It is a very strange postmodern building that looks to me like some kind of 50s drive-in-movie structure. At the gallery shop you can buy lots of neat things, all nicely colour-coded for your perusal.
The architecture is quite stark and a little too mechanized - unnecessary and ineffective functionalism - but I liked the bathrooms. The doors only open automatically by the push of a button and we got locked in for a while as we tried to use our hands...
This was one of my favourite pieces. A cubic room was created by heavy velvet curtains hanging from the ceiling. Shoes off, you walk into a space that is instantly warm and comforting like a living room. Clips from the artist's experiences from Japan, mostly at the macro scale, are projected on the ceiling and reflected by a huge mirror resting on the floor. It was calming and mesmerizing, making me forget I was thousands of kilometres from home, making me feel placeless but perfectly content with it. 
Then we went to the beach next to Arken and had lunch surrounded by a bright and beautiful hazy sky.
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