Therme Art

02/11/2026

Emphasising the body’s multisensory complexity, sensory art expands our understanding of what an art encounter can be. To explore this through artists’ own voices, we invited Art Senses 2026 applicants whose proposals earned special recognition to share their perspectives. Here, Sofia Boarino responds to the following question:

How can sensory art and neuroaesthetics create environments that support different sensory needs?

Sofia Boarino is an architect, researcher, and sound artist exploring the relationships between sound, light, space, and perception. Her work investigates how invisible physical phenomena shape bodily experience and environmental awareness.

Discover more at artsenses.art (link in bio).

30/10/2026

28/10/2026

For our single-question interview series exploring the evolving field of sensory art through the perspectives of artists, we reached out to Art Senses 2026 Mentorship Programme applicants whose project proposals earned special recognition. Exploring how an expanded approach to the senses can make art more accessible, we asked Bao Rong:

What can embodied interaction with art reveal about our senses and sensory differences?

Bao Rong is a London-based artist whose practice examines vulnerability, care, and control. Through tactile and spatial works, she transforms sensory experiences into a means of encountering the fragile threshold between protection and constraint.

Discover more at artsenses.art (link in bio).

26/10/2026

The third part of our ‘Learning from Artists’ series explores the potential of sensory art practices to address a broad spectrum of sensory experiences. This capacity challenges ocularcentric and ableist conventions surrounding the presentation of and engagement with art.

Featured works by Bao Rong, Vincent Martial, and Sofia Boarino⁠, artists whose applications to the Art Senses open call earned special recognition⁠, offer a glimpse of the many ways sensory art can expand our understanding of what an art encounter can be.

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03/09/2026

As the Art Senses 2026 Mentorship Programme unfolds, mentee Karola Braga documents the development of her winning project, Bloom of the Night, from early visualisations to recent developments.

In the second video of the series, Braga traces the progress that emerged through experimentation, conversations with experts, and the guidance of her mentors, A.A.Murakami.

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03/08/2026

Artists of the Future⁠—a youth-focused community arts platform developed by Therme Art⁠—has recently unveiled a vibrant public art installation at the future Therme Manchester site, the UK’s first urban wellbeing resort at TraffordCity, set to open in late 2028.

Launched in partnership with Therme Manchester and Gorse Hill Studios, the project invited young people across Salford and Trafford to respond to themes at the heart of Therme’s global ethos⁠—nature, water, fun, and wellbeing⁠—through drawing workshops and a competition. The 22 winning artworks now transform the construction hoardings at the future Therme Manchester site into a vibrant celebration of local creativity, with one winner also receiving a family trip to Therme Bucharest.

Watch the video to learn more about the project. If in Manchester, visit the installation at the corner of Barton Dock Road and Phoenix Way.

29/07/2026

Bringing together the voices of Art Senses 2026 applicants whose proposals earned special recognition, we highlight the ways in which sensory art creates space for humans to become more attentive to multispecies interdependence. For this series of single-question interviews, we asked Jamie Pazmiño:‍

What kind of future does sensory art attuned to more-than-human perspectives imagine?

Jamie Pazmiño is an Ecuadorian visual artist and researcher based in London. With a foundation in philosophy and visual arts, her work engages with ecology, decolonial thinking, and cultural memory through collaborative and community-rooted projects.

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27/07/2026

Sensory art practices increasingly situate humans within complex networks of interdependent living beings, environmental forces, and invisible processes. Exploring these currents through the artists’ own voices, we invited Art Senses 2026 applicants whose proposals earned special recognition to share their views. In this edition of Artist Insights, Yussef Agbo-Ola answers the question:

How can sensory art reimagine our relationship with the natural world?

Yussef Agbo-Ola is an artist and medicinal architect living between London, Ibadan, and the Amazon Forest. His multidisciplinary practice interprets natural energy systems through interactive experiments, exploring connections across sensory environments.

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23/07/2026

For Artist Insights, our single-question interview series exploring sensory art through the perspectives of artists, we reached out to Art Senses 2026 Mentorship Programme applicants whose project proposals earned special recognition. Attuning our senses to the more-than-human world, we invited Marta Djourina to reflect on the question:‍

What forms of knowledge emerge through collaboration with non-human agents?

Marta Djourina is a Berlin-based Bulgarian artist whose practice investigates how invisible forces can become visible through a**logue photographic processes. She works with non-human agents, treating them as active collaborators rather than subjects.

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21/07/2026

The second part of our ‘Learning from Artists’ series explores sensory art practices that shift from human-centred to more-than-human perspectives. Highlighting works of the Art Senses open call applicants who earned special recognition, we look at how sensory experiences can cultivate new ways of relating to diverse living forms and invisible, life-sustaining ecological systems.

Works by Yussef Agbo-Ola, Jamie Pazmiño, Mia Milgrom, Cadine Navarro and Timo Kahlen invite us to listen more carefully, to slow down, and to attend to invisible or neglected relationships within living networks of mutual dependence.

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