Light Factory: The exhibition
2025-08-15T16:00:00.000Z - 2025-08-24T21:00:00.000Z
Since its 2023 debut, INOTA – set in a decommissioned socialist power plant – has rapidly become one of the most distinctive audiovisual festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. From the very beginning, the organisers have been actively envisioning the site's long-term cultural revitalisation.
Reflecting this vision, the project reaches a new milestone in 2025: between August 15–24, the entire area will be open to the public for the first time, marking the launch of INOTA’s first large-scale light art exhibition, open daily from 6 to 11 PM. With this, the power plant is set to become Hungary’s largest industrial exhibition space.
The FÉNYERŐMŰ (LIGHT FACTORY) exhibition builds on the conceptual ambition of previous editions but now expands it to an even more monumental and complex scale: over 20 light- and visual art installations from 7 countries will be on display. Among them are site-specific, large-scale works created especially for the unique spaces of the power plant – including the iconic Turbine Hall, the depths of the Boiler Room, and even the cooling towers.
The exhibition is designed to offer a memorable experience for all generations – including a dedicated Family Day on August 23 – and will also be accessible during the INOTA Festival itself, which returns with its forward-thinking electronic music programme from August 28–30.
Aug
15
Aug
24
Schedule
ARTISTS:
- Vincent Rang
- Besnyő Dániel + Kálmán Mátyás
- Sasha Kojjio
- Metzing Eszter + Zságer-Mészáros Szandra
- Konstantina Tompoulidou
- Azúr Kinga + Herczeg Tamás
- Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol::
- Sztojánovits Andrea
- Niko Tiainen
- Robin Beekman
- Liliane Spielmann + Karcis Gábor
- SpY
- Collectif Scale
- Alberto Novello
- Vigh Violetta
- Varga Zoltán
- Bordos László Zsolt
Location
INOTA POWER PLANT
The Inota thermal power plant was the largest industrial investment in Hungary in the 1950s, and at its peak, it could have provided street lighting and tram traffic for the whole of Budapest. Its three huge, illustrious cooling towers are not only familiar to anyone who drives to Lake Balaton from the capital, but it is also worth knowing that their novel water-cooled technology was a revolutionary innovation at the time, winning engineers László Heller and László Forgó the Grand Prix at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition. It was thanks to Inota that these horn-shaped cooling towers soon became widespread throughout the world.
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