BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Rommé is an olfactory artist, curator, and researcher based in Paris. Born in Moscow in 1988, she has focused on olfactory art since 2017, creating immersive installations and interactive objects that explore embodiment, memory, and social interaction through scent and materiality. She also works under the name Shtormit.
Since 2015, Rommé has also engaged in institutional critique and text-based art, investigating the relationship between perception, language, and experience. Her work has been shaped by numerous international residencies, including La Cité internationale des Arts (Paris, 2017 & 2019), ACME (London, 2020–21), AIR Sculpture Quadrennial (Riga, 2021–24), 59 Rivoli (Paris, 2022–23), and Sea Art House (Varna, 2024).
Rommé's works have been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Tretyakov Gallery, Multimedia Art Museum, Winzavod, the State Literary Museum, the Sidur Museum, la Cité Internationale des Arts, ACME, 59 Rivoli, ReBonkers, and Gallerie delle Prigioni.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
My work draws on omens, astrological phenomena, and ancient belief systems – not as folklore, but as alternative forms of knowledge that reflect the fragility of human perception.
My artistic process incorporates alchemical gestures: herbal infusions, mineral compounds, tarot archetypes, and antique objects from the 18th and 19th centuries. These materials, charged with memory, become mythological artefacts – silent witnesses carrying invisible traces of their past.
My practice resembles a cabinet de curiosités, where relics and sensorial experiences coexist, questioning the boundary between the visible and the felt. Since 2017, my olfactory installations have explored existential themes – death, desire, memory, loss. Through scent and texture, I compose immersive constellations that awaken bodily memory and dissolve the line between observation and participation.
The viewer becomes an active participant, their associations completing the work. In this fragile dialogue between object and emotion, I seek to restore wonder – an ancient form of knowledge that connects magic, matter, and memory.
Foto by Victoria de Rocco
MEMBERSHIP
2024 La maison des artistes, Paris
2022 59 Rivoli, Paris
2020 100 SCE, Paris
2012 Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
2024 Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2018 Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso
2015 The State Literary Museum, Moscow