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In June 2026, light artist James Turrell will unveil As Seen Below – The Dome, a monumental new Skyspace installation at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark. Measuring 16 meters high and 40 meters wide, the work marks the culmination of a decade-long vision—an architectural meditation where light, space, and consciousness merge into one seamless field of experience.
As with all of Turrell’s Skyspaces, the piece transforms light into sculpture, flooding the domed interior with slowly shifting gradients of color. A circular opening at the dome’s peak frames the sky above, turning natural light into an active, living material. At twilight, the transition between hues—soft pinks, spectral blues, muted golds—invites viewers into a state of stillness and heightened perception. For Turrell, the act of looking becomes the art itself. “With As Seen Below, I’m shaping the experience of seeing rather than offering an image,” he explains. “The architecture holds the sky close, so the viewer realizes that perception is the work.”
The installation also completes ARoS’s long-awaited architectural expansion, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The project includes terraced seating along the dome’s interior rim, a grassy exterior mound that integrates the structure into the landscape, and a new subterranean gallery and outdoor exhibition space.
Slated to open on June 19, 2026, just before the summer solstice, As Seen Below – The Dome will invite visitors into a dialogue with light and time, continuing Turrell’s lifelong pursuit of turning the sky into architecture—and perception into poetry.
