Turner Prize 2025

The visual identity for the Turner Prize 2025 is rooted in fragmented beauty. Rather than presenting something pristine, perfect, and whole, the design embraces imperfection. Layers of scattered circular cut-outs create glimpses of what lies beneath, revealing beauty and intrigue through what is partially hidden. Every gap, every crack, becomes an invitation to look again—closer—and to reconsider what might otherwise be overlooked.

From these openings emerge bursts of vibrant colour, artworks, messages, or viewpoints—sometimes shifting with the viewer’s perspective. They reward moments of unexpected discovery to those who linger and take a closer look through. This becomes a visual metaphor for the city of Bradford, the host of the Turner Prize 2025: A city with depth and richness that, until now, has been too often overlooked.

This visual strategy continues the studio’s ongoing ethos, seen in their work for Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, to reflect Bradford as it is: unfiltered, eclectic, and proudly its own.

While the idea of fragmented layers and gaps was later translated into digital 3D graphics (in collaboration with artist Joseph Töreki), Rabbithole’s core focus was on making layering and cut-outs as physical and tangible as possible across applications. Die-cut holes in the exhibition brochure reveal glimpses through multiple folded layers. Information boards overlap wall text. A Timeline wall display is constructed from multiple stacked components, rather than a single flat graphic.

The implementation of the Turner Prize 2025 identity was comprehensive, encompassing out-of-home posters and billboards, a bus cover, printed brochures, video idents, a physical entrance hall display, exhibition labels, and more.

The Turner Prize 2025 visual identity is deliberately vibrant and playful, designed to resonate with a broad and diverse audience—including local Bradfordians who might not usually consider attending the Turner Prize. The challenge was clear: speak to both the artworld-initiated and the casually curious. By avoiding lofty or overly polished design tropes, the joyful Turner Prize 2025 identity invites and welcomes all who encounter it.

The Turner Prize has long been a stage for challenge, debate, and transformation. Rabbithole’s 2025 design carries those values forward, rooting them in the character of Bradford—a city of renewal, striking contrasts, and cultural depth. The new identity invites audiences to engage not only with contemporary art, but also with the city itself.

The Turner Prize 2025 exhibition will be open from 27 September 2025 to 22 February 2026 at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. Admission is free. The winner will be announced on 9 December 2025 at an award ceremony in Bradford.