DATALAND to Open in Los Angeles With Refik Anadol’s AI Art Vision
A museum devoted to artificial intelligence is about to join Los Angeles’s cultural landscape. DATALAND will open on June 20, 2026, in Grand LA, the downtown complex designed by Frank Gehry, bringing a new institutional home to one of the most closely watched areas of contemporary digital practice.
The project was co-founded by Turkish artists Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, who have both lived and worked in Los Angeles for years. The pair launched Anadol’s studio in the city in 2014, and DATALAND extends that trajectory from studio production into a public-facing museum format. In a statement, Anadol described Los Angeles as “the center of creativity,” calling it a city that shapes the future of art, music, cinema, architecture, and more.
The museum will occupy five gallery spaces totaling 25,000 square feet, with an additional 10,000 square feet reserved for the technologies and hardware required to support its programming. That infrastructure matters: DATALAND is being built not simply as a display space, but as a site where digital systems are part of the exhibition environment itself.
Its first exhibition, “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” is a Refik Anadol Studio project that uses artificial intelligence trained on ecological datasets to translate the intelligence of the natural world into sensory experience. The show will remain on view through Jan. 31, 2027. DATALAND also plans a version of Anadol’s long-running Infinity Room, but with a different register from the mirrored, light-filled environments associated with Yayoi Kusama. Visitors will hear a 1987 recording of an extinct Hawaiian bird species and encounter AI-generated scents.
Public ticketing information has not yet been released. The museum’s website currently offers only presale sign-up information, while membership begins at $350 per year.
For Los Angeles, DATALAND signals more than a new venue. It suggests that AI art, once treated as a niche or speculative field, is now being given the scale, architecture, and institutional framing once reserved for more established forms of contemporary art.
