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Overview book: 20 years working with scents

Olfactory Art, Scent in Context

472 pages, 3KG, + 1500 Photos, 22 Scratch & Sniff images, 5 cm thick

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EXHIBITIONS / NEWS

collegeart-conference-nyCollege Art Association New York
101ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
13.02.2013 - 16.02.2013

SESSION: Olfactory Art
Saturday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

 

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With artists from Brazil, Belgium, USA, Germany, Finland, Scotland, Mexico, Italy and South Africa, the 2nd Creativity World Biennale brings interventions, artworks and installations to Rio de Janeiro. The event began in 2010 in Oklahoma and will be curated by Liana Brazil, founder of SuperUber, creative agency that works with the convergence of art, technology, architecture and design. The Biennale is open to the public for free from november 21st to 25th.
Peter De Cupere, olfactory artist, living in Belgium, presents his "Blind Smell Stick", ( www.blindsmellstick.com).

Peter De Cupere tested 3 of his prototype Blind Smell Sticks and one Blind Smell Touch (a glove that has the posibility to smell everything you touch) in Rio de Janeiro.

Visitors to the Biennale can try one of the prototypes in the exhibition space.

More info: www.criofestival.com

Blind Smell Stick in Rio de Janeiro by Peter De Cupere from Peter De Cupere on Vimeo.

Featured exhibitions

invitation-openstudios Visit the Studio & Olfactology Research Lab of Peter De Cupere

Sunday 09.09.2012

13 - 14h Professionals
14 - 19h Open Studios

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fragumcardamomi0924.09.2012 - 08.01.2013

CBK Drenthe in De Nieuwe Kolk - Assen- The Netherlands

Flower Fragum Cardamomi on show in the exhibition Nature Now.

Flower Fragum Cardamomi is the first scratch & sniff sculpture in the world, shown for the first time on the Creativity World Forum in Hasselt Belgium in 2011. The flower measures 9 m H!

In the exhibition Nature Now you can explore the smells by scratching and sniffing the sculpture.

 

 

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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Explore the smells of your city, environment or some location by just walking by and sniffing with the Blind Smell Stick

www.blindsmellstick.com

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hetgemakPREVIEW FUTURES
01.06.2012 - 17.06.2012

Preview from 1 June, 2012 and full exhibition to follow in te autumn of 2012
With work by: Peter de Cupere, Caro Verbeek, Jeroen Barendse (LUST), Philip Schuette, Wim Vriezen, Hans Ligteringen
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by Peter De Cupere

01.07.2012 - 07.10.2012

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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Brewery Flowers by Peter De Cupere


23.06.2012 - 31.10.2012

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Upcoming Exhibitions

nose-on1Interview with Peter De Cupere by Kornelija Cesonyte

View the whole interview on  page 86 on the online magazine www.lamuslenis.lt

Or click on the photo

 

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Scentedkisses01Scentedkisses09Scentedkisses03Scentedkisses04More than 400 visitors  of the event Lupercalia in Ghent-Belgium participated on the 'Scented Kisses Happening'. They got all 1 free limited edition lipstick to kiss the scented canvas. The canvas was perfumed with 27 erotic fragrances in combination with pheromones.How later in the evening people got more excited by the smells... Click on more!!!

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Ronny Van de Velde presents a miniature museum with works of contemporary artists.

 

 

Mini Olfactology Lab shows the way how Peter De Cupere experiments in his labo.
3 Flowers - and 1 tree sculpture are presented in the mini lab on scale 1:7
Visitors can explore the different scents of these scent sculptures.

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Click on read more to see the list of artists and photos of the mini Olfactology Lab

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Upcoming Exhibitions


cover-museum12.10.2013 - 02.02.2014

Museum to scale 1/7 is an initiative by Ronny Van de Velde which has been developed by the artist Wesley Meuris. In accordance with a firmly established postmodern tradition, the museum is at once subject and object of an intervention that operates as a mise en abîme – that is, the representation of an object using the object itself as a frame of reference. Museum to scale features more than a hundred miniature exhibition rooms at a scale of 1:7 that are devoted to Belgian artists and Belgian artistic movements.

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cover-museum15.03.2014 - 06.07.2014

  Museum to Scale 1/7 is a project initiated by renowned Belgian art collector and scholar Ronny Van de Velde and organized by The Baker Museum. Consisting of a collection of close to 70 diorama museum galleries devoted to Belgian artists and art movements, the installation recalls the 17th, 18th and 19th century Wunderkammern, the cabinets of curiosities/wonder, and is also conceived as homage to Marcel Duchamp and his boîte-en-valise and to Grandville’s illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels.

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No Valentine's Day for wimps ...
but a total spectacle of love for free thinkers

Wednesday 15.02.2012




Presentation of Peter De Cupere's
short movie 'Paris, Mon Amour' in the Bonbonnière room.
With 2 smell-happenings by Peter De Cupere
- 'Smell Me' and 'Sniff Me' Happening with the 'Smell Me & Sniff Me Perfume'
- 'Scented Kisses' Happening
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Upcoming Exhibitions

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lecture-cwf-peterdecupere11In his lecture "Olfactology Lab" Peter De Cupere talked about the possibilities how he as an artist interacts between nature and society.
The relationship between the use of scent as a creative aspect of his work and the references to scientific backgrounds and mental responses (based on the memory of the viewer's mind). As examples of his olfactory artworks he explains his tree - and flower works. He ended his lecture with his "Flower Fragum Cardamomi" which was exhibited during the whole Creativity World Forum 2011 event. November 16th 2011

News

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Exhibition: Goesting naar nog (Appetite for more)

25.11.2011 - 18.12.201

Curator: André van Hove

Location: Castle Le Paige, Nederrij 135, Herentals -  Belgium

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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01.10.2011 -  16.10.2011

Introduction opening: Flor Bex, Honorary Director Muhka

Vrijzinnig Ontmoetingscentrum Hasselt

Artists: Koen van den Broek, Peter De Cupere, Nancy Slangen, Gert De Clercq, Caroline Coolen,Ives Maes, Gert Robijns, Fred Eerdekens, Jan Carlier, Carlo Mistiaen, Christian Dotremont, Herman Maes, Tina Gilen, Marc Claes,...

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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Flower, a new smell-installation made for the Creativity World Forum

On show November 16th & 17th, 2011
Ethias Arena, Hasselt - Belgium

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH at 20:20 PM

Hendrik Baelskaai 12, OSTEND
The Pecha Kucha session is followed by a cocktail and networking.
Participation is free but registration is obligatory!

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Lectures

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Sound & Smell

 

26.06.2011
Hours: 10am to  4pm

Artists:
Aurore Dal Mas: Sound
Peter De Cupere: Smell

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Curated by Wim Waumans

26.06.2011 - summer 2011
PocketRoom, Antwerpen (B)


Group show: Peter De Cupere, Philippe Vandenberg, Katie Heck, Peter Rogiers, Guy Rombouts,Tinka Pittoors, Bart Baele, Carole Vanderlinden, Fik Van Gestel, Gery De Smet, Johan De Wilde, Joris Ghekiere,  Mario De Brabandere, Nadia Naveau,Philip Aguirre, Thé Van Bergen, Tom Poelmans, Walter Swennen, Werner Mannaers, Wouter Feyaerts

 

 

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Exhibition News

unautremonde200 "Un Autre Monde"
J.J. Grandville

Curated by Ronny Van De Velde

25.06.2011 - 11.09.2011

Félicien Rops museum
Namur - Belgium

Artists:
Marcel Broodthaers, César, Charlie Chaplin, Peter De Cupere, Dotremont, Doudelet, Fred Eerdekens, James Ensor, Jan Fabre, Frères Lumière, Goya, Méliès, Morris/Congo, On Kawara, Panamarenko, Redon, Starevich, Koen Theys, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Koen Van Mechelen, Angel Vergara

 

Drawings of Peter De Cupere in the exhibition

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17.03.2011 - 20.03.2011

Exhibition for a good charity. On the last day, all artworks auctioned for the benefit of the mucosal association, an organization dedicated to patients with cystic fibrosis.

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C-Mine Genk - Belgium
  April 2012 - April 2014

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Video of the performance




Jan Fabre invited several artists to integrate art into his dance labo Troubleyn.

Peter Cupere made the work 'Sweat'. Sweat is a performance where the sweat of 5 dancers was caught. They wear specially designed costumes that were made out of plastic and connected by tubes. Before the action, the artist made a separate dish for each dancer. The intention is to catch the sweat from the dancers and to distill it. The sweat will be sprayed on a wall of the dance lab and protected by a glass box. In the glass is a small hole where visitors can smell the sweat. The performance is shown by video in the glass tank. More info will follow soon. The performance is shown for a selective audience (200 people, no places available anymore).

Other artists who are invited to realize a new art integration are: Michael Borremans, Koen Van den Broek, Berlinde De Bruykere, Joep van Lieshout, Robert Devriendt, Johan van Geluwe, ... for the total list from the earlier art integrations and more info: www.troubleyn.be

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sick-madam1-72crossoverTHE ROYAL FLEMISH ACADEMY OF BELGIUM FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS , Brussels

Opening 11.12.2010 / 12h
13.12.2010 - 13.01.2011
 

Curator: Sven Vanderstichelen
Artists: Peter De Cupere, Kris Vleeschouwer, Angelo Vermeulen, Ben Dierckx, Wesley Meuris, Gert Aertsen

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Galerie Geukens & De Vil

Francis Alys – Steven Baelen – Ruben Bellinkx – Luk Berghe – Fred Bervoets – Michaël Borremans – Peter Buggenhout – David Claerbout – Christine Clinckx – Stijn Cole – Caroline Coolen – Leo Copers – Bert De Beul – Rik De Boe – Berlinde De Bruyckere – Thierry De Cordier – Peter De Cupere – Raoul De Keyser – Ronny Delrue – Wim Delvoye – Jan De Maesschalck – Johan De Wilde – Arpais Dubois – Jan Hillen – Gideon Kiefer – Thomas Lerooy – Valerie Mannaerts – Kris Martin – Wesley Meuris – Peter Morrens – Sofie Muller – Renato Nicolidi – Hans Op de Beeck – Panamarenko – Matthieu Ronsse – Walter Swennen – Ante Timmermans – Luc Tuymans – Guy Van Bossche – Koen Van den Broeck – Rinus Van de Velde – Patrick Van Caeckenberg – Jan Van Imschoot – Koen Van Mechelen – Jan Vanriet – Benoît van Innis – Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven – Marielou van Lierop – Angel Vergara – Pieter Vermeersch – Filip Vervaet – Cindy Wright – Dirk Zoete

Galerie Geukens & De Vil
Pourbusstraat 19 -  Antwerpen
www.geukensdevil.com

Exhibition News

One FREE edition for each visitor until October 31  2010 !!!

Watch the compilation video of the Smell Happening 'KISS NATURE'

October 21  2010


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smelldistributorThe Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam

Lecture and debat

Thursday September 23th 2010 at 1900h

Participating persons:

Peter de Cupere (kunstenaar)
Jim Drobnick (Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto)
Caro Verbeek (kunsthistoricus and curator)
Yolanda van Ede (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam)
Adam Tasi (Smartnose, Amsterdam)
Valentina Hulsman (kunstenaar)
Sue Corke (kunstenaar)
Circle of Senses (Aroma DJ/VJ).

More info: www.stedelijk.nl

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More info: www.pocketroom.be

Photos of the exhibition, click on read more

 

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09.06.2010 - 12.09.2010

Festival De Wereld van Witte de With
Witte de Withstraat en Museumpark, Rotterdam

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29.05.2010 - 31.10.2010

opening: 29.05.2010, 18.00
curator: Geert Verbeke

From 29.05.2010 until 31.10.2010 organizes the Verbeke Foundation an exhibition about green energy.

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For the 4 th time in a row, Art Brussels invites upcoming and established artists to create a site specific art work for the fair. The visitor will discover ephemeral and large scale interventions by promising artists, all working and living in Belgium 

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The attentive Art Brussels visitor will be rewarded by the discovery of a smell installation by Peter De Cupere. Behind an ordinary door, next to the busy media booths, the visitor enters into a completely different environment. Via an intimate long corridor covered with retro wall paper, the visitors steps into two different rooms; a bathroom and a living room which are both filled with its opposite hardly bearable smells. Living the experiences of the intense odors might generate an activation of lost memories as in Prousts’ Madeleine scene.

 

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19.06.2010 - 12.09.2010

Exhibition: Sun-Light010 Organised by Phidias vzw and 5-art

Open: 10:00h - 12:00h and 14:00h - 17:45h

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blackgreenhouseMuseum Dr. Guislain
From Memory. About knowing and forgetting
10/10/2009 - 02/05/2010

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The Same and The Other: humanism represented
26/09/2009 - 25/10/2009: Het Zelfde en het Andere, humanisme stilstaand verbeeld is een tentoonstelling met 30 Vlaamse kunstenaars van uitgesproken figuratieve kunst die vragen oproept over de mens in zijn dubbel-zinnigheden : vernieling/creativiteit; eros/thanatos; man/vrouw. . .

 

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bioart1bioart3An exhibition about bio art.

De Cupere presents 5 smell-installations.

Opening May 23th 2009 - 20.00h

Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium

 

Participating Artists: Peter De Cupere (B), Koen Vanmechelen (B), Philippe Vandenberg (B), Evelyne Wood (CH), Maarten vanden Eynde (B), Jef Faes (B), Idiots (NL), Desmond Morris (UK), Zbigniew Oksiuta (PL), Ingo Botho Reize (D), Tineke Schuurmans (NL), Ronald van der Meijs (NL), Maarten vanden Eynde (B), ...

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Exhibition organized by Kunstenlab DeventerAktuele Kunst Hengelo (AkkuH) and Kunstvereniging Diepenheim.
June 6 - September 1  2009 
Curator: Koen Bril

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Scratch and sniff drawings of realised artworks and concepts

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Soapscapes are cities and landscapes made out of soap. The react with the air by warmness and humidity and create little shiny cristals. Used fragrances are peppermint and grass

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Smell-installation with intensive peppermint smell. Visitors start to cry by entering the smell-installation

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1orangebulb22orangebulb_flower1A new flower based on the concept flowers 'Alambfleurics'.
The Orange Bulb Alambfleuric produces a typical orange fragrance, but has the quality of a perfume made of real flowers. The fragrance is more concentrated.

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Scented drawing: "Strawberry finger"
Curator: Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp.
190 paintings and prints of hands by Baldessari, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Michael Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Peter De Cupere, Raoul Dekeyser, Duchamp, Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jan Hoet, Asger Jorn, Kaspar König, Le Corbusier, Lichtenstein, Paul MacCarthy, Man Ray, Miró, Panamarenko, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Schütte, Richard Serra, Luc Tuymans, Uecker, Warhol, Erwin Wurm, ...

 

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curated by Hilde Teerlinck
Be-Part
Westerlaan 17 - Waregem (B)
11/11/2007 - 27/1/2008

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It is distilled out of nanoflowers which  are cultivated on the hair of the human armpit.

NanoLove is:
a nanofume (perfume on nano scale!)

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created with pheromones

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An exciting smell exhibition with scent-sculptures, scent-paintings, drawings, videos, ...
Website: www.kasteelbeauvoorde.be

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The Earthcar is still on show in the Verbeke Foundation

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Air Polluter is an interactive smell installation which allows the visitor to decide in how far he or she contributes to pollution of the air. By means of a control panel at the start of the installation, visitors can activate good as well as bad smells. This subdivision into two so called Smell Fields is based on the socially accepted appreciation of the various smells.


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Featured Artworks

 

spaghetti_house001A house made of 900 kg spaghetti !!!

Smell-installation Spaghetti House

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