For Artist Insights, our new audio interview series exploring the evolving field of sensory art through the perspectives of artists, we reached out to Art Senses 2026 Mentorship Programme applicants who received special recognition for their project proposals. Guided by this year’s programme theme, Sensing the Invisible, we invited Philip Vermeulen to reflect on the following question:
How can art reveal the invisible architecture of the senses?
This question arises from our interest in how artists translate imperceptible phenomena into sensory experiences, engaging with forces, systems, and conditions that typically evade human perception, and seeking new ways to render them accessible. For more on this topic, read our feature, Learning from Artists: How to Sense the Imperceptible.
Philip Vermeulen is a Dutch artist who explores the fundamentals of human perception. His installations are created to be experienced with the whole body, while challenging the physicality of light, sound, movement, and vibrations.
Project by Therme Art
Art Senses is created by Therme Art, an international cultural initiative advancing Therme Group’s mission to promote wellbeing. In close collaboration with Therme Group, whose expertise in innovative environments and wellbeing infrastructures informs the programme’s vision, Therme Art supports and develops artistic and cultural experiences that generate positive social impact.
In addition to funding, mentorship, visibility, technical resources and support, Therme Art offers the possibility for projects developed within Art Senses to be realised permanently at Therme Group’s facilities worldwide, extending the artistic dialogue from the studio and exhibition context into lived, public environments that embody the programme’s curatorial aims.
