Sensoria Art Edition 01
October 2025. An entire month devoted to art. Quiet. Powerful. Inspiring.
At Sensoria Dolomites, October is more than just an autumn month – it’s a space for experiences. We’re dedicating it to art and its ability to move people, open up fresh perspectives, and create new connections
Sensoria Art Edition 01 is our invitation to immerse yourself in a world that inspires you to pause for a moment and marvel. The first edition will be opened by two extraordinary South Tyrolean artists: Aron Demetz and Peter Senoner. Art that you not only experience visually, but can feel.
You can enjoy the works of both artists at Sensoria Dolomites from June to early November 2025.
What awaits you during the Sensoria Art Edition 01
The highlight:
Sensoria Art Edition 01 Days 19.10. – 23.10.2025
October has a special meaning for Lea, your host at Sensoria Dolomites. It’s the month that she began a new stage of her life in South Tyrol – full of courage, change, and meaningful decisions. And she feels it anew every year: October is a peaceful new beginning, profound and bursting with fresh energy.
We’ve dedicated the Sensoria Art Edition 01 Days – the heart of the Sensoria Art Edition 01 – to that exact feeling. Four days devoted entirely to the creative power of art. Accessible to everyone – regardless of experience or prior knowledge.
The programme
Sunday
Arrive and settle in. The meet & greet with Aron Demetz and Peter Senoner is a time to come together, start conversations, and make connections.
Monday
An exclusive visit to the studio of Aron Demetz – an artist who works with wood and fire to create sculptures that have a profound impact. Today, you have the opportunity to become an artist for a day. Creating together moves you closer to the unknown: Your ideas transform into visible forms, experiences become stories. Working with wood, drawing, and symbolism inspires a creative space that changes perspectives and gives you a whole new experience of collaborative endeavour.
Tuesday
At the Artistic Drawing Experience, you can experience art in dialogue with South Tyrolean artist Peter Senoner. Together, you’ll create your own personal, unique work of art – inspired by nature, your intuition, and spontaneous impulses. The artist will guide you in developing your artistic signature through intuitive drawing and painting. In a mindful environment, space is made for creativity, sensory experiences, and personal expression.
Wednesday
An Art Dinner with added inspiration. Cuisine meets art, artists meet guests, and conversations meet new perspectives.
Thursday
You depart – full of lasting impressions and artistic energy.
And between the highlights? Time for yourself.
Soak up the peace, comfort, and extraordinary atmosphere of our hotel. Treat yourself to spa moments, hiking bliss, or an hour by the fire with a glass of fine wine.
The Sensoria Art Edition 01 Days are no classic art trip. They’re a moving, inspiring experience that invites you to slow down and take your time. And perhaps they’ll transform October into a peaceful new beginning for you, too.
Atmospheric evenings where art and music come together in sensory harmony and create special moments.
On curated tours through the hotel, you’ll discover the works of Aron Demetz and Peter Senoner, accompanied by insights into their thoughts and feelings.
Personal encounters with the two artists, a direct insight into their creative processes – up close, authentic, moving.
Bookable on request
Exclusive art visits and exhibitions accompanied by the artists
Personal encounters in a creative environment, complemented by curated exhibition visits and exclusive insights behind the scenes of renowned museums. We can also arrange an optional helicopter flight to the LUMEN Museum for Mountain Photography – an unforgettable experience that combines art, panoramas, and personal guiding.
Bookable on request
Materiality and metamorphosis: the two artists
In contemporary sculpture, Aron Demetz and Peter Senoner offer two complementary perspectives on the human figure and its transformations in the charged space where nature, technology, and identity intersect. Both artists, rooted in the rich sculptural tradition of South Tyrol, consciously transcend the boundaries of classical craftsmanship in order to open up new narrative and aesthetic spaces.
Aron Demetz – transformation and transience
Aron Demetz (born in 1972 in Sterzing, South Tyrol) is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary sculpture. Now at home in Ortisei in Val Gardena/Gröden, he draws on a profound knowledge of traditional woodcarving while embracing an experimental approach to material and form. Following his training at the art school in Selva, he studied sculpture under Professor Christian Höpfner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.
Demetz is not concerned with form alone, but also with transformation – in both physical and conceptual terms. His figures become vessels for exploring questions of vulnerability, time, and the human impact on natural processes. His works bring organic materials such as wood into dialogue with resin, plaster, or bronze, shaped in turn by burning, oxidation, or fungal growth – natural processes that Demetz chooses not to control, but to guide. In this way, the creative process itself becomes part of the work’s essence.
His international breakthrough came in 2009 with his participation in the 53rd Venice Biennale. Today, his sculptures can be found in renowned museums and collections, such as the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, the Museo Omero in Ancona, and the Beelden aan Zee in The Hague. Alongside his artistic work, he was formerly a professor of sculpture at the academies in Carrara and Venice and has been the director of the Summeracademy Gardena in Ortisei since 2018.
Peter Senoner – hybridity and digital imagination
Peter Senoner (born in 1970 in Bolzano, South Tyrol) has developed artistic expression in the place where the body, technology, and digital imagination intersect. Now based in Klausen, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Professor Asta Gröting. Numerous international studio residencies – including in New York, Tokyo, Vienna, Berlin, and Detroit – have shaped his global outlook and aesthetic language.
Senoner creates sculptures and drawings that explore post-human corporealities. His hybrid figures – part human, part machine, part beings from an as-yet-unknown cosmos – pose questions about identity, gender, reproduction, and memory, combining traditional materials such as wood and bronze with digital techniques like 3D scanning and CNC milling. The resulting forms are both alien and familiar – unsettling, captivating, and intellectually provocative.
Exhibitions in institutions such as the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, the Lentos Art Museum in Linz, and the Haus der Kunst in Munich attest to the relevance of his work. As an educator, he has worked at universities in Tokyo, Innsbruck, Rosenheim, and Bolzano, where he continues to shape the discourse on the future of the body and spatial experience.