The Book Design Studio of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava in cooperation with the High School of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznan organizes the fifth edition of the international student book design competition. At the opening ceremony on Wednesday 27 May 2026 at 5 pm, the winning and awarded works will be announced. The exhibition will run until 22 June 2026.

BookVision is an international project based on university collaboration from the outset. Over time, it has become a wide network of contact and communication between students and between educators and universities. The competition is open to all students of art colleges and faculties of education for whom the author's book or book form in general is a means of artistic expression. For the fifth edition, we received 220 entries from 45 universities from 18 countries, from which a jury composed of representatives of the V4 countries selected 94 works for the exhibition. 

The fifth edition of BookVision was created within the framework of international cooperation between the V4 countries. The intention of the broader cooperation in the preparation and implementation of the competition was to open the space for debate about the competition to other colleagues at universities abroad, to get feedback, support and new ideas from them, and to develop joint activity.

An important moment of cooperation between the V4 countries is the possibility to organize BookVision V. in the form of a travelling exhibition. It will be presented not only in the Gallery of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava (GAFU) in Ostrava, but also in galleries in Bratislava, Budapest and Poznan. This will allow a significantly wider audience to get to know in person a unique selection of artists' books by many young artists from the represented schools and countries. The travelling exhibition and other events will continue to take place during 2027 and BookVision will thus move to the biennial format from this year onwards.

The purpose of the event is to jointly present a broad cross-section of the young generation's work in the form of books, which, because there is necessarily a haptic contact with the work including the activation of other senses, is a unique private space to connect with art. Despite its modest format, the book manages to encompass big ideas, themes and stories using a wide range of artistic techniques. It intersects important personal and social aspects, various artistic disciplines, physical, digital and experimental forms of communication that can outline not only the future of the book, but of society as a whole.

Curator: Julie Kačerovská

Graphic Design: Jakub Konvica

Technical Implementation: Marek Franz

Collaboration: Dominika Sulírová

International Collaboration:

Tomasz Jurek (UAP Poznań)

Zuzana Lapitková (VŠVU Bratislava)

Lenka Lindak Lukačovičová (VŠVU Bratislava)

Arion Gábor Kudász (MOME Budapest)

Tamás Marcell (MOME Budapest)

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The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava and was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Statutory City of Ostrava.