Skylight is an important circular wall sculpture by Astrid Krogh and the latest in a series of sky-inspired works by the Danish artist.

By means of Astrid Krogh’s subtle sense of color graduations, Skylight is slowly changing nuances in a slow and meditative rhythm, analogous to the colors of the sky during a day. The feeling of infinite depth and cosmic reality is central to Krogh’s art, and by giving light a soft and tactile quality, Astrid Krogh is proposing a poetic vocabulary based on sensorial color experience, by which natural phenomena is transformed into emotional perception.

In the words of the British author Bradley Quinn: The lingua franca in Krogh’s world describes the feelings evoked by the beauty of the dawn, and the emotions stirred when the sunset streaks extraordinary colors across the sky. Her vocabulary is nuanced by sensory experiences, which are articulated through a lexicon of color and light….Krogh’s ability to speak the language of light reveals her mastery of the classic syntax of color, shadow and form. This syntax has been articulated by painters for centuries, through the work of masters such as Turner, Constable and Eckersberg, and more recently by contemporary artists such as James Turrell, Dan Flavin and Olafur Eliasson.

Astrid Krogh is widely considered as one of the most significant Danish artists in the field of light installations, starting by the end of the 1990s with monumental light weavings for various museum exhibitions and site-specific commissions such as the Maersk building, the Danish Parliament and the 21 C Museum in Cincinnati. In 2006, 2009 and 2011 she received the Danish Art Foundation Prize. She won the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal in 2008, and she received the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize in 2013. In 2015, she was awarded with the Annual Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Denmark.

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Skylight
    2013 / 2016
    Luminous wall sculpture
    Led, aluminium, fabric
    D: 180 cm. P: 17 cm
    Limited edition of 8 unique pieces (+ 2 A.P.)

  • Astrid Krogh is working at the intersection between art, architecture and design. Born in Denmark in 1968, Krogh graduated from the textile faculty at The Danish Design School in 1997 and established her own studio the following year, where she started using optical fibers to create woven textiles, thereby weaving with light itself. Krogh’s point of departure from conventional textile design was not merely her fascination with light but also her at traction to shape-morphing objects and shifting colorways, “I use light as both a material and a technology”, Krogh explains. Few artists speak a refined language as fluently as Astrid Krogh, who uses light to describe aspects of Nature that words simply cannot. Her vocabulary is nuanced by sensory experiences, which are articulated through a lexicon of color and light. Astrid Krogh’s works are included in important museum collections, such as the Designmuseum Danmark and the 21C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation, USA. She has carried out monumental light installations and site-specific commissions for private and public collections, such as the 21C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation, Cincinnati, USA; Longchamp Flagship store, Paris, France; Danish University Center, Beijing, China; Maersk building, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Danish Parliament, Copenhagen, Denmark. Krogh’s works are published in important books about contemporary textiles, architecture and design and the artist has won several prizes, including the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal, the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize, the Annual Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Denmark, the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize and the CODA Award. 

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