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Duft – a journey of dis­covery fol­low­ing your nose

In 2014, the annual exhi­bi­tion at the Palmengarten of the City of Frank­furt am Main focused on the natu­ral and cul­tur­al as­pects of scent. In col­labo­ra­tion with bota­nists, biolo­gists and cul­tur­al scien­tists, we created the con­tent of the exhi­bi­tion in the light-flooded gal­lery of the Palmen­haus and made it tan­gible to the senses. 

Visitors were able to im­merse them­selves com­pletely in the world of scents, move through a fra­grant green jungle, find them­selves in the middle of a per­fume labora­tory, stroll through graphic scent gardens or ex­peri­ence macro­scopi­cally en­larged phe­nom­ena – such as the fra­grant court­ship of partners in the in­sect world.

The objects and texts in the exhi­bi­tion were the­mati­cally in­corpo­rated into the exhi­bi­tion archi­tec­ture and in­vited visi­tors to dis­cover the vari­ous facets of scents. Over­sized flowers, di­verse in­sects, his­tori­cal build­ings, tradi­tional distil­lation ap­para­tuses and per­fum­ers at work were in­corpo­rated into the exhi­bi­tion archi­tec­ture as sil­hou­ettes. The spatial motifs were com­ple­mented and par­tially over­grown by opu­lent veg­eta­tion from the Palmen­garten. 

Along, between and within the exhi­bi­tion archi­tec­ture, we in­stalled count­less “scent stations” with living scented plants, essential oils, fruit bowls, seeds and also arti­fi­cial aromas that in­vited visi­tors to catch a whiff. These “scent stations” formed a large, walk-in “scent organ”. 

In order not to lose track of one’s own senses with­in the world of scents, the numer­ous scent ex­peri­ences were color-coded and could thus be as­signed to one of the 17 dif­fer­ent scent notes.

The exhibition was made pos­sible in part by a gen­er­ous dona­tion of ma­terials in the form of straw-fiber panels from NovoFibre. This panel ma­terial, from which the sil­hou­ette graphics were carved, could be com­pletely de­com­posed after the exhi­bi­tion and used as humus for new plant­ings in the Palmengarten Frankfurt.

Services

Concept, Design, Project Management, Realisation

In collaboration with

Tilman Richter

Project Partners

Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff, NovoFibre, Parfums Lubin, GWH Räume zum Leben, Farina, Reformhaus Freya and Institut français, Frankfurt am Main.

Client

Palmengarten Frankfurt

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Image:

Tim Klausing

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SCK – Studio for… de­votes itself with great cu­ri­os­ity to vari­ous ques­tions and de­vel­ops elabo­rate con­cepts for com­mu­ni­ca­ting science, designs unique exhi­bits and creates un­con­ven­tional furni­ture and ob­jects be­yond any in­dus­trial norm. The studio works in close co-op­era­tion with a wide range of proj­ect part­ners and clients. It designs and man­ages a wide range of tasks in vari­ous con­stel­la­tions. From ex­hi­bi­tion design to furni­ture and ob­ject design to inter­active in­stal­la­tions.

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