Colours of Ostrava 2025

Colours of Ostrava kicked off its 22nd edition with a fresh new look. Twenty years after our last collaboration, we created a versatile visual system for the festival, whose colour palette draws directly from life at the festival – the site of the former steelworks and blast furnaces, the performers and visitors, and the city of Ostrava itself. These images are gradually transformed into a unique pattern using visual effects, which is then applied in various layouts. The dynamic visual layer is complemented by a simple system of yellow frames that serve as fixed points within the moving visuals, defining information, guiding attention, and giving individual outputs a shared rhythm.

Together, the entire new visual design reflects what Colours of Ostrava truly is – a festival without genre boundaries, open across generations, that seeks new forms and works to blur differences.