Damien Hirst, ICA Spin Stools, 2025. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2026.

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About the artist

Damien Hirst (b. 1965) was born in Bristol, England, and lives and works in London, Devon and Gloucestershire, England. Collections include Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Tate, London; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

Exhibitions include Cornucopia, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (2010); Tate Modern, London (2012); Relics, Qatar Museums Authority, Al Riwaq (2013); Signification (Hope, Immortality and Death in Paris, Now and Then), Deyrolle, Paris (2014); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2015); The Last Supper, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2016); Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice (2017); Damien Hirst at Houghton Hall: Colour Space Paintings and Outdoor Sculptures, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England (2019); Mental Escapology, St. Moritz, Switzerland (2021); Cherry Blossoms, Fondation Cartier, Paris (2021); Archaeology Now, Galleria Borghese, Rome (2021); The Weight of Things, MUCA, Munich (2023-2024); and To Live Forever (For a While), Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2024). Hirst received the Turner Prize in 1995.

Damien Hirst, ICA Spin Stools, 2025

ICA Spin Stools is a bespoke series of 200 unique works that celebrate both Damien Hirst’s striking Spin Paintings series and his long-established relationship with the ICA. 

Each stool is completely unique in its colour palette, featuring Hirst’s signature spin-paint technique and finished with an archival ICA logo – a nod to the Institute’s history and its role in Hirst’s early career. Limited to just 200 pieces, each hand-signed and numbered on the stool’s leg. The works are available by application on HENI Primary from 19th February – 2nd March 2026.

ICA Spin Stools is an homage to Damien Hirst’s first institutional solo exhibition Internal Affairs, which opened at the ICA in 1991 and included some of his most personal and defining works. 

Through ICA Spin Stools, Hirst becomes the latest artist to collaborate with the ICA on the customisation of Artek’s Stool 60, the classic modernist design by renowned architect and designer, Alvar Aalto.

We are extremely grateful to the artist and HENI for donating a portion of the sales to the ICA to continue championing emerging artistic talent and support our programme.

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