Look back at the most stunning moments of our multisensory adventure, and remember: INOTA Festival reactivates again next summer.
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INOTA WINTER LIGHTS: Dogheadsuriger / Farseer
While we’re already powering up the ’26 festival with full thermal capacity, we’re also preparing to help you dissolve the dimensional structure of winter – so we invited Farseer, founder of Guardian Records and a key disruptor of global psychedelic dance environments, whose ‘primal’ techno acts as a spatial-expansion protocol, along with the comet of the Polish underground, Dogheadsurigeri, already field-tested at the Liget, who will deliver tempos marinated in future time-signatures.
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15,000 people attended this year’s INOTA events
From our side at NVC, who were responsible for the full music program, we want to thank everyone who put their trust in us.
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LIGHT FACTORY: THE EXHIBITION
Since its 2023 debut, INOTA – set in a decommissioned socialist power plant – has rapidly become one of the most distinctive audiovisual festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. From the very beginning, the organisers have been actively envisioning the site's long-term cultural revitalisation.
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New Stage at INOTA Festival: Periféria Promises a 12-Hour High-Speed Rave
Supported by Telekom Electronic Beats, a new stage is coming to life on Friday, August 29th, within the grounds of the Inota power plant. Peripheria will serve as the home of the fastest, hardest, and rawest strands of free-spirited dance music at this year’s INOTA Festival.
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LIGHT FACTORY: THE EXHIBITION
Reflecting our vision, the project reaches a new milestone in 2025: between August 15–24, the entire area will be open to the public for the first time, marking the launch of INOTA’s first large-scale light art exhibition, open daily from 6 to 11 PM. With this, the power plant is set to become Hungary’s largest industrial exhibition space.
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INOTA Festival 2025
In 2025, INOTA Festival returns to its one and only home: the defunct power plant next to Várpalota. We’re coming back with a powerful lineup of innovative sounds, striking installations, and a previously unused location within our massive post-industrial playground, to make sure this end-of-summer celebration echoes long into the future again.
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INOTA FESTIVAL HEADLINER CATERINA BARBIERI BECAME THE VENICE BIENNALE'S MUSIC ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The Italian composer, known for his cosmically heart-wrenching analog soundscapes - who was also one of the most memorable performers at the first INOTA Festival last year at the Várpalota power plant - announced the news on his Instagram the other day that she will be the number one curator of the music program in 2025 and 2026.
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INOTA Focus: RADIANCE
After our Turbine Hall-focused rave, we continue to build the INOTA narrative: during the last days of summer, light art will become the main protagonist and the power plant zone will become one huge accessible exhibition space - while the electronic music side will not be forgotten, from cosmic ambient to cutting-edge techno.
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INOTA Focus: TURBINACSARNOK
Last year, shapes of the past and the future merged into an exceptionally original unity in the stunning grounds of the Inota thermal power plant. One of the highlights of our festival was the opening of the enormous Turbine Hall, towering over us, and the idea was already in the air: we have to shake this giant again.
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INOTA Festival 2023
The INOTA Festival is a joint initiative of the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme, the 18-year-old NVC event organisation collective and Centrum Production. The aim of the event, created by the Hungarian underground music and visual scene, is to create Hungary's largest event featuring not only groundbreaking music acts, but also light installations, mapping and other contemporary visual art.
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