Events 2026
08. 10. 2026
Autechre
The British duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth formed in 1987 and went on to become one of the most exciting experimental acts in electronic dance music. Over the years, the pioneering pair have released numerous albums that are now regarded as...
09. 10. 2026
Walk This Way. The Art of Walking
Walking is one of the most fundamental forms of human movement, which can transcend its practical, everyday function and be interpreted as a cultural-historical phenomenon, a means of cognition, an artistic act and a philosophical methodology. Lucius...
10. 10. 2026
FrenÁk Company: FrenÉsie – premiere
FrenÉsie (French for ‘frenzy,’ ‘craze’ or ‘rampage’) stands for visuals and dynamics where in the centre of the space the bodies swirl in a controlled manner, yet wildly, unstoppably. The play explores the existential questions of the future and...
10. 10. 2026
Snétberger Music Talent Centre 15
Fifteen years ago, Ferenc Snétberger launched a unique mentoring programme that provides learning opportunities across the widest possible spectrum for disadvantaged young people with exceptional musical talent. Every year, young people from...
11. 10. 2026
FrenÁk Company: FrenÉsie
FrenÉsie (French for ‘frenzy,’ ‘craze’ or ‘rampage’) stands for visuals and dynamics where in the centre of the space the bodies swirl in a controlled manner, yet wildly, unstoppably. The play explores the existential questions of the future and...
12. 10. 2026
An Evening with Marcsi Tóth
In 2025, Erdő van idebenn (There’s a Forest Inside) won the Margó Prize for Best First Book of Prose. This was Marcsi Tóth’s first book, brought out by Magvető, and it had been in the making since 2011. It takes place in the world of provincial...
12. 10. 2026
London Sinfonietta
Steve Reich, one of the most popular contemporary composers of our time, will turn 90 in October and remains very active, with the Edinburgh Festival celebrating his birthday with the premiere of his new orchestral piece. The legendary American...
13. 10. 2026
Franz Welser-Möst | The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra, under the leadership of Franz Welser-Möst since 2002, is considered “America’s finest” by The New York Times. Founded in 1918, the orchestra performs at Severance Music Center, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful...
15. 10. 2026
Art Market Budapest
Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest international art fair and one of Europe’s significant contemporary art events, brings a special experience to art lovers and art professionals for the 16th occasion in October 2026. The...
15. 10. 2026
Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Between 15 and 18 October, readers will once again have the opportunity to discover the best of world and Hungarian literature at the Autumn Margó Literary Festival, held in the National Dance Theatre at Millenáris. Bernardo Atxaga, Steinunn...
15. 10. 2026
Duna Art Ensemble: Romany Face – Romangi faca – premiere
The culture of the Roma in the Carpathian Basin is extremely colourful and varied: Romany folklore is anything but homogeneous, with every community or group having its own distinct, unique features. The culture of the Lovari differs from that of the...
15. 10. 2026
MORDÁI
MORDÁI bring a special show to the Margó Literary Festival: alongside playing their own songs, they will pay tribute to the work of Ferenc Sebő with a themed set. MORDÁI’s musical world is deeply influenced by the experimental Hungarian folk music...
16. 10. 2026
Art Market Budapest
Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest international art fair and one of Europe’s significant contemporary art events, brings a special experience to art lovers and art professionals for the 16th occasion in October 2026. The...
16. 10. 2026
Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Between 15 and 18 October, readers will once again have the opportunity to discover the best of world and Hungarian literature at the Autumn Margó Literary Festival at Millenáris. Bernardo Atxaga, Mart Kivastik, Grzegorz Musiał, Beatriz Serrano,...
16. 10. 2026
Duna Art Ensemble: Romany Face – Romangi faca
The culture of the Roma in the Carpathian Basin is extremely colourful and varied: Romany folklore is anything but homogeneous, with every community or group having its own distinct, unique features. The culture of the Lovari differs from that of the...
16. 10. 2026
Thaw
Olvadás (Thaw), Tibor Noé Kiss’s novel, is set in the spring of 2019 in a village in Baranya County, where a woman in her thirties, formerly a social worker, leaving her old life behind, starts a new one with her husband, a cultural anthropologist....
17. 10. 2026
Art Market Budapest
Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest international art fair and one of Europe’s significant contemporary art events, brings a special experience to art lovers and art professionals for the 16th occasion in October 2026. The...
17. 10. 2026
Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Between 15 and 18 October, readers will once again have the opportunity to discover the best of world and Hungarian literature at the Autumn Margó Literary Festival at Millenáris. Bernardo Atxaga, Mart Kivastik, Grzegorz Musiał, Beatriz Serrano,...
17. 10. 2026
Isolation Budapest
In 2026, Isolation Budapest will once again bring the latest, most exciting voices in contemporary pop music to Budapest. The joint festival of the Liszt Fest, Müpa Budapest and Akvárium Klub once again selects from the diverse underground scene,...
17. 10. 2026
Vakhtang Kakhidze | Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra
Vakhtang Kakhidze, one of Georgia’s leading composers and conductors, completed his Requiem in 2021, dedicating the monumental work to the memory of his father, the legendary conductor, Djansug Kakhidze. Following its Tbilisi premiere, the...
17. 10. 2026
Margo Literary Festival 15
There won’t be any historic photos or tearful reminiscences of the first Margó events at the Gozsdu Manó Club, the Corvintető or the Castró. These places are no longer there anyway. The monument erected for Margó will not be larger than what it...
18. 10. 2026
Art Market Budapest
Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest international art fair and one of Europe’s significant contemporary art events, brings a special experience to art lovers and art professionals for the 16th occasion in October 2026. The...
18. 10. 2026
Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Between 15 and 18 October, readers will once again have the opportunity to discover the best of world and Hungarian literature at the Autumn Margó Literary Festival at Millenáris. Bernardo Atxaga, Mart Kivastik, Grzegorz Musiał, Beatriz Serrano,...
18. 10. 2026
Liszt: Christus
The church music of the future, wrote a young Ferenc Liszt, will ‘unite – on a colossal scale – the Theatre and the Church, dramatic and sacred, superb and simple, fiery and free, stormy and calm, translucent and emotional.’ After a 1938...
19. 10. 2026
Balázs Fülei | András Szalai
Resignation is the keynote of the old Liszt’s compositional style. As a young pianist and then composer, he had travelled all across Europe and had created some of the most important works of the 19th century: he was universally celebrated. By this...
21. 10. 2026
Dedicated ones
This extensive exhibition presents Hungarian women artists of the first half of the 20th century, showing the works in thematic groupings in a chronological arrangement. Some of the subjects – such as nudes, portraits, landscapes, mother-and-child...
21. 10. 2026
Secret Memories – Tihanyi 70
László Tihanyi is a composer who is also a leading figure in the Hungarian music scene as an educator and conductor. With almost a hundred compositions, his oeuvre is a towering accomplishment of the past four decades. In recent years, he has...
21. 10. 2026
Alan Gilbert | Leif Ove Andsnes | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
A leading symphony ensemble in Northern Germany, the resident orchestra of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is the shaper not only of the profile of a great concert venue, but also of today’s classical music scene thanks to the internationally...
22. 10. 2026
Liszt: Christus
The church music of the future, wrote a young Ferenc Liszt, will ‘unite – on a colossal scale – the Theatre and the Church, dramatic and sacred, superb and simple, fiery and free, stormy and calm, translucent and emotional.’ After a 1938...
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