Prada Mode, the members only social club staged a mini takeover of NYC during the Tribeca Film Festival. With events taking place at nearly a half dozen locations around Manhattan ranging from Katz’s Deli to The Chelsea Hotel, it seemed like an ambitious project worth checking out. The main installation points were at the Prada store in Soho and the Chelsea Hotel a couple blocks west of the Flatiron Building.
This is the continuation of a Satellites series called Satellites II showcasing a collaboration with Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima. Three guest rooms at the Chelsea Hotel were transformed between a livestream television studio, the Prada Mode Channel, on member days and an art installation open to the public. These were named the Spaceship Studio, the Silver Studio and the Cloud Studio. The Silver Studio presented videos of Refn and Kojima on custom built space-age TVs with transparent screens. A control panel structure in the Spaceship Studio dominated the room looking like a set piece from a b-movie sci-fi flick.
Over at Prada’s Soho store, a giant inflatable UFO hovered in the double height space. Broadcasts from the previous private days were screened below including an interviews with New York-based artists and culture personalities.
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ABOUT PRADA MODE NEW YORK
Prada presents Satellites II, the fourteenth iteration of Prada Mode at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City in collaboration with Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima.
Coinciding with the Tribeca Festival, the multi-day event builds on Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima’s previous collaboration, Satellites, an exhibition exploring the connection between love, language, and creativity through the friendship of the two artists, which was presented at Prada Aoyama Tokyo in the summer of 2025. An immersive experience, Satellites II is an extension of the original exhibition, traversing across communication and human connection spanning multiple languages, cultures, and spaces, interwoven into the romantic iconography of the Hotel Chelsea and other renowned New York venues.
For Prada Mode New York, Satellites II is hosted at the Hotel Chelsea, where a spatial narrative moves between public, domestic, and intimate environments of the hotel, reflecting the balance between private spaces and collective accessibility. The event takes place across different sections of the hotel, featuring a cultural program conceived by the curators to invoke an invasion of the historical space with a classical yet progressive science fiction aesthetic. Over the two-day private exhibition, selected hotel rooms serve as micro television studios, showcasing original and unique performances for those with exclusive access. Subsequently, the next three days are open to the public, allowing guests to access the same hotel rooms, now transformed into intentional art installations.
Additional areas in the hotel host site-specific installations that center around Nicolas Winding Refn and Hideo Kojima’s continuous dialogue and obsessions.
The culminating effect is an unforgettable cosmic voyage into the connection, inspiration, and friendship shared by the two artists.
Prada Mode New York includes a live cultural program encompassing talks, concerts, performances, and reinterpretation of broadcast formats.
ABOUT PRADA MODE
Prada Mode is a contemporary cultural series bridging audiences and luminaries at diverse locations world-wide. An evolution of Prada Double Club by artist Carsten Höller, Prada Mode takes the form of a cultural gathering that centers the work of visionary artists, architects, filmmakers, and more, many of whom are longtime collaborators with Prada. Partner artists work with Prada to develop site-specific installations, shaped by the host city and coinciding with the global cultural calendar. During its private days, Prada Mode operates as a members’ club with talks, workshops, parties, and special programming that reflect the core themes of each iteration. During the public days, access expands for all audiences to discover-and respond to-significant art and perspectives through a novel, temporary experience that is the only of its kind.
Past iterations (2018-25) were held in Miami, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow, Los Angeles, Dubai, Tokyo, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, and Osaka. Partner curators have included Jamie Diamond, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, Jia Zhang-Ke, Damien Hirst, Martine Syms, Lee Sook-Kyung, Kim Jee-Woon, Yeon Sang-ho, Jeong Dahee, Theaster Gates, Kazuyo Sejima, and Elmgreen & Dragset.
ABOUT NICOLAS WINDING REFN
Creator, director, writer, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn is known for the PUSHER trilogy (1996-2005), BLEEDER (1999), BRONSON (2008), VALHALLA RISING
(2009), DRIVE (2011), ONLY GOD FORGIVES (2013), and THE NEON DEMON (2016). His television series include Too Old to Die Young (2019) for Amazon and Copenhagen Cowboy (2023) for Netflix. Nicolas Winding Refn created a short film for Prada’s Spring Summer 2023 Collection, “Touch of Crude” (2023), and premiered his short film advertisement at the 2024 Venice Film Festival entitled “Beauty Is Not A Sin.” His latest feature film, HER PRIVATE HELL, is set to release in 2026. Nicolas Winding Refn conceived Satellites as a collaborative exhibition with Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima at Prada Aoyama Tokyo in 2025 with the support of Fondazione Prada.
ABOUT HIDEO KOJIMA
Hideo Kojima is a world-renowned game creator and auteur known for pushing the boundaries of the video game medium. Widely considered the father of the stealth genre, he is also credited with innovating both storytelling and cinematic presentation in video games at large. On December 16th, 2015, Hideo Kojima established his own studio called KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, under the banner of “From Sapiens to Ludens.” On November 8th, 2019, the studio released its first title, DEATH STRANDING, starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, and Lindsay Wagner for PlayStation®4 and PC. DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT was later released for the PlayStation®5, PC, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Since its release, DEATH STRANDING has received numerous game awards and achieved worldwide acclaim.
The sequel, DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH, was released on June 26th, 2025. The PC version of DS2 was released on March 19th, 2026. Other exciting projects include the title OD, in partnership with Xbox Game Studios, as well as a film adaptation of DEATH STRANDING with independent entertainment company A24, and a completely new and original action-espionage IP, PHYSINT (working title). In 2020, Hideo Kojima received the BAFTA Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of exceptional contribution to film, games, or television. In 2022, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government honored Hideo Kojima with the 72nd Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Fine Arts in the media arts category, given to those who have made outstanding achievements and advancements in the arts. Other notable honors include the Hall of Fame award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (D.I.C.E. Awards), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Game Developers Choice Awards, and the Industry Icon award from The Game Awards.
Photos and Text: Dave Pinter
Additional Text: Prada
