james turrell completes his largest-ever skyspace at ARoS aarhus art museum

"James Turrell completes the permanent installation of As Seen Below-The Dome, a Skyspace at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, ahead of its public opening on June 19th, 2026. The is the artist's largest Skyspace realized within a museum context and marks the final phase of the major expansion project of the institution, The Next Level. Measuring 16 meters in height and 40 meters in diameter, the work reframes the experience of looking, turning the sky into a material presence shaped by architecture, time, and light."

"'With As Seen Below I'm shaping the experience of seeing rather than delivering an image. The architecture holds the sky close, so you recognise that the act of looking is the work itself. Here light isn't description; it's the substance you stand within. In this Skyspace the day has weight, the evening has temperature, and the change belongs to you.'"

"For more than five decades, Turrell has built a practice around light and the proposition that it's not merely something we see, but something we inhabit. His Skyspaces, architectural environments punctured by a ceiling aperture that frames the open sky, are among his most widely known works. They cultivate attentiveness, slowing the visitor's body and senses down to meet the shifting conditions of natural light."

James Turrell completed As Seen Below-The Dome, a permanent Skyspace at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, opening to the public on June 19, 2026. The Skyspace measures 16 meters in height and 40 meters in diameter and is the artist's largest museum-based Skyspace, concluding the museum's The Next Level expansion. Visitors arrive via an underground, light-filled corridor and enter a vast domed chamber where calibrated lighting washes interior surfaces and subtly modulates perception of the sky through a central oculus. The installation frames the sky as a material presence shaped by architecture, time, and light and slows attention to changing natural conditions.

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