{"id":9528,"date":"2026-06-19T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:07:32","slug":"james-turrell-creates-subterranean-skyspace-in-aarhus-that-holds-the-sky-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/james-turrell-creates-subterranean-skyspace-in-aarhus-that-holds-the-sky-close\/","title":{"rendered":"James Turrell creates subterranean Skyspace in Aarhus that “holds the sky close”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American artist James Turrell<\/a> has created As Seen Below, a 40-metre-wide Skyspace, for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus<\/a>, Denmark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening today, the domed extension realised\u00a0in collaboration with Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen<\/a>, is an immersive subterranean space washed in monochromatic colours.<\/p>\n

A six-metre-wide central aperture sits at the dome’s apex to frame views of the shifting sky above.<\/p>\n

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James Turrell has created a 40-metre-wide Skyspace for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“In As Seen Below, I’m shaping the experience of seeing rather than delivering an image,” the artist explained.<\/p>\n

“The architecture holds the sky close, so you recognize that the act of looking is the work itself.”<\/p>\n

“Here, light isn’t description, it’s the substance you stand within,” he added.<\/p>\n

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It sits beside the museum’s original building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The installation’s opening marks the completion of the museum’s wider 4,000-square-metre expansion led by Schmidt Hammer Lassen<\/a>, for which Turrell’s Skyspace is the “centrepiece”.<\/p>\n

As Seen Below is the artist’s 100th Skyspace installation and, according to the museum, his most ambitious one yet.<\/p>\n

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A six-metre-wide aperture frames views of the sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The installation connects to the main museum building both above and below ground via a new outdoor exhibition space and subterranean corridor respectively.<\/p>\n

Above ground, the structure emerges from the museum’s park as a grass-covered mound.<\/p>\n

Its volume is topped with a 100-square-metre operable lid that allows the oculus to be closed and double as a lighting system.<\/p>\n

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Its interior is washed in monochromatic colours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ground level access to the space is provided by an arched concrete opening that carves into the structure.<\/p>\n

Inside, the 16-metre-tall dome is centred around a sweeping open space, which is entered through gaps in a secondary concrete structure that provides stepped seating.<\/p>\n

The interior has been finished with a grey-toned material palette of raw concrete and brick paving, which slopes down to a stone-covered drainage area at the structure’s centre.<\/p>\n