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.

A few months ago, Központ joined forces with The Principal’s Office, a café concept dedicated to espresso-based drinks and specialty coffee. The founders, Bálint Homonnai Varga and Benjamin Tenner, developed the PO experience in Florence, Italy, where they spent months immersing themselves in the world of third-wave coffee.

Although Colombia and Hungary are located in two distant parts of the world, the sensitivity, vision and artistic expression of the people show surprisingly many similarities. The common starting idea of the two curators is the experience that young contemporary artists honestly see the difficulties and problems of our current world, and are not afraid to honestly reflect on them in their artistic work.

The smoke machines of Budapest and the fire of Bogotá locking into an all-night soundwave. It all started with a checkout trip to Colombia, grew through friendship, and ended up with the two capitals exchanging underground champions like long-lost twins. It couldn’t have turned out any better.

Our silver-lit Holdturbina nights are in full orbit – weekend after weekend, Holdturbina is glowing brighter, thanks to our peak-form performers and your unwavering presence.

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.

It's been two years since we launched Budapest's most streamlined program offering site, Spots, which has been used by thousands of people as a compass day and night ever since.

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.

We continue to keep up with the selection, helping you filter out the best parties from the digital noise, with the help of the city's program offering site, Telekom Spots.