Prada Mode is heading to New York for its 14th edition, taking over the iconic Hotel Chelsea in conjunction with the Tribeca Festival from June 3 to 7.
The event has been conceived by two real-life friends: Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima. Titled “Satellites II,” it builds on their previous Prada-mediated collaboration — the “Satellites” exhibition mounted at Prada Aoyama in Tokyo last summer, which explored the relationship between love, language and creativity. The New York iteration extends that conversation through a sci-fi lens, with happenings, performances and site-specific installations scattered throughout the hotel’s spaces.
The first two days, June 3 and 4, will be invitation-only. Several of the hotel’s rooms will be transformed into television studios hosting original performances, while others will accommodate selected guests overnight. The following three days open to the public, with additional art installations inside the rooms and further activations at undisclosed venues around the city. A broader cultural programme of talks, concerts, performances and broadcasts will run across the full five days.
Winding Refn is best known for the Pusher trilogy and for winning the Best Director prize at Cannes for Drive in 2011. He also directed a short film for Prada’s spring 2023 collection. Kojima, widely regarded as the father of the stealth genre in video games, founded Kojima Productions in 2015 and released Death Stranding — starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux — before receiving the BAFTA Fellowship in 2020 in recognition of his exceptional contribution to games and film.
Prada Mode has been travelling the world since its inaugural edition at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2018, with previous stops including London, Osaka, Inujima, Abu Dhabi and Los Angeles, each developed in collaboration with a different artist or creative figure.