The turning horizon
360 degrees revolving with you over the water.
Mikkel Houmøller — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lusi Lindwurm — CC BY-SA 4.0 · SmartDrones Aarhus — CC0 · Lusi Lindwurm — CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood cannot bear Aarhus bay's ice and storms — so rather than building it in heavy materials that would spoil its simplicity, the city chose to take it down and store it yearly: a decision that preserves the work and makes its return each spring a small local event Aarhusians announce online. The winter visitor finds the beach lovely without it — and the forest path is worth walking regardless.
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The Infinite Bridge is Denmark's simplest artistic idea and its most photographed: a complete wooden circle sixty metres across running out from Ballehage beach into the sea and back — you walk it, leave the land, circle over the water and return where you began, with no destination and no end, the horizon turning a full 360 degrees with you. Built as a temporary work for a sculpture exhibition (2015), people loved it so much it became permanently seasonal: assembled each spring and dismantled each autumn to protect it from winter ice — so the first question before going is whether it is currently up (roughly May to October). It sits on the coastal forest path south of Aarhus: a lovely half-hour walk from Marselisborg through woods and beaches reaches it — and Danish swimmers leap from it in summer though it was never designed for that. Sunset on it is Aarhus's most famous image outright.
360 degrees revolving with you over the water.
Half an hour's walk from Marselisborg.
Ballehage beach, 8000 Aarhus