Coachella 2026 Features Art Installations By Sabine Marcelis, Among Others. Artsy

At Coachella 2026, the art program is no longer a backdrop to the music. It is part of the event's architecture, with new installations by Dutch artist Sabine Marcelis (b. 1988), London architect Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas, and The Los Angeles Design Group (LADG) shaping the festival grounds across two weekends, April 10th to 12th and April 17th to 19th.

The works are conceived less as objects to be viewed from a distance than as environments to enter. Marcelis's Maze (2026) is an inflatable labyrinth of curved forms inspired by the Coachella Valley, a mirage-like structure that is expected to take on a luminous presence after dark. Chatziparaskevas's Starry Eyes (2026) translates the barrel cactus into a series of brightly colored geometric towers, some nearly 40 feet tall, with star-shaped skylights inside. The LADG's Visage Brut (2026), led by Andrew Holder and Claus Benjamin Freyinger, is a modular totemic tower that glows green at night.

The program is organized by Raffi Lehrer of Public Art Company and Paul Clemente of Goldenvoice, who framed the installations as works meant to be physically inhabited.“What unites [the artworks] is a shared generosity; each piece is designed to be entered, sat beneath, wandered through, and genuinely felt,” Lehrer said in a statement.“We're curating for the body as much as the eye. The best festival art doesn't just occupy space-it transforms it.”

That emphasis on bodily experience has become central to Coachella's art identity. The festival's installations are not only temporary attractions; some are later relocated into nearby communities as permanent public art. This year, that afterlife continues with Stephanie Lin's Taffy (2025), a cluster of colorful towers from last year's festival, which will be installed in Palm Desert Park later in 2026.

In that sense, Coachella's art program now operates on two timelines at once: the immediate spectacle of the festival weekend and the slower civic life of public sculpture after the crowds leave.

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