LIGHT FACTORY: The exhibition 2026 ⧗⧗⧗
⧗⧗⧗ Monumental light installations inside the abandoned Inota Thermal Power Plant. ⧗⧗⧗
From 13–24 August, Hungary's most spectacular light art exhibition returns to the former Inota Thermal Power Plant. LIGHT FACTORY: The Exhibition is not only a breathtaking visual experience but also a unique opportunity to explore one of the country's most extraordinary industrial heritage sites.
Schedule
◉ About the Exhibition ◉
From 13–24 August 2026, LIGHT FACTORY: The Exhibition returns to the former Inota Thermal Power Plant with an entirely new selection of large-scale artworks, once again opening up its monumental spaces to create Hungary's largest continuous industrial exhibition venue.
During the exhibition, the former power plant is transformed into an extraordinary contemporary art destination. Vast halls, cooling towers, boiler rooms and outdoor industrial spaces become immersive environments where light, sound, moving image and site-specific interventions reshape the monumental architecture.
Visitors can explore one of Hungary's most remarkable industrial heritage sites, including the iconic Turbine Hall, the Boiler Hall, the surroundings of the cooling towers and the plant's outdoor spaces, where contemporary light art and monumental industrial architecture merge to create a world that is at once futuristic, raw and timeless.
◉ Artists ◉
In 2026, the exhibition returns with site-specific installations and new works by Hungarian and international artists, each created in dialogue with the unique character of the power plant's extraordinary spaces. Together, these works demonstrate the many ways in which light can become a tool for reimagining and transforming space.
Artists: Sven Sauer / MAOTIK / Lukas Truniger & Bruce Yoder / Cape Sante (Andrea Maioli & Leandro Summo) / Anni Kinnunen / Radiante Lab / Timaeus / Adistu / Emma Forgách / Péter Weiler...
The list of participating artists is not yet complete.
◉ Details & Tickets ◉
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.
