The Hirshhorn Museum presents the first US museum survey and largest US exhibition of work by identical twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, known globally as OSGEMEOS—Portuguese for “the twins.” Nearly 1,000 artworks, photographs, and archival materials that highlight the trajectory of their collaborative multidisciplinary practice are on display until Aug. 3, 2025. But there is a world of OSGEMEOS to be discovered in public spaces, from Brazil to Berlin. Join us for a globetrotting tour.

OSGEMEOS Double Mural pays Tribute to Hip Hop and New York - When two side walls on 14th Street in New York City were left exposed after a building demolition, the twins jumped on this opportunity to paint a confrontational dialogue, paying homage to the breaking battles that took place on the streets of New York in the 1980s. Referencing old school, the twins painted b-boys and b-girls with boomboxes, paying tribute to James Brown, Kuriaki, and Frosty Freeze from Rock Steady.

On the opposing wall to the first Rock On to the Break Dawn mural, OSGEMEOS painted breakers in tracksuits, Converse, and Glide Master medallions, and a shirt with a Dondi tribute, taken from a photograph captured by photojournalist legend Martha Cooper. There is also a denim jacket feature by Todd James, who started tagging the New York City Subway system under the name REAS when he was very young.

In this mural created for the Vilnius Street Art Festival, OSGEMEOS nods to their heritage, depicting their grandfather Albinas Kanciukaitis, who was of Lithuanian descent, sitting in one palm of a Giant figure who emerges from the building's façade.

In 2014, the organizers of the Vancouver Biennial invited OSGEMEOS to cover six cement silos on Granville Island with their signature characters. The twins painted each silo in the round, resulting in a monumental 360-degree, 70-foot-tall mural—their first public artwork in Canada.

In an ambitious mural produced by artist and historian Peter Michalski, OSGEMEOS depict a character clutching a boat covered in fishing lines, which dangle a variety of the twins' signature motifs: an alien, a unicorn, small buildings, a face whose eyes are covered with a GEMEOS tag, and other images.

OSGEMEOS created this mural (r.) of a graffiti writer seen from behind with Peter Michalski—an artist, art historian, and curator—and Loomit, a German graffiti pioneer. Located across Siemensallee from the Siemenspark, on Hofmannstabe 63, this mural is one of many large-scale murals adorning buildings in this office park. The mural on the left is produced by the artist Aryz.

In this mural, one of OSGEMEOS's trademark Giant figures emerges from the otherwise bare façade of the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco. This work was created ten years after the duo had their first solo gallery show in the US at this venue, known for supporting artists with roots in graffiti and street art. The mural is dedicated to Jade and Tie THR.

Covering a façade in Naestved, Denmark, OSGEMEOS painted a female figure emerging from a watery blue background, her hat spanning the width of the building. The woman holds a boat in her hand, which in turn contains a tiny building, a man, and a spotted dog. The dog—which appears in many of OSGEMEOS's artworks—is based on the twins' family pet, Pink. If you take the train into Naesteved, the mural is just across the parking lot from the Nord station.

Created in collaboration with the Spanish artist Aryz, this mural elegantly merges the artists' distinct styles.The work was sponsored by Urban Forms Gallery, which has facilitated the creation of 30 large format paintings on building façades in the city center of Lodz. The mural is painted on a 4-story wall across from the Red Tower building.

OSGEMEOS partnered with graffiti legend Futura 2000 to create this mural on the side of a Queens high school as part of the Branded Arts festival. More than 15 artists painted murals throughout the school, which also hosted guided tours, a symposium, community workshops by City Kids Foundation, and other events. In this mural, the character’s sunglasses are an exact replica of a piece Futura created on a New York subway train in 1980, titled Break.

OSGEMEOS created this mural for the Reborn Art Festival, founded in 2017 to help revitalize Japan's Ishinomaki region in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Festival is curated by Etsuko and Koichi Watari of the Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art. The mural is painted on the wall of Theater Kinematica and the City Lights Cafe.

OSGEMEOS created this mural as part of the Mural Festival in Montreal, Canada. The work combines a portrait of a Giant character with an alien abduction scene: a UFO hovers over the Giant's head, pulling a tiny person, a dog, and an assortment of objects into its base. The translucent cloud holding these hovering objects, in turn, forms the Giant's hair. The mural is across the parking lot from the Starbucks.

In this mural, one of OSGEMEOS's trademark Giant figures emerges from the otherwise bare façade of the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco. This work was created ten years after the duo had their first solo gallery show in the US at this venue, known for supporting artists with roots in graffiti and street art. The mural is dedicated to Jade and Tie THR.