Olfactory Art Keller is honored to present Minimal Scents, a survey of works that engage with minimalism by some of the most innovative contemporary scent creators. Through decades of exploration, visual art and music have arrived at something close to a consensus about how to practice minimalism. In minimal art the spatial complexity, the unruly arrangement of objects in space that is characteristic for visual experiences, is drastically reduced, replaced by basic shapes and orderly arrangements. In minimal music the temporal structure is radically simplified, resulting in repetitive patterns and steady drones.

Scent creation, on the other hand, is an emerging artform with no agreed upon concept of minimalism. Minimal Scents showcases twenty different approaches to the seemingly intractable problem of stripping the adornments off smells, which are phenomenologically already so sparse that they have been called "single unitary experiences" (R.J. Stevenson) and "states of consciousness, having neither geometry nor articulate individuation" (W.G. Lycan). The works on display have little in common, with some aiming for conceptual minimalism and others for minimalist phenomenology.