Artist the James Turrell is about to to open the largest-ever model of his Skyspace set up to be hosted at a public establishment.
After a decade in growth, the work, entitled As Seen Beneath – The Dome, will launch on 19 June 2026 at ARoS Aarhus Artwork Museum in Denmark. Guests will enter the work by way of an underground, light-filled hall earlier than encountering the huge indoor domed area, the place they will view the sky by way of a round gap within the ceiling.
“Measuring 16 metres in peak and 40 metres in diameter, As Seen Beneath would be the artist’s most bold Skyspace to this point,” says a museum assertion. “Turrell’s distinctive lighting will wash the complete domed area and body the limitless sky, seen by way of the massive central aperture.”
Turrell says in a press release that the piece has been within the making for a few years and can open to the general public in time for the 2026 summer time solstice.
“I look ahead to seeing how guests encounter and work together with this work, my largest and most bold Skyspace in a public museum,” the artist says. “With As Seen Beneath I’m shaping the expertise of seeing fairly than delivering a picture.”
Different Skyspaces are housed at MoMA PS1 in New York (Assembly, 1980-86/2016)—the primary such work Turrell made within the US—and at Yorkshire Sculpture Park within the UK (Deer Shelter Skyspace, 2006).
The artist continues to work on an bold land artwork challenge, Roden Crater, which he started in 1979, which can rework the within of an extinct volcanic crater in northern Arizona right into a viewing observatory.
His set up at ARoS Aarhus Artwork Museum kinds a part of a serious enlargement challenge for the museum, known as The Subsequent Degree.
