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Coachella 2025: 3 new art installations make their debut at music festival

April 19, 2025

Aside from the headlining acts, festivalgoers attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival look forward to the immersive art installations, with new large-scale pieces appearing every year.

This year, three new pieces made their debut, adding massive illuminated flowers, a playful cylinder skyline, and a calming windmill to the atmosphere.

The new pieces joined returning installations like Spectra, a rainbow spherical tower with a spiral walkway; the balloon chain, where festivalgoers can hold a string of balloons that float above them; as well as sculptor Don Kennel’s monumental horse sculpture, which is displayed inside the festival campground.

The sun sets on day three of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Here’s a closer look at the three new large-scale installations at Coachella.

Taffy

From a distance, Canadian-born designer Stephanie Lin’s art structure, which she dubbed Taffy, looks like a futuristic and playful city made of seven towering cylinders that form a colorful skyline on the grassy Coachella field.

Festivalgoers walk to the main stage on day three of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Once people get closer to the towers, which range from 25 to 50 feet high, a more rough yet somewhat silky appearance is revealed. Decked out in pastels, the scalloped towers are reminiscent of mid-century modernism style. During the day, the colors seem to shift with the sun, and at night, the towers are illuminated with changing colors. Thanks to the plywood benches that sit at the bottom of the towers, the installation serves as a communal space for festivalgoers.

“It’s kind of cool to walk through them, or to just chill here and look up at them. It’s pretty relaxing,” said San Diego native Moises Ramos as he sat on one of the benches Friday afternoon.

Le Grand Bouquet

Wildflowers were blooming in the desert at this year’s Coachella, and they were massive wildflowers that made attendees feel like happy, relaxed bugs catching shade beneath them.

Le Grand Bouquet is a garden of gigantic inflatable flowers in all sorts of bright colors that look as if they’ve grown right out of the desert grass. They’re spread out into a collection of seven different “bouquets,” with the tallest one towering at 32 feet and made up of 19 flowers. Underneath the bouquets, people rested and even fell asleep on the colorful beanbags.

Festivalgoers take a moment to rest during day one of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Friday, April 11, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

“I feel like I’m in that one movie where people shrink and run around in the backyard,” said Burbank resident Robin Alajajian, as she sat on a beanbag under a flower. She was referring to the film “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.”

At night, the flowers pulsed with light, but perhaps due to the strong winds, one of the flowers wilted, or in this case, seemed to deflate by nighttime on Friday.

Take Flight

The strong winds that blew through the Coachella field on Friday may have bothered some people, but they were perfect for Take Flight, an installation by the London-based studio Isabel + Helen, which was inspired by 19th-century flying machines.

The 60-foot structure is made up of three towers, each with several turbines, somewhat reminiscent of the ones that dot the desert near Palm Springs as people head to Coachella. But unlike the massive white turbines that line the 10 freeway, these turbines are stylish and funky. They pop with color and are designed in shapes that resemble geometric paper cutouts, which gives the windmill a whimsical feel.

And thanks to the breeze on Friday, they were spinning rapidly throughout the day, creating a constant, peaceful humming sound.

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