28 May 2025
‘House of Kong’ runs from August 8 to September 3 at London’s Copper Box
This summer, Gorillaz will mark their 25th anniversary not just with music, but with a multi-sensory retrospective that blurs the boundaries between animation, performance, and world-building.
Titled House of Kong, the exhibition invites visitors into the group's mythologised headquarters, opening at London's Copper Box Arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from August 8 to September 3.
Presented as a fully immersive experience, House of Kong offers a rare glimpse into the band’s surreal inner world—a visual and narrative exploration of their two-and-a-half-decade journey across genre, media, and identity. Through archival ephemera, scenographic environments, and digital interventions, the exhibition will chart the evolution of Gorillaz’s virtual personas, Murdoc Niccals, 2D, Russel Hobbs and Noodle, whose collective misadventures have redefined what it means to be a band in the 21st century.
The exhibition’s title draws from "Kong Studios," the fictional headquarters at the heart of Gorillaz lore. Here, the lines between fiction and reality continue to blur, retracing the group’s origins from the early 2000 release of Tomorrow Comes Today, to their position today as pioneers of audiovisual storytelling and cross-dimensional collaboration.
In tandem with the exhibition, Gorillaz will host four site-specific performances at the Copper Box Arena, on August 29, 30, and September 2 and 3, offering a rare live counterpoint to the exhibition's conceptual core. Billed as "celebratory one-off" shows, these limited-capacity events promise to be as idiosyncratic and theatrically loaded as the band itself.
“The gates of Kong will swing open for the very first time,” the band teased on Instagram on May 21. The exhibition will run daily from 10:30AM to 10PM.
Secure your spot at House of Kong and catch the official trailer below.
Via: Mixmag
