin Art Week and with kind support of Scent Club Berlin.

Scent Club Berlin
Berlin Art Week

The artist 

Anna Virnich (*1984) graduated in 2013 from HfBK
Braunschweig, Germany. She has staged solo exhibitions among others at Drei, Cologne; Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City; Kunstverein Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Städtische Galerie, Remscheid; Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf has has contributed to exhibitions at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; Centre d'Art Contemporaine Chanot, Clamart, France and Schmela Haus, Düsseldorf a.o. Anna Virnich lives and works in Berlin.

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