As seen below is a Skyspace and an artwork in the ARoS collection created by the American artist James Turrell. Owing to its scale, quality, and unique expression, Turrell himself describes it as his most ambitious Skyspace to date.

The work reveals that human vision is not like an objective camera. What we see inside arises through the controlled meeting of light, space, and the senses.

How to experience As seen below

Open sky

In Open sky mode, the great domed chamber appears limitless with an open view of the sky. The space removes familiar points of reference, allowing the sky to appear as a pure field of colour, intense and immediate. Open sky is the work in its simplest form and is typically how you will encounter it upon arrival. From June 20 you can experience Open sky during the museum's opening hours. No reservation is required for this.

Colour shift

In Colour shift, the opening to the sky is sealed, transforming the nature of the experience. Here, it is no longer the sky that takes centre stage, but light and colour. With the open sky removed from view, our attention focuses on the space itself: walls dissolve into light, and the space appears to shift. Here, light is revealed as something tangible – not merely as illumination, but as a material that both shapes and permeates the space around you.

Colour shift in As seen below take place every hour during the museum’s opening hours from May through August. For the rest of the year, they occur every second hour during the museum’s opening hours between sunrise and sunset.

Twilight

You can experience something truly special in As seen below during the transitions between day and night. In Twilight, the aperture is open to the sky, and the light within the Skyspace gradually changes colour. As Turrell shapes the context of vision through shifting hues inside the Skyspace, the colour of the sky seemingly changes with them, moment by moment. As he says: "I can change the sky to any colour you want." Here, light shapes how you see, forging a direct connection between the dome, your gaze, and the sky above.