Opening: Residual Contact, at HGW Athens
Learn more: https://thegoldenpears.com/2026-residual-contact
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Residual Contact is a group exhibition presented by The Institute for Art and Olfaction and HGW std. This event is an immersive dialogue, bringing together contemporary visual artists and independent perfumers from Greece to explore the connection between image, material, atmosphere, and scent.
Following the Experimental Scent Summit that takes place earlier that same day, Residual Contact expands the conversation around contemporary olfactory culture and experimental creative practice.
Six perfumes are paired with the works of twelve artists, creating a series of encounters that move beyond traditional exhibition formats and into the realm of embodied perception. Rather than treating scent as a supplement to the artwork, the exhibition positions fragrance as an active artistic medium capable of shaping atmosphere, disrupting perception, and creating new relationships between bodies, objects, and space.
Installations, videos, paintings, sculptures, sound and scent invite visitors to navigate the space not only visually, but physically and emotionally. Residual Contact explores the invisible traces that scent and visual experience leave behind: memory, emotional residue, spatial awareness, intimacy, and transformation.
Residual Contact is on view June 9 to 13, 2026
Curated by: Ilias Loukopoulos and Dorina Kappatou
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