Musician Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood will present a new exhibition titled “No Go Elevator (not without no keycard)” in a small gallery in Venice next month, coinciding with the Venice Biennale. The show marks their first showcase outside the U.K. and features a mix of drawings and a large painting created in London this year, with cryptic textual components and no unifying theme, according to the artists.
The exhibition matters because it extends Yorke and Donwood’s long-running visual art collaboration beyond album covers for Radiohead into a dedicated gallery context, following their debut at Tin Man Art in London and a retrospective at the Ashmolean Museum in 2025. It highlights how musicians increasingly engage with the fine art world, and the mysterious, concept-free approach challenges conventional exhibition narratives, generating buzz during one of the art world’s biggest events.