James Turrell, a pioneering member of the Light and Space movement, has announced an ambitious new work set to open at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark on June 19, 2026. The work, titled As Seen Below — The Dome, is part of Turrell’s famous series of “Skyspace” installations, which consist of enclosed spaces containing apertures opening to the sky and natural elements. The new installation is part of the museum’s 10-year expansion project, and will become the largest “Skyspace” installed in a museum.
Measuring approximately 50 feet in height and 130 feet in diameter, As Seen Below – The Dome invites visitors through a subterranean, light-filled corridor that opens into a vast domed chamber. The installation will feature an oculus at the center of its dome framing the open sky, with timed light sequences that will transform the space at sunrise and sunset.
“With As Seen Below, I shape the very experience of seeing, rather than simply delivering an image,” Turrell said in a statement. “The architecture brings the sky close, so you recognise that the act of looking is itself the work.”
In a statement, Rebecca Matthews, director of ARoS, described the new “Skyspace” as “an extraordinary work that invites visitors to slow down, lift their gaze and experience light, time, and space in deeply moving ways.”
Turrell, now 82, created the first “Skyspace” in 1974, following earlier experiments in controlling and shaping light within architectural space. Turrell has created more than 85 “Skyspaces” around the world.
The opening of As Seen Below will follow the opening of the ARoS’s Salling Gallery, an underground exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art commissions. The museum will also debut a new permanent outdoor art area.
