CO.LABS is an open, creative and independent cultural platform located in the Sokol Stadium building on Kounicova Street in Brno. It serves as a shared space for independent artists and collectives working in performing, music and visual arts. The centre offers rehearsal rooms, performance halls, an outdoor park with a stage, a bar and artist residency accommodation. Following a major EU-funded renovation (totalling 92.3 million CZK), it reopened at the end of 2025.
Kounicova 686/22, 602 00 Brno
Opening hours follow the event programme
A performative installation exploring childhood memories and personal identity, created by Joa Ferfecki and Marie Měkotová for PLATZforma and the PLÁCEK Festival.
A dance piece by Aneta Holíková exploring the interplay between individual and collective experience through movement. A 30-minute performance.
A surreal polar adventure about three beings seeking common ground during the polar night. Experimental premiere blending visual design with synth ambient glitch drone soundscape.
Dance ensemble HRADIŠŤAN and CM Smetanka present a programme exploring ancient king-rides and traditional games connected to Whitsunday celebrations across Moravia, Silesia, and Bohemia.
A theatrical performance exploring new religious movements through a parody of a television game show. Audiences will discover the rituals, hierarchies, and motivations behind cults in an entertaining and provocative format.
World premiere of a theatrical production about human dependence on systems and mutual care. Directed by Alexandra Horoščák Bolfová, starring Ondřej Kolín and Daniel Rampáček.
The percussion dance group Cloggers presents a full-length show of American step, music, and humor. Dancers create their own sounds using footwork, props, and audience participation in this 75-minute performance inspired by Lord of the Dance and Stomp.
A solo dance performance exploring personal and political dimensions of embodiment, care, and fatigue in contemporary life. A choreographic encounter with one's own dance history.
A physical performance merging dance with watercolor art. Creators Viktória Anna Lesayová and Marie Štěpánová debut their new project at Co.Labs.
The fifth edition of SONDA Sound Festival brings experimental music and sound art to Brno's CO.LABS. Swiss and Czech artists perform alongside an exhibition of sound art installations.
Brno premiere of Peter Šavel's choreography exploring how dance emerges and connects people. What the Folk seeks contemporary forms of folk dance through natural movement and rhythm.
World premiere of the opera Empty House about a family in a religious community and a girl who begins to question her faith. Directed by Kateřina Křivánková, music by Adam Závodský.
An informal closing gathering for festival artists, organizers, and the public at Co.Labs.
A masterclass with Italian instructor Elia Moretti on listening as active practice. Through exercises and improvisation, participants explore sound as a choreographic principle and listening as embodied expression.
A creative sound workshop for the youngest children led by Italian-French musician Rosa Parlato. Two age groups: babies with parents (9:00-9:30) and children from 3 years old (10:00-11:00) play with sounds, movement and improvisation.
An original solo by British choreographer Julyen Hamilton, performing in Brno for the first time. Created through instant choreography, the piece explores anonymity, identity and collectivity.
An outdoor music concert as part of the international Immediatus Biennale 2026 festival, held in the Co.Labs park in Brno.
A live dance and music performance created through instant composition, bringing together local and international artists in a unique encounter.
Moderated discussion with artists from Immediatus Biennale 2026 at Co.Labs. An opportunity to meet and exchange views.
Thursday programme of the Immediatus Biennale 2026 festival featuring a dance-music performance and a concert in the park.
A dance and music performance created through instant composition, the first of the festival's constellations. The opening ceremony follows in the CO.LABS Café.
A contemporary dance and live music performance exploring the boundary between culture and nature through movement and sound, created by the Brno collective corpo mira.
An original musical about love and freedom set against 17th-century rural Bohemia. A young man chooses to abandon his fate and follow comedians while his village faces drought and fanaticism.
An experimental theatrical essay by the Medúza collective that examines the life and hidden stories of Brno's main railway station underpass through site-specific performance art.
Czech premiere of the dance performance LIMINAL combines contemporary dance and live music in dialogue with place. A research project exploring relationships between culture and nature through body, movement, and liminal spaces.
The theatre studio INSIDE presents the exhibition Wings, featuring poetry by Ukrainian classical and contemporary authors exploring love, eternity and human existence.
Live concert by Dazzled at CO.LABS in Brno.
An original theatrical production about women's experiences and discrimination, presented by three actresses from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The play draws on real testimonies and asks why women in everyday life remain constrained by fear and inequality.
A concert journey through Moravian and Slovak folk traditions, featuring an orchestra of traditional instruments and girls' choir performing lyrical and spirited arrangements.
A student orchestra performs live music from Kill Bill, with an original story about a sacred sword, loss and revenge told through dance and shadow theatre unfolding around the compositions.
Premiere of the dance piece Check-in by the check.in ensemble, which explores through movement the relationship between individual experience and group dynamics. Choreography and direction by Aneta Holíková.
A theatrical production about three female architects and the price of care, centred on the life of Růžena Žertová and her final wishes. It explores questions about the value of buildings, last will, and the invisible labour of women.
Japanese kyogen master Shigeyama Motohiko performs with the Czech ensemble Theatre Kyogen to mark 30 years of their collaboration. The programme features three classical plays of this traditional Japanese theatrical genre.
Students of Iveta Rivero will perform authentic Spanish dance and premiere a new project featuring three dancers.
An original musical about finding your place in the world. The First Smile ensemble presents Mission with original music, dance, and queer themes as part of Brno Pride Week.
Live recording of the popular Czech podcast Kanárci v síti, hosted by Saša Alvarová and Josef Holý in Brno.
A participatory theatrical composition about identity that combines physical theatre, slam poetry, and philosophy. Audiences are gently and playfully drawn into direct dialogue with the creators.
Ensemble Opera Diversa brings a playful cycle of three mini-operas for children, where ghosts encounter the urban world. Humorous stories about mysterious creatures in trams, parks, and shopping centres will delight young audiences.
A puppet opera by Ensemble Opera Diversa about a mouse named Boža who stumbles into an enchanted kingdom of puppets. An adventure filled with love, friendship, and the music of Bohuslav Martinů.
An original opera production for children and adults where Libuše, Rusalka, and Liška Bystrouška meet and save the world together. A thrilling journey through the world of opera heroines.
The second exhibition in the 2026 cycle explores how social structures, economic pressures, and technological changes are inscribed into the body and environment through contemporary installations.
A public debate on social and political issues featuring journalists and commentators. The discussion is moderated by Barbora Kroužková.