Radiohead installation at Coachella
Festivalgoers toured the 'Radiohead Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia' installation on Saturday, April 11, with local press publishing photos of attendees inside the structure. (pressenterprise.com) Regional roundups say the installation was one of the more talked‑about pieces amid dozens of art works across the three‑day event in Indio. (nationaltoday.com)
Festivalgoers at Coachella spent Saturday, April 11, walking through Radiohead’s “Motion Picture House: KID A MNESIA,” a 75-minute film-and-gallery installation inside the festival’s new underground bunker in Indio. (pressenterprise.com) The installation opened Friday, April 10, at the Empire Polo Fields and is available to Coachella ticket holders across both 2026 weekends, not as a live Radiohead set but as a separate audiovisual exhibit. (variety.com) At the center is a 75-minute large-format film built from artwork Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made during the creation of Radiohead’s albums “Kid A” and “Amnesiac,” with audio remixed from the original multitrack recordings. (billboard.com) Coachella built the piece into a new bunker beneath the grounds, a 17,000-square-foot space with ceilings reported at 38 feet in Radiohead’s announcement and 28 feet in Billboard’s festival preview. (variety.com) (billboard.com) The project turns a work that first appeared in 2021 as a downloadable digital exhibition on personal computers, Mac computers, and PlayStation 5 into a physical walk-through space with galleries of full-scale art. (variety.com) That 2021 version arrived after earlier plans for an in-person exhibition were derailed during the coronavirus pandemic, and Radiohead’s 2026 rollout presents the bunker show as the physical version of that original idea. (hypebeast.com) The installation also stands out because Coachella is using it as part of the festival program itself: Billboard reported five screenings a day in the bunker, with air conditioning, while local and regional coverage counted it among the weekend’s most discussed artworks. (billboard.com) (nationaltoday.com) (pressenterprise.com) Radiohead will take “Motion Picture House: KID A MNESIA” on the road after Coachella, with announced runs in Brooklyn from May 6 to May 31, Chicago from July 30 to August 23, Mexico City from October 27 to November 15, and San Francisco from January 14 to February 7, 2027. (variety.com) For Coachella, the draw was the same one visible in Saturday’s photos from inside the structure: a festival crowd lining up not for a reunion performance, but for a bunker-sized revisit of Radiohead’s 2000 and 2001 era. (pressenterprise.com) (rollingstone.com)
