In June 2026, American artist James Turrell is set to open his latest project ‘As Seen Below – The Dome’, a landmark new Skyspace at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark. Set to be the largest Skyspace ever realised within a museum context, measuring 16 metres high and 40 metres in diameter, the permanent installation forms the culmination of the museum’s decade-long expansion project.
Turrell’s Skyspaces are acclaimed architectural chambers designed around a simple but transformative gesture: an opening to the sky. When experiencing ‘As Seen Below’, visitors enter through a subterranean corridor before arriving inside a vast domed space where carefully calibrated lighting alters the perception of the sky above. Through subtle shifts in colour, light and atmosphere, the work reveals how vision is shaped not only by what we see, but by the conditions surrounding perception itself. Turrell said in a statement. “The architecture holds the sky close, so you recognize that the act of looking is the work itself. Here, light isn’t description, it’s the substance you stand within.”
Turrell describes the project as his “most ambitious Skyspace to date,” and marks the artist’s 100th Skyspace globally. Drawing inspiration from ancient hypaethral architecture such as the Pantheon in Rome, the dome transforms the sky into an immersive material, a living canvas shaped by time, weather and light. ‘As Seen Below’ choreographs light and architecture to deliver a sensory experience, inviting visitors to slow down and reconsider their relationship to the environment, the cosmos and themselves.
