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.