Current Exhibition Monthly Programme (pdf)

Oct/18

150’ with one break
Off-site location!

Boglárka Börcsök - Andreas Bolm - Orsolya Török-Illyés

SENSE INTO NONSENSE
„True death has to be earned with life – that is why I still live” E FvLH

Oct/17

50'
DANCE
Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Marie Gyselbrecht (BE)

ORBIT
The season-opening choreography of the sixth generation of SUB.LAB.PRO’s ensemble program is created by Marie Gyselbrecht from Belgium.

Oct/16

50'
DANCE
Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Marie Gyselbrecht (BE)

ORBIT
The season-opening choreography of the sixth generation of SUB.LAB.PRO’s ensemble program is created by Marie Gyselbrecht from Belgium.

Oct/14

100'
THEATRE
Club

Orsolya Fodor - Péter Varsányi

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

Oct/13

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?

Oct/11

110'
THEATRE
Club

Peter Handke / Sára Sahin-Tóth

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

Oct/10

60'
DANCE
Main Hall

Central Europe Dance Theatre, SÍN Arts Centre and Trafó presents:

Máté Mészáros: All Under the Sun
In Máté Mészáros’s choreography, contemporary dance is not a counterpoint to tradition, but its extension.

Oct/09

60'
DANCE
Main Hall

Central Europe Dance Theatre, SÍN Arts Centre and Trafó presents:

Máté Mészáros: All Under the Sun - PREMIERE
In Máté Mészáros’s choreography, contemporary dance is not a counterpoint to tradition, but its extension.

Oct/07

110'
THEATRE
Club

Peter Handke / Sára Sahin-Tóth

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

Oct/05

75'
PERFORMANCE
Kabin

Noémi Noya Szántusz

Poetry Performance - Homesick in Calm Seas
What happens to a poem when we set it free? A literary performance series where poetry meets theatre, music and visual art. This time, Noémi Noya Szántusz is joined by co-creator Péter Mendel.

Oct/03

240'
MUSIC
Main Hall

UH Fest 2026 and Trafó presents

Mestizx (NL/BO/US) - Gosheven Galangolong (HU) - Radio Hito (IT/BE)
Organized by UH Fest in collaboration with Trafó
120'
WORKSHOP
Trafó Gallery + Trafó Cabin

Gondolat Generátor

Trafó+1
Trafó+1 is a new community around Trafó. We come together around selected Trafó programmes.
Trafó Gallery


Rise and shine

Oct/02

65'
DANCE
Main Hall

gergő d. farkas

rascal
gergő d. farkas’s latest work drifts through a place of continuous emergence; a nebulous, yet sensual world where bodies feel a little more and love a little harder.
Trafó Gallery

Cooking Sections: the House that Pigs built of the 

Curatorial guided tour
Guided tour by Judit Szalipszki

Oct/01

65'
DANCE
Main Hall

gergő d. farkas

rascal
gergő d. farkas’s latest work drifts through a place of continuous emergence; a nebulous, yet sensual world where bodies feel a little more and love a little harder.

Sep/30

90'
THEATRE
Club

Péter Kárpáti & friends

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

Sep/28

240'
MUSIC
Main Hall

UH Fest 2026 and Trafó presents

Leila Bordreuil (FR/US) - Kerosene Sneeze (BE/FR/UK) - Viktor Lois (HU/US)
Organized by UH Fest in collaboration with Trafó

Sep/27

60'
PERFORMANCE
Outside location, meeting point: Trafó

Rural–Urban Relations / Myriam Lefkowitz (FR)

Walk, Hands, Eyes (Budapest)
Walks start at: 13:00, 13:30, 15:00, 15:30, 17:00, 17:30

Sep/26

60'
PERFORMANCE
Outside location, meeting point: Trafó

Rural–Urban Relations / Myriam Lefkowitz (FR)

Walk, Hands, Eyes (Budapest)
Walks start at: 13:00, 13:30, 15:00, 15:30, 17:00, 17:30
9:00–23:00
PERFORMANCE BUS
Off-site locations, departure from Trafó

Rural–Urban Relations / PerformanceBus

Third trip – Let’s go to Lakitelek and Tiszazug!
PerformanceBus is back on the road in Trafó’s 2026/2027 season!

Sep/25

270'
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Burattino School – Szimfolk Music Workshop – Nóra Horváth & Balázs Oláh

Debate theater - Concert - BALL
On this day, youth workshops from different regions of Hungary come together at Trafó to discuss, make music, and open up their working methods to a wider audience.
60'
PERFORMANCE
Outside location, meeting point: Trafó

Rural–Urban Relations / Myriam Lefkowitz (FR)

Walk, Hands, Eyes (Budapest)
Walks start at: 14:00, 14:30, 16:00, 16:30, 18:00, 18:30

Sep/24

45'
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Péter Ajtai

Anthony Braxton in Győr
A concert-infused trip across different time periods, revolving around the story of Anthony Braxton’s 1982 concert in Győr and a legendary preserves exhibition.
25'
PERFORMANCE
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Csaba Molnár & Nicole Clore

HOME IS A DRAG
Nicole Clore visits Ragyolc, the village where her friend, mentee and long-term partner Csaba grew up. A meeting between a home, a village and a body.

Sep/20

45'
MUSIC
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Care Center (Éva Bárdits & Márton Bertók)

Becoming Peasant
It’s a rare treat to hear Éva Bárdits’ and Márton Bertók’s duo perform live: together they inhabit Iza Tarasewicz’s large-scale installation in Trafó’s Main Hall.
75'
PERFORMANCE
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / József Mélyi & László Hevesi

Statue March - The Afterlives of János Szántó Kovács
Lecture performance with elements of prose, poetry, music and dance that traces the history and the afterlives of an almost forgotten social movement: agrarian socialism in Hungary. Only in Hungarian!
60'
PERFORMANCE
Outside location, meeting point: Trafó

Rural–Urban Relations / Myriam Lefkowitz (FR)

Walk, Hands, Eyes (Budapest)
Walks start at: 13:00, 13:30, 15:00, 15:30, 17:00, 17:30

Sep/19

Trafó Gallery, Main hall

Cooking Sections: the House that Pigs built

Conversation between Cooking Sections and Hannah Landecker
Conversation between Cooking Sections and historian and social scientist Hannah Landecker about their collaboration on the House that Pigs Built
240'
conversation
Main Hall

Rural-Urban Relations / Forces of Production

Landscape tasting and talk about rural–urban alliances
On the second day of the focus, we invite you to a discussion, forum, and ‘landscape tasting’.
Ongoing throughout focus events in the Main Hall.
VISUAL ARTS
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Iza Tarasewicz & Justyna Stasiowska (PL)

Revelation of Powers
Eastern European folklore, ears of wheat, peasant barricades, agricultural machinery freed from slavery—all of this in Trafó’s black and neat theater hall.
60'
PERFORMANCE
Outside location, meeting point: Trafó

Rural–Urban Relations / Myriam Lefkowitz (FR)

Walk, Hands, Eyes (Budapest)
Walks start at: 13:00, 13:30, 15:00, 15:30, 17:00, 17:30

Sep/18

60'
conversation
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Artist Talk with the participating artists

Iza Tarasewicz, Justyna Stasiowska, Cooking Sections, Csakoda group (Dominika Trapp, Márton Dés)
Following Iza Tarasewicz’s installation opening and Justyna Stasiowska’s sound performance, we invite you to an artist talk with all artists participating in the focus’ opening event.
15'
conversation
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Opening Speech

Adrienn Csepelyi
Author and journalist Adrienn Csepelyi will open the focus with a short speech, moving between rural and urban realities.
40'
VISUAL ARTS
Main Hall

Rural–Urban Relations / Iza Tarasewicz & Justyna Stasiowska (PL)

Revelation of Powers
Eastern European folklore, ears of wheat, peasant barricades, agricultural machinery freed from slavery—all of this in Trafó’s black and neat theater hall.
Trafó Gallery

Rural–Urban Relations / Cooking Sections

the House that Pigs built
The Cooking Sections exhibition invites us to reconsider our relationship with industrial livestock farming and pigs. Where does the pig end, and where do we begin?
Installation on view throughout the focus events.
VISUAL ARTS
Foyer

Rural–Urban Relations / Csakoda group

Csakoda Retrospective (2011–2017)
“Questioning existing structures and striving for independence are always relevant, regardless of the political situation or the prevailing public mood.” (Interview with Dominika Trapp)
Installation on view throughout the focus events.
Club

Rural–Urban Relations / Antje Schiffers & Thomas Sprenger (DE)

I like being a farmer and I would like to stay one
For 26 years, Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger have engaged in a barter trade with farmers.
60'
PERFORMANCE
Outside location, meeting point: Trafó Cabin

Rural–Urban Relations / Myriam Lefkowitz (FR)

Walk, Hands, Eyes (Budapest)
Walks start at: 14:00, 14:30, 16:00, 16:30, 18:00, 18:30
Trafó & across the city and the country.

Focus: RURAL-URBAN RELATIONS

Two weekends of transdisciplinary art
How do the realities and life situations we encounter, the choices and opportunities available to us depend on where we live?

Sep/17

120'
WORKSHOP
Studio

Rural-Urban Relations / Open Studio

Led by Myriam Lefkowitz
Once a month, Trafó opens its Liliom Street dance studio to all those who love to move.

Sep/14

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?

Sep/12



A meztelen igazság. Meddig mehetünk el a feltárulkozásban?
90'
DANCE, THEATRE
Main Hall

Marina Otero (AR/ES)

Kill Me
Five dancers on a mission to kill romantic love before it kills them

Sep/11

90'
Foyer

Trafó Season Opening Party

Latin American Cumbia Night
90'
DANCE, THEATRE
Main Hall

Marina Otero (AR/ES)

Kill Me
Five dancers on a mission to kill romantic love before it kills them. Argentine choreographer Marina Otero shows her internationally acclaimed work in Budapest for the first time!

Jun/12

Trafó Gallery

Andi Schmied: Asset Town

Guided tour with László Szily

Jun/06

Fórum a kortárs művészeti terület újraszervezéséről II.

„Ha csak rajtunk múlna”

May/31

180'
External location

Dávid Somló

Ritual Study #5: Refuge in the Masses
How can we form part of a community even if the others are strangers?

May/30

18:00-24:00
Main Hall

Anybody Walking x Kristóf Kelemen & Attila Lestyán x Trafó

Budapest is Burning kiki ball Trafó season finale
Be present as members of the Hungarian and international ballroom community set Budapest and the stage of Trafó House of Contemporary Arts ablaze!

May/29

~60'
DANCE
Main Hall

Viktor Szeri

Reigen
Encounters, fleeting visions, and mysterious bodies appear and disappear in the smoke.

May/28

60'
Előtér

 

Rudolf Lábán Award 2026
~60'
DANCE
Main Hall

Viktor Szeri

Reigen
Encounters, fleeting visions, and mysterious bodies appear and disappear in the smoke.
Club

A Lábán Rudolf-díj kuratóriuma bemutatja

Mi lesz veled kortárs tánc?
A 21. Lábán Rudolf-díj átadása kapcsán szakmai napot szervez a kuratórium a kortárs tánc jelenéről és jövőjéről.

May/26

60'
Foyer

Péter Halász Prize Award Ceremony

For the years 2022-2023 and 2024-2025
Újra kiosztja a Halász Péter-díjat a szakmai kuratórium! Visszamenőleg kétszer két díjat ítéltek oda a 2022–2023-as és 2024–2025-ös évekre.
85'
PERFORMANCE
Club

 

MAGICAL DEER and the gravity
What is home? And what does it mean to arrive?

May/25

100'
THEATRE
Studio

dollardaddy's – Emőke Kiss-Végh

About a Naughtiness
180'
Main Hall & External location

Open Studio

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

May/22

60'
DANCE
Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Magnus Westwell (SCO/UK)

Undertow
Magnus Westwell, the young Scottish talent of Sadler’s Wells, a key venue for contemporary dance in London, is arriving to create the SUB.LAB.PRO ensemble’s last choreography for this season.

May/21

60'
DANCE
Main Hall

SUB.LAB.PRO / Magnus Westwell (SCO/UK)

Undertow
Magnus Westwell, the young Scottish talent of Sadler’s Wells, a key venue for contemporary dance in London, is arriving to create the SUB.LAB.PRO ensemble’s last choreography for this season.
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  • Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 4pm-7pm.
  • Performance days: 4pm-10pm.
  • Closed on Mondays.
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