The Olfactive Gallery: Exploring the Objecthood of Smell
A conversation with Jessica Murphy (independent researcher) and Andreas Keller (Olfactory Art Keller)

Join us for a conversation between two pioneering scholars who are changing the way we experience art through our most evocative sense, smell. Andreas Keller and Jessica Murphy will share their experiments in olfactory design: how smells can invite new interpretations, provide sensorial context, and enhance aesthetic appreciation for the museumgoer or gallery visitor. Keller will focus on how he works with artists to include scents in their creations; the resulting work, he argues, prompts a slower, embodied way of interacting with art. Murphy will discuss her method of crafting museum tours that combine visual and olfactory elements, always starting with a critical question: for example, how might an eighteenth-century potpourri vessel have smelled? Theodora Brown (MA ’26) will moderate the conversation.

February 25, 2026 at 6pm

38 West 86th Street, BGC Lecture Hall