Nimbus

The raw material here is the Atomium itself. Visual System, a Brussels collective, takes the building's own shapes and reworks them in light and sound inside Sphere I1, set to an original score by Thomas Vaquié. You don't stand back and look at it: you move through it, between the light and the music.

It was made for the 20th anniversary of the 2006 renovation, when the monument reopened on 18 February. Visual System has worked with the Atomium for more than ten years, and its exhibition director Arnaud Bozzini calls the building "almost a laboratory" for them. Nimbus shares the anniversary programme with Romain Tardy's Supply Chain, in another sphere, and Dirty Monitor's Rotonde on the outside after dark.

The Atomium warns that the visual effects can be disorienting, and that people prone to vertigo or epilepsy are likely to be sensitive to them. It is open daily 10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:30, until 7 March 2027.