A Rare Banksy and Damien Hirst Collaboration Arrives at Moco Museum London

5 month exclusive!

From January 23rd, 2026, Moco Museum London welcomes a new and exceptional artwork into its collection. For the next five months only, visitors can experience Vandalised Spot Painting (Banlofen) (2024), a rare collaboration between artists Banksy and Damien Hirst.

This exclusive presentation brings together two of the most influential voices in contemporary art. The work will be shown at Moco Museum London for a strictly limited period, offering a moment that is unlikely to repeat.

This is a temporary artwork presentation at Moco Museum London, showcasing a collaborative work by Banksy and Damien Hirst, on view exclusively for five months from January 23rd.

When Order Meets Disruption

Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings are among the most recognisable series in contemporary art. Built from precise systems, perfect circles, controlled colour, and repetition, they reflect an obsession with structure, balance, and clinical order. Over time, these spots became closely linked to pharmaceutical naming and scientific aesthetics, turning colour into something methodical and almost medical.

Banksy’s intervention interrupts that system.

Emerging from one of Hirst’s immaculate dots is a rat, one of Banksys most enduring symbols. Associated with the overlooked and the marginal, the rat breaks the illusion of perfection. It introduces humour, rebellion, and critique into a space defined by control. The act is not destruction but dialogue, street art meeting institutional art on the same surface.

Hirst once described the collaboration simply: “I gave Banksy some spot paintings to mess about with and he painted over some of them.” The result is layered, provocative, and quietly confrontational.

Rather than choosing sides, the work holds both positions in tension, allowing control and interruption to exist without resolution.

A Work That Reflects Moco’s Vision

At Moco Museum London, art is presented as a living conversation. The museum brings together artists who challenge norms, question systems, and speak directly to the world we inhabit now. This collaboration between Banksy and Damien Hirst sits at the heart of that vision.

Vandalised Spot Painting (Banlofen) reflects the tensions that shape contemporary culture. Order and chaos. Authority and resistance. Market structures and subversive humour. Banksy’s rat does not erase Hirst’s system, it coexists within it, suggesting that critique and conformity are inseparable forces in today’s art world.

For Moco, this is what contemporary art does best. It opens space for contradiction without resolving it.

Five Months Only in London

This is a five-month exclusive showing at Moco Museum London, after which the artwork will no longer be on public view at the museum. For visitors, collectors, and art lovers, this is a rare opportunity to encounter a pivotal collaboration in person.

Seeing the work up close reveals details that photographs cannot capture. The surface tension between gloss paint and spray paint. The precise geometry disrupted by an unexpected figure. The quiet humour embedded in the act of vandalism itself.

Visitors can experience the artwork as part of their regular visit to Moco Museum London during the exhibition period.

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Experience it in person at Moco Museum London

Moco Museum London continues to showcase works by artists who have shaped modern and contemporary culture. With this new arrival, the museum strengthens the dialogue between street art and fine art, rebellion and institution, play and seriousness.

Visitors are invited to step inside, slow down, and spend time with a work that asks as many questions as it answers.

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Vandalised Spot Painting (Banlofen) by Banksy and Damien Hirst is on view at Moco Museum London from January 23rd for a five-month exclusive period.

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