Step Inside

Anicka Yi, Philippe Parreno, Laure Prouvost and Pamela Rosenkranz invite you to see and feel the world in new ways.

Sound, scent, light and movement. Step Inside features four immersive installations that examine how contemporary art engages the body, heightens sensory awareness, and creates spaces for experience and critical reflection.

Step Inside addresses current themes such as climate, migration, ecofeminism, biotechnology, and the relationship between humans and machines. The four works demonstrate how materials such as scent, sound, and light can generate insights that emerge in the encounter between body and environment.

Anicka Yi

Through a multisensory practice, Anicka Yi (b. 1971, South Korea) has radically expanded what an artwork can be, transforming exhibition into bodily experiences. In Step Inside, Yi presents the first part of her extensive project Emptiness: a video work exploring whether an artist’s practice can be continued by AI after the artist’s death. This is Yi’s first presentation at a Danish museum.

Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parenno (b. 1964, France) creates installations where sound, light, mechanical and digital elements form a spatial choreography. An algorithm-controlled piano and floating helium fish feature in Parreno’s work, which changes form throughout the day and across the exhibition period.

Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, France) presents an installation where woven textiles, video, sound, and found objects merge into a sensory space focused on ecofeminism, migration, and care. A large woven tapestry adorned with floating nymphs marks the entrance to the installation, while glass birds resting in pools of oil and a narrative centered on the iconic Grandmother figure interlace personal memories with global crises.

Pamela Rosenkranz

Pamela Rosenkranz (b. 1979, Switzerland) works at the intersection of biology, technology, and commercial systems. In She Has No Mouth, visitors are enveloped in blue LED light that alters the appearance of skin and the atmosphere of the space, while a synthetic scent – based on a feline pheromone – activates the body’s instictive sensory apparatus.

The Obel Family Foundation

The New Carlsberg Foundation

The Stibo Foundation

Credit cover image:

Step Inside, ARoS 2026.Installation view: Mads Smidstrup © ARoS 2026