ByLeslie Katz,
Senior Contributor.
Artist James Turrell, known for his visionary work exploring light’s influence on consciousness and perception, is preparing to unveil the biggest installment in his Skyspace public-art series shown yet in a museum context.
“As Seen Below - The Dome,” described as a "monumental work that invites you to look up at the sky and into yourself,” will open in June 2026 at the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, just in time for the summer solstice. The installation features a vast domed hall where Turrell’s carefully calibrated light bathes visitors in shifting colors throughout the day as they peer upward toward the sky through an opening that merges art and the natural world, blurring the boundary between natural and artificial light.
“With ‘As Seen Below’ I shape the very experience of seeing, rather than simply delivering an image,” the California artist said in a statement. “The architecture brings the sky close, so you recognize that the very act of looking is the work itself.”
