Inside the House of Kong: What to Expect from the Gorillaz Exhibition in Los Angeles
House of Kong Los Angeles 2026: Key Details
After its acclaimed run in London, the House of Kong immersive exhibition moves to Los Angeles in early 2026.
The experience will take place at:
Rolling Greens
1005 Mateo St
Los Angeles, CA 90021
📅 Open February 26 to March 19, 2026
The Los Angeles edition follows the same core immersive walkthrough format first staged at London’s Copper Box Arena. Visitors move through a guided, headphone-led exhibition exploring the Gorillaz universe, with phones sealed throughout the experience.
Alongside the exhibition, Gorillaz are also staging separate live performances connected to the release of The Mountain. These concerts are ticketed separately and are not part of the walkthrough experience itself.
If you are heading to LA, here is what to expect inside.
Follow the arrow. The House of Kong experience begins just off Hackney Bridge.
Forget your phone, put on your headphones, and step inside the twisted world of Gorillaz. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s groundbreaking band now has its own surreal walkthrough — part gallery, part trip, and all vibes.
What is House of Kong?
House of Kong is the name Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett gave to their original studio space, the creative bunker where Gorillaz was born. It’s where the first sketches, samples, and stories took shape, giving life to the animated band members we now know: 2D, Murdoc, Noodle, and Russel.
Jamie Hewlett (left) and Damon Albarn (right) appear alongside the animated Gorillaz characters in a staged scene from the House of Kong exhibition.
This new London experience, built inside the Copper Box Arena on London’s Olympic Park, reimagines that studio space as a full-blown immersive and guided exhibition. It’s not a greatest hits retrospective. It’s a living, breathing walkthrough of the Gorillaz universe.
A close of the Kong statue outside the House of Kong exhiibtion showing his body covered in Gorillaz themed stickers
A wall of Gorillaz history, from Demon Days to Plastic Beach, setting the tone before entry.
What to Expect from the Gorillaz Exhibition
From the outside, it’s low-key. Just a cabin at Hackney Bridge with Gorillaz-style signage and a friendly welcome. But inside? You’re in their world.
Green Storage Containers painted with the Gorillaz logo, and the band point the entrance direction for the House of Kong
First, you’re asked to seal your phone in a pouch and switch it off. No photos, no distractions. Just you, a set of headphones, and the unfolding experience.
You begin in a dimly lit gallery, early character art, sketchbooks, and video screens showing the band’s evolution from underground project to cultural phenomenon. So far, so standard.
Then the door opens, and things get weird.
Outside sits a rusting Winnebago, possibly Murdoc’s. You step inside and it stinks. Pine tree air fresheners hang in clusters from the ceiling. Through your headphones, a voiceover tells the story of this twisted tour bus, its odours, and the unholy chaos within. It’s grubby. It’s immersive. It’s brilliant.
And it only gets better.
You move through studio sets and prop rooms, each more surreal than the last. There are real instruments, costume pieces, ephemera from across the Gorillaz timeline — all layered with commentary, atmospheric sound design, and of course, music. Some spaces feel like you’ve stepped into the mind of Murdoc. Others could be Noodle’s memory fragments.
It builds. It warps. Then finally, phones unsealed, you reach a glowing scale model of Plastic Beach. It feels like you’ve returned from somewhere else entirely.
A 3D model of the Gorillaz Plastic Beach Island
Is it Worth It?
Completely. House of Kong isn’t just another band exhibition. It’s a psychological trip into one of pop’s most unconventional acts. Part installation, part fever dream, part secret gig in your ears.
There’s a reason they ban phones. It would spoil the experience — and the surprise. The less you know, the better.
Book Tickets at https://houseofkong.gorillaz.com/
House of Kong Photos
Whilst you can’t take photos during the immersive section at the House of Kong, there are plenty of opportunities to get some cool photos before and after the event. Here’s a few more Gorillaz pictures that we took.
Inside the exhibition, after the immersive Gorillaz exhibition
Classic Gorillaz illustration, rendered at full scale inside the immersive walkthrough.
Large-scale artwork from Valley of the Pagans dominates this section of the exhibition.