Previous Programs

Current Exhibition Monthly Programme (pdf)

May/08

Main Hall

FFS - FISE - FKSE - KIMDSZ

„Ha csak rajtunk múlna” – Fórum a kortárs művészeti terület újraszervezéséről

#kulturpolitika #forum #erdekkepviselet

May/07

90'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Szabó Veronika

Kingdom

"Why do we feel that our fathers did not love us enough?"

May/04

70'

DANCE

Cabin

Imre Vass

READING THE ROOM

"The 'room' is autonomous and erratic. Only the ones who are willing to step across the threshold and lean closer towards it will hear its message."

May/01

90'

DANCE

Main Hall

Csaba Molnár - Tamara Zsófia Vadas - Imre Vass

game changer 2.2 – The Day of the Axe

A balta napja a Lábán- és Halász Péter-díjas game changer 1.0 méltó folytatása.

Apr/30

90'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Péter Kárpáti & friends

Scabby Dog

A visionary folklore of sin. Péter Kárpáti’s latest play explores the deep psychological dimensions of violence

Apr/29

110'

THEATRE

Club

Peter Handke / Sára Sahin-Tóth

Kaspar

Kaspar is the repulsive, the incomprehensible, a deficient being.

Apr/28

70'

DANCE

Cabin

Imre Vass

READING THE ROOM

"The 'room' is autonomous and erratic. Only the ones who are willing to step across the threshold and lean closer towards it will hear its message."

Apr/27

110'

THEATRE

Club

Peter Handke / Sára Sahin-Tóth

Kaspar

Kaspar is the repulsive, the incomprehensible, a deficient being.

90'

DANCE

Studio

Open Studio

Led by Boglárka Börcsök and Andreas Bolm

Once a month, on Mondays, Trafó opens its Liliom Street dance studio to all those who love to move.

Apr/25

MUSIC

Main Hall

UH Fest and Trafó presents

Xexa (PT, Príncipe) /Mariam Rezaei (UK, Heat Crimes) / Bója / Bölöni/Kovács-Vajda/Lichter: The Thing Is Alive! / Eszelős meszelős

180'

Club

work-free-time / Dávid Somló

Ritual Study #4: Deeply respected nourishment

How can we form part of a community even if the others are strangers?

Apr/24

85'

PERFORMANCE

Club

Performance time change

MAGICAL DEER and the gravity

What is home? And what does it mean to arrive?

Guided tour with Máté Hulesch

Apr/22

60'

PERFORMANCE

Club

Haibo Illés - Maja Juhász - Luca Kovács - Richárd Melykó

tap for more

“We are shaking the supporting structures of Hungarian sexual hegemony. Piece by piece, we dismantle them."

Apr/21

55’

DANCE

Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Júlia Vavra

D E F A U L T M O D E N E T W O R K

Ten performers diving into their internal tasks. Images emerge from a dreamlike dramaturgy.

Apr/20

100'

THEATRE

Club

Lilla Szauer

nd Why Is The Night - LAST PERFORMANCE AT TRAFÓ

How does memory work when something happens that shouldn't have happened?

100'

THEATRE

Studio

dollardaddy's – Emőke Kiss-Végh

About a Naughtiness

Apr/18

120'

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS

Main Hall

MUCH Circus Festival

MUCH More Showcase

Much More Showcase is a vibrant palette of the local and regional contemporary circus scene.

30'

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS

Club

MUCH / Darragh McLoughlin (IE)

The Fulfilment

The Fulfilment is a modular, audience-driven performance built around a simple mechanic: a pile of empty frames, and a series of titles.

Apr/17

60'

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS

Main Hall

MUCH / Eliška Brtnická (CZ)

Thin Skin

The fragility and vulnerability of the iron rod can only be felt through thin skin. Meditative movement installation, images that burn into the retina of your eye.

45'

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS

Main Hall

MUCH / Darragh McLoughlin (IE)

Stickman

Stickman is a performance with three protagonists: a man, a stick and a television.

Apr/16

60'

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS

Main Hall

MUCH / Diana Salles (BR/FR)

Delusional - I killed a man

A heart-stopping circus show unravels the profound beauty of self-discovery on a trans woman’s path.

30'

CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS

Main Hall

MUCH Circus Festival

Opening gala

No long opening speeches are to be expected - let the local circus speak for itself!

Trafóclub

Book launch

Sándor Hornyik: Dark Iconology

The book will be presented by art historian Sándor Hornyik and aesthete, critic, and poet Z. Márió Nemes.

Apr/14

55'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Collective of Natural Disasters

PARADOX OF BEING

#floating #collective memory #absence

Apr/13

55'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Collective of Natural Disasters

PARADOX OF BEING

#floating #collective memory #absence

Apr/12

Nehru part

MUCH / Cie Circographie (FR)

Au Café Des Nonchalants

While waiting for MUCH Festival and the election results, this is an afternoon together with your kids, dogs, neighbours, free of charge.

Nehru part

MUCH / OneTwoMany Collective (HU/DE

Don't Forget To Breathe

While waiting for MUCH Festival and the election results, this is an afternoon together with your kids, dogs, neighbours, free of charge.

Apr/11

60'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Soharóza – Dóra Halas – Fruzsina Nagy – Márk Bartha

Taboo collection

The body, sex, gender, disease, blood, death, disturbing nursery rhymes.

Apr/10

60'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Soharóza – Dóra Halas – Fruzsina Nagy – Márk Bartha

Taboo collection

The body, sex, gender, disease, blood, death, disturbing nursery rhymes.

Trafó Gallery

exhibition opening

Andi Schmied: Asset Town

Opening remarks by artist Miklós Erhardt.

Apr/08

110'

THEATRE

Club

Orsolya Fodor - Péter Varsányi

Capitalism for Children

“The economy is too important to leave to the economists.” (Yanis Varoufakis)

Apr/06

70'

THEATRE

Club

Gizella Gálhidy & Boglárka Ferenczy-Nagy

Liturgy

What does it mean to be a woman today, not only in this profession, but in this country, this society?

Apr/02

90'

THEATRE

Main Hall

Szabó Veronika

Kingdom

"Why do we feel that our fathers did not love us enough?"

Mar/31

120' with one break

THEATRE

Main Hall

Thomas Köck (AT) / BpSkizo

Beyond Fukuyama

Have we truly arrived at the best of all possible worlds, or have power structures simply been rearranged around us?

Mar/30

70'

THEATRE

Club

Gizella Gálhidy & Boglárka Ferenczy-Nagy

Liturgy

What does it mean to be a woman today, not only in this profession, but in this country, this society?

Mar/29

110'

THEATRE

Club

Peter Handke / Sára Sahin-Tóth

Kaspar

Kaspar is the repulsive, the incomprehensible, a deficient being.

210’

Main Hall

CTRL+ALT+CRIP magazine launch

BECOMING CRIP

CTRL+ALT+CRIP celebrates the first issue of its print and digital magazine!

Mar/28

60'

DANCE

Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Valentin Alfery (AT)

SLOW BURNER

SLOW BURNER is a choreographed jigsaw puzzle that invites the audience into a space of perceiving how human impulses, encounters and interrelationships shape the world we move through.

Mar/27

60'

DANCE

Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Valentin Alfery (AT)

SLOW BURNER

SLOW BURNER is a choreographed jigsaw puzzle that invites the audience into a space of perceiving how human impulses, encounters and interrelationships shape the world we move through.

Mar/26

60'

Club

Irene Plaque

HOLD.me - PREMIERE

HOLD.me examines the high-contrast terrain of contemporary alignment, exploring phenomena such as touchless interaction, superficial wellness, and the convenience of inaction.

Mar/25

60'

Club

Irene Plaque

HOLD.me - PREMIERE

HOLD.me examines the high-contrast terrain of contemporary alignment, exploring phenomena such as touchless interaction, superficial wellness, and the convenience of inaction.

Mar/22

75'

THEATRE

Main Hall

work-free-time / Gábor Thury – Lili Thury – Zita Thury

Notorious Work Dodgers - last performance at Trafó!

Critical, empowering and joyful community theatre on the relationship between labor and leisure.

90'

Club

work-free-time / Haibo Illés - Maja Juhász - Luca Kovács - Richárd Melykó

tap for less – zero-waste conference by the creators of tap for more

The artists will share what tap for more has not yet been able to process, or may never be able to.

11:00-16:00

Outdoors event.

work-free-time / Witch Club

Forest Time - program by Thought Generator

Where do we learn the kinds of knowledge that are not taught in institutions, yet are essential for survival?

Mar/21

60'

PERFORMANCE

Club

work-free-time / Haibo Illés - Maja Juhász - Luca Kovács - Richárd Melykó

tap for more

“We are shaking the supporting structures of Hungarian sexual hegemony. Piece by piece, we dismantle them."

17.00-24.00

Main Hall

work-free-time / Trafó Sanatorium

Sweet Idleness

Part of Trafó’s transdisciplinary focus work-free-time.

Mar/20

60'

PERFORMANCE

Club

work-free-time / Haibo Illés - Maja Juhász - Luca Kovács - Richárd Melykó

tap for more - PREMIERE

“We are shaking the supporting structures of Hungarian sexual hegemony. Piece by piece, we dismantle them."

Trafó Gallery

work-free-time / SZ.A.F. (Judit Fischer and Miklós Mécs)

Award Ceremony

17.00-24.00

Main Hall

work-free-time / Trafó Sanatorium

Sweet Idleness

Part of Trafó’s transdisciplinary focus work-free-time.

Mar/17

Trafó Gallery

Guided tour with art historian Péter Kőhalmi and exhibiting artists

Mar/16

90'

Studio

work-free-time / Open Studio

Led by Dorottya Vékony

Once a month, on Mondays, Trafó opens its Liliom Street dance studio to all those who love to move.

Mar/15

120'

THEATRE

Main Hall

work-free-time / dollardaddy’s / Emőke Kiss-Végh - Tamás Ördög

let’s go japan with the kids

In their latest performance, the founders of dollardaddy’s push at the boundaries between work and private life, as artists and as parents.

90'

Club

work-free-time / Artist Parents Hungary

Artist Parents - Child-friendly forum and playtime led by Margit Koller and Barbara Mihályi - SOLD OUT

#dilemma #care #timemanagement

180'

Studio

work-free-time / Dávid Somló

Ritual Study #3: Faith in Symbols, Freedom in Restrictions

How can we form part of a community even if the others are strangers?

Mar/14

75'

DANCE, THEATRE

Main Hall

work-free-time / Eisa Jocson - Venuri Perera (PH/LK/NL)

Magic Maids

A visually arresting performance, Magic Maids interconnects the figures of the witch and the maid, transforming the broom from a cleaning tool into a symbol of resistance.

16:00-19:30

Club

work-free-time / Work Forum #2: Time to Organise! - On self-organising, advocacy and unions

Zsófia Rebeka Kozma / Kristóf Kelemen - Zita Rihay-Kovács (SZIDOSZ) - András Végső (Vasasok) / Union of Fine Artists, Applied Artists and Art Workers / Gólya Movement Choir

It’s time to join forces!

11:00-16:00

Outdoors event.

work-free-time / Witch Club

Forest Time - program by Thought Generator

Where do we learn the kinds of knowledge that are not taught in institutions, yet are essential for survival?

Mar/13

75'

DANCE, THEATRE

Main Hall

CANCELLED! work-free-time / Eisa Jocson - Venuri Perera (PH/LK/NL)

Magic Maids

A visually arresting performance, Magic Maids interconnects the figures of the witch and the maid, transforming the broom from a cleaning tool into a symbol of resistance.

17:00-19:30

Foyer, Club, Cabin

work-free-time / Balázs Antal & László Hatházi & Sasu Korom / Veronika Szabó & Júlia Vavra (Mani Me) / Bence György Pálinkás & Tímea Török (Pressure!) / Couriers' League