Designer Daan Roosegaarde has developed Presence, a groundbreaking new interactive artwork installation specially for the Groninger Museum. Where he previously displayed his work in the external public domain, the artist now adopts the internal museum space for the first time, with a large-scale, phosphorescent landscape which changes colour and shape because of the presence of visitors.

Presence is an 800 metre-square living lab. Although the installation is the result of innovative material-technical research, it comes across as highly intuitive. Different areas allow visitors to experience various changes in perspective – from large and solid to small and mobile, from dark to bright. The interaction between visitor and work creates constantly changing visual impressions.