Damien Hirst Brings His Kaleidoscope Series to Dom Pérignon's 2026 Limited Editions

Damien Hirst knows exactly what he hopes people will do with his newest work: open it. The British artist has collaborated with Dom Pérignon to augment the brand’s 2026 limited edition releases—the Dom Pérignon Vintage 2018 and the Rosé Vintage 2010—and wants as many people as possible to pull back the foil, pop the cork, and enjoy it, rather than stow it away. “I have a lot of art in storage gathering dust, but I’m also a collector myself and so I understand that world,” he tells Surface.

The editions, launching at the end of the year, draw on Hirst’s Kaleidoscope series, in which fragments of organic matter are arranged into symmetrical, hypnotic compositions that seem to repeat without end. Here, the kaleidoscope is applied to Dom Pérignon’s historic shield. Rather than vanishing into the pattern, the shield multiplies through it, repeating in successive configurations that create a sense of endless movement. The house describes the result as a contemporary emblem built on its heritage, and says the collaboration rests on a shared belief that “beauty is not opposed to complexity, it is its fulfillment.”

Known for working at a monumental scale, Hirst found the bottle’s limits were not an obstacle. It “feels like a universal form and so working on it was easy,” he says. “It has a very savvy and understandable function without anything funky or extra, so it was a pleasure to work with.”

The edition covers two champagnes, and their contrasting characters helped to shape the design. “I wanted you to see the contrast, not quite black and white but the pink and blue seemed to express it perfectly,” Hirst says. Deep blue marks Dom Pérignon Vintage 2018, a year of sun and early ripeness that Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon pushed toward more minerality, fruit, and salinity. Warm pink marks the Rosé Vintage 2010, a darker, more inward wine in which Pinot Noir shows unusual density. The house calls one “solar and taut” and the other “more intimate and shadowed.”

Hirst sees the partnership as an even exchange. “I think it’s a good collaboration for both sides,” he says. “The artist gets to bring the art down to earth and make art you can use or consume, and Dom Pérignon gets to focus on its product as more than just a product and something in the realm of art.”

His work has long dealt with preservation, and this collaboration touches that theme in a subtle way. “I simultaneously love and hate change and for that reason alone it was great to collaborate with Dom Pérignon,” he concludes. “I love that some things feel timeless and never change.”