James Turrell's Largest Skyspace Just Opened in Denmark

At ARoS Aarhus, the artist's most ambitious public Skyspace redefines immersive art — and arrives the same week as the world's first AI art museum.

On June 19, timed to the summer solstice, James Turrell opened As Seen Below: The Dome at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. At 50 feet high and 130 feet in diameter — roughly the scale of the Pantheon's dome in Rome — it is the largest Skyspace he has ever built for a public institution. Ten years in development.

James Turrell, As Seen Below: The Dome, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 2026. Photo: Mads Smidstrup, courtesy ARoS.

James Turrell inside As Seen Below: The Dome, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.

James Turrell, As Seen Below: The Dome, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 2026. Photo: Mads Smidstrup, courtesy ARoS.

James Turrell, As Seen Below: The Dome, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 2026.

James Turrell, As Seen Below: The Dome, interior detail, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 2026.

Visitors enter through a subterranean light-filled corridor before stepping into the dome, where a circular aperture opens to the sky above. Turrell's precisely calibrated lighting system washes the space in shifting color, altering perception of both the dome and the sky itself. Stepped seating wraps the interior, designed for sustained looking. "With As Seen Below, I'm shaping the experience of seeing rather than delivering an image," Turrell said.

James Turrell, As Seen Below: The Dome, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 2026. Photo: Mads Smidstrup, courtesy ARoS.

The work anchors The Next Level, a major expansion of ARoS that also includes a new subterranean gallery and permanent outdoor exhibition space. It opens the same week Dataland launches in Los Angeles — the world's first AI art museum. Two institutions, two continents, two completely different ideas about what immersive art should ask of a human being.