Atomium
Nimbus
With Visual System
14/02/2026 – 14/02/2027
Nimbus is a new artwork created by Visual System to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Atomium’s renovation. It extends the unique dialogue the collective has been cultivating for several years with this iconic architectural landmark and with its audiences from all over the world. The work plays with and disrupts geometry: the monument’s original tubes are reconfigured into gigantic columns that give rise to a living, inhabited space, while the building’s characteristic mirrored spheres multiply across the surfaces, unsettling spatial and temporal references. Nimbus shapes a suspended environment in which light and sound, carried by an original musical composition by Thomas Vaquié, form a vibrating halo, a protective sphere. The audience engages in dialogue with an evolving artwork, creating a singular, plural and universal experience through movement and individual sensibility. In this way, Nimbus celebrates the architecture of the Atomium, revealing a monument in perpetual transformation, where diversity, contemplation and the collective imagination converge.
