Experience routes

Beside the traditional genre-based recommendations, this year the program of Budapest Autumn Festival can be browsed and enjoyed along thematic conceptions as well. We recommend nine experience routes to visitors who are curious about independent creative minds, an opportunity to participate, to discover the city, community stories, foreign artists and local characteristics.

#Windowonbartók

The stories of 100-year-old houses, contemporary installations and games for skills development open up numerous unique views of the unknown landscapes of Bartók Béla Street, the high street of Újbuda, gaining more and more popularity, and its vicinity.

Johannes Bellinx (NL): Reverse
Johannes Bellinx (NL): Reverse
dimension changing workshop
Budapest100 Special Edition
Budapest100 Special Edition
architectural-cultural festival in Bartók Béla Street
TAKE-AWAY
TAKE-AWAY
pop-up concert
SpreadKOM
SpreadKOM
a walk in the park

#Józsefvárosofathousandvoices

In District VIII, every story, every tune, every taste and colour make us richer, be it Hungarian, Jewish, Gypsy, Greek, Arab, male or female – because here every voice matters.

I. Józsefváros Jazz Festival
“To your homeland without fail”
“To your homeland without fail”
photo exhibition in memoriam Károly Bura
UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA
UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA
performance, discussion
Dancing Square
Dancing Square
Dance Minifestival

#Daydreamers

Works of art interpreting the contradictions and connections of contemporary existence, the craze of a continuous present. Dependable and surprising sources of inspiration, from all branches of art.

Jancsó100!
Jancsó100!
The opening event of Budapest Autumn Festival in in honour of Miklós Jancsó’s 100th birthday
Thirty-three Dreams
Thirty-three Dreams
premiere directed by Viktor Bodó
Tiles, Half Asleep
Tiles, Half Asleep
Mészöly in the synagogue
MetRumBach
MetRumBach
Metrum eve based on Ádám Kondor’s and László Krasznahorkai’s works

#Thecastleofbrilliantminds

In its cultural institutions with unique features, the Municipality of Budavár evokes the art of geniuses of their own times while it also helps the voices of local people to be heard.

Spot Designated for Absence – Dezső Tandori’s presence(s)
Spot Designated for Absence – Dezső Tandori’s presence(s)
Dezső Tandori and Ágnes Tandori memorial exhibition
An Outing to Paradise
An Outing to Paradise
What does Dante show us? Tour guide: Ádám Nádasdy
EP33Haydn
EP33Haydn
Performance for violin, violoncello and skull
Stories from District One
Stories from District One
participatory theatre workshop and performance

#Movingtogether

Events encouraging participation and interactivity to be enjoyed outside of your comfort zone, even while moving around

The City as a Theatre
The City as a Theatre
- and life is the best written play
(D)open your move festival
(D)open your move festival
Urban dance and contemporary dance reunion
Dancing Square
Dancing Square
Dance Minifestival
YOU ARE NOW!
YOU ARE NOW!
Flying Bodies and ALL CAPS’s street art festival – the closing event of Budapest Autumn Festival

#Welcomeculture

Budapest is part of Europe’s cultural blood circulation: it welcomes home our fellow countrymen creating art abroad and is in a dialogue with international artworks.

Yes’s and No’s
Yes’s and No’s
Ferenc Fehér: Schiele & Panni Néder: When did you last make love on top of a mountain?
Design Without Borders
Design Without Borders
An international design all art event series.
Árpád Schilling / Juli Jakab / Éva Zabizseszkij: Eden Boarding House
Árpád Schilling / Juli Jakab / Éva Zabizseszkij: Eden Boarding House
A performance by the Zágráb Youth Theatre (ZKM)
Inferno 2021
Inferno 2021
NoGravity’s (IT) physical illusion theatre

#Citysettlers

Art lies on the street, all the world’s a stage. Take note, listen, let the public space you thought you were familiar with uncover itself from new points of view.

Budapest BonBon
Budapest BonBon
Cultural bites #BŐF
Liveable Photo Book
Liveable Photo Book
Fortepan Masters installation
News Songs – Live
News Songs – Live
A cooperation by AlicjaRogalska (PL), Katalin Erdődi, Réka Annus, the Women’s Choir of Kartal and the SYrens of Varsány
ArchiKids_Budapest_City Dreamers
ArchiKids_Budapest_City Dreamers
Interactive family festival

#buildingeachother

Everyone has a story which, once it finds a sympathetic ear, gains strength and becomes common. The encouraging examples of identity and solidarity

“Not big travaille”
“Not big travaille”
Technological experiments in the design of performance art
FreeSzemle
FreeSzemle
Jancsó 100
UH Fest 2021
UH Fest 2021
One-week internationals free music festival
Classroom Theatre Convention
Classroom Theatre Convention
National Convention of Classroom Theatre Performances

#Margitlane

Margit quarter encourages us to reconquer our common spaces; the challenge is to establish a new relationship with each other and the city quarter. Convert an empty shop window into a gallery, populate public spaces with theatre, film and dance.

Margit Quarter: Cleaning
Margit Quarter: Cleaning
Participatory performance disguised as communal street sweeping
Remembrance
Remembrance
exhibition
Explorers 4.0 – OUR DREAMS
Explorers 4.0 – OUR DREAMS
The year-end round-up exhibition of the Budapest Art Mentor program
Jurányi KirakART – Recharged with art
Jurányi KirakART – Recharged with art
Shade-time, “exhibition with variable factors”