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For its 14th outing, Prada Mode is heading back to New York — this time with Satellites II, a new immersive collaboration between filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and game creator Hideo Kojima. Staged inside the storied Hotel Chelsea, the project will unfold from June 3 to 7, 2026, with the first two days reserved for Prada Mode members before opening to the public from June 5 to 7. The event also lands alongside this year’s Tribeca Festival.
The exhibition builds on Satellites, the pair’s 2025 project at Prada Aoyama in Tokyo, pushing their ongoing creative dialogue into a more expansive, more atmospheric New York setting. Prada describes the new chapter as an immersive environment moving through the hotel’s public, domestic, and more intimate spaces, shaped by a “classical yet progressive science fiction aesthetic.”
That setup feels especially fitting for Hotel Chelsea, a place already haunted by decades of cultural mythology. For the private programme, selected guest rooms will be transformed into micro television studios, each hosting original live performances. When the doors open to the public, those same rooms will shift into installations, turning performance into residue, set into atmosphere, and spectacle into something slower and more uncanny.
Across the wider programme, Prada says talks, concerts, screenings, performances, dining experiences, and site-specific works will spill out beyond the hotel and into the city itself. At its core, Satellites II continues Refn and Kojima’s interest in love, language, creativity, and communication — ideas that already sat at the heart of the first exhibition, and which now return in a setting loaded with romance, legend, and artistic afterlife.
It’s not hard to see why this pairing works. Refn’s cinema has long obsessed over stylised alienation, seduction, and psychic atmosphere, while Kojima has spent decades turning questions of distance, intimacy, and connection into entire playable worlds. Put them together inside one of New York’s most mythologised buildings, and Prada Mode starts to feel less like a branded members club and more like a delirious sci-fi séance. That, at least, seems to be the promise.