OFF-Biennále 2025 Closing Weekend – Louder, Together
Over the course of six weeks and nearly a hundred events, the 5th edition of OFF-Biennále Budapest explored the multifaceted meanings of safety.
The final days of this independent contemporary art festival offer opportunities for reflection, collective thinking, and celebration. During the closing weekend, workshops, performances, community walks, guided tours, book launches, and parties follow one another in succession – featuring feminist traditions from Milan, Budapest’s gardens and markets, activist legacies, and new alliances.The programs investigate the possibilities of a safer, more solidary, and imaginatively rich future – through the language of contemporary art.
On Friday evening, the OFF celebrates with a birthday party at Három Holló. The program series CRANK UP THE VOLUME – OFF Marathon features curators and artists of the OFF who jointly visit exhibition venues to share the stories and questions the artworks raise in public space as well.
On closing Sunday, guided tours in both English and Hungarian await interested visitors.
Please find the whole program of the Closing Weekend here.
Join us for a walk, a dialogue, a celebration!
JUNE 12
Our Shared and Personal Boundaries – What Can We Do Today for Change?
Film screening and workshop by PATENT Association at The Day After Tomorrow, Everything Will Change exhibition
2025.06.12. 13:00
Private apartment, 1086 Budapest, Koszorú Street 25-27.
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What remains of a mother after years of abuse?
Following the screening of the deeply moving short film Maman Danse, PATENT Association hosts a workshop exploring early signs of intimate partner violence and the power of community healing.
Film, conversation, creation — mapping our boundaries and possibilities in a safe space.
Somatic Guided Tour in the Exhibition of Queer-Feminist Visual Artist Anna Daucíková
2025.06.12. (Thursday), 18:00
Trafó Gallery, Budapest
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In recent months, Háttér Society and Trafó’s Thought Generator workshop experts worked with seven queer youth.
Using Anna Daučíková’s works as a starting point, they reflected through art mediation practices on body awareness, bodily relationships, and what it feels like to be a queer youth in Hungary today. The insights of this artistic research are now shared in an intimate and unconventional guided tour.
JUNE 13
The feminist practice of affidamento and the politics of desire
Libreria delle donne di Milano (Women's Bookstore of Milan) at the OFF-Biennale
2025.06.13. 14:00
Közkincs Library
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What does the politics of female trust mean?
This workshop inspired by Milanese feminism explores the practice of affidamento — where recognition of differences gives rise to alliances, and desire becomes political action.
Relational politics starting from the personal still offer a radical alternative.
Join us in imagining a new language of freedom!
Bike Repair Café with Repair Café & Cargonomia
2025.06.13. 16:00–18:00
Mindentbelehely, Kálvária Square
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Roll to Kálvária Square and show your ride to expert eyes who’ll check it and help repair it if needed. Or just push it over — we’ll see what’s wrong!
Bibi Tomasi: Al cerchio delle tue mani (In the Circle of Your Hands) – Book Launch
Libreria delle donne di Milano at the OFF-Biennale
2025.06.13. (Friday), 17:00
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Bibi Tomasi’s photo book tells the visual story of the Italian feminist movement.
Drawing from the archive of the Libreria delle donne di Milano, the book showcases never-before-seen photographs of early women’s communities.
Presented by Giorgia Basch and Traudel Sattler, the launch offers a powerful visual journey into the past and present of female solidarity.
Closing Guided Tour with Curator Lívia Páldi & Season-End Toast – Anna Daucíková: The Grammar of the Gaze
2025.06.13. (Friday), 18:00
Trafó Gallery, Budapest
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Anna Daučíková is a pioneer of feminist and queer art in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Her long-awaited first solo exhibition in Hungary explores topics of feminist critique and the (self)education around gender politics.
At its center are performative videos and photo series from the 1990s, examining the intersections of visuality, sensory experience, and the body as a “mediating tool.”
OFF TURNS 10 – Birthday Party at Három Holló
2025.06.13. (Friday), 22:00–4:00
Három Holló
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OFF-Biennale Budapest turns 10! The OFF team invites everyone who ever participated, helped, supported, or was simply curious to celebrate together!
Live music by Geopard Tourist, a Budapest-based soft-psychedelic dance duo formed in 2020.
JUNE 14
Shanghai Street Finissage
2025.06.14. 11:00
Józsefváros Market (Chinese Market), 1087 Budapest, Kőbányai Road 29.
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This cultural walk through the Józsefváros Market — operated largely by immigrants — poses the question: who is the outsider, and who finds home here?
During the self-guided tour, we discover how diasporas shape their own worlds in resistance to exclusion.
An interactive experience exploring belonging, safety, and foreignness — in the most surreal nook of the city. Participation by prior registration.
PRESSURE! – Workshop on Oppressions in Our Work Relationships
2025.06.14. 11:00–13:00
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Is oppression just an abstract political term? Do we notice it when it happens around or to us daily?
How can we create truly equal professional relationships if we’ve never experienced them?
This critical pedagogy-based workshop invites reflection on our working conditions and possible resistance to normalized forms of oppression.
Free and open to anyone who’s faced inequality, injustice, or exploitation at work.
CRANK UP THE VOLUME – OFF MARATHON
2025.06.14. 12:00–19:00
From Margit Blvd. to Kálvária Square
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OFF-Biennale’s curatorial team invites you to a special community walk.
Connected to the closing weekend’s programs, the tour visits exhibition venues and brings to public space the essential inspirations, ideas, stories, and reflections offered by the featured artworks and artists.
🔹 Stops:
Security / Borders | 12:00 | 1027 Budapest, Margit Blvd. 5/A
Traces of Life | 13:00 | CEU Open Gallery, 1051 Budapest, Nádor Street 11.
Kincső Bede: The Art of Pista | 13:40 | Milestone Institute, 1077 Budapest, Wesselényi Street 17
these walls are not here to defend us | 14:00 | Merlin, 1052 Budapest, Károly Blvd. / City Hall Park
Karolina Breguła: The Storm | 14:40 | Vintage Gallery, 1053 Budapest, Magyar Street 26
Mai Ling: Dirt Nouveau | 15:00 | Kisterem Gallery, 1053 Budapest, Képíró Street 6
Emergency Frequencies | 15:30 | Bakáts Bunker, 1092 Budapest, Bakáts Square 1
Venom Zine Library | 16:00 | ISBN+, 1085 Budapest, Baross Street 42
On the Edge – Between Uncertainty and Safety | 16:20 | Bura Gallery, 1085 Budapest, Kőfaragó Street 5
The Day After Tomorrow, Everything Will Change | 16:45 | Ernyey Pharmacy History Library, 1084 Budapest, Mátyás Square 3
The Day After Tomorrow, Everything Will Change | 17:00 | Private apartment, 1086 Budapest, Koszorú Street 25–27
Shanghai Street – Three walks in Józsefváros Market | 17:40 | 1087 Budapest, Kőbányai Road 29
AllInOne | 18:00 | 1089 Budapest, Kálvária Square
Square of Heroines: Are We Where We Wanted to Be?
2025.06.14. 15:00
Merlin, 1052 Budapest, Károly Boulevard / City Hall Park
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A street-front musical on gender inequality, featuring Luca Borsos, Zita Thury, and the Varsányi Sirens.
Using public space as a stage, the production explores everyday challenges of urban womanhood: representation, safety, transit, public restrooms — city life through female eyes.
An associative, provocative, and political musical journey in the public sphere.
LILI AND RUT – A Garden Reveals Its Secrets
Garden Walk Event
2025.06.14. 16:00
Városmajor street 52-54.
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Zsófia Váradi’s performative tour is based on personal and historical research in a private garden where Jewish families once hid during WWII.
This project artistically processes transgenerational trauma and memory. The walk is both a collective ritual and an exploration through family archives and oral history.
Gabriella Csoszó’s Guided Tour of the In Spite of Everything?! Exhibition
2025.06.14. 16:00
Klauzál6 Project Gallery
“A truly unique exhibition. While it features many photos, its real strength lies in the story it tells — of a remarkable group.
For nearly a decade, Roma women from Szomolya and professionals (actors, obstetricians, activists) have worked together to process and present institutional oppression and racism, hoping to raise awareness and spark change.
After impactful performances, they’ve now chosen a different format. I’ve accompanied them with my photography for nine years — and I’ll share that story with you.”
– Gabriella Csoszó
JUNE 15
Closing Curatorial Tour in English with Lívia Páldi and Borbála Soós – these walls are not here to defend us exhibition
2025.06.15. 14:00
Merlin, 1052 Budapest, Károly Boulevard / City Hall Park
This exhibition investigates the walls raised between nations, social groups, or even between humans and nature — aiming to dismantle them.
Works by international and Hungarian artists challenge binary worldviews, patriarchal boundaries, and fear- and hate-driven political messages.
The tour offers insights into how works from different cultural contexts enter into dialogue.