MISSION

INOTA is not a point in time, but an architecture of overlapping, dynamic historical layers: a unique place where the industrial heritage of the socialist past, the creative energies of the present, and visions of the future still searching for their forms coexist at once.

The space of the Várpalota power plant is not merely a backdrop, but memory itself – a collective imprint of the twentieth century’s grand promises, which the organizers have come not to erase, but to reinterpret.

The first INOTA Festival in 2023 was created as a joint initiative by the Budapest-based NVC event-organizing collective and Centrum Production, with the aim of realizing Hungary’s largest audiovisual festival – one that brings together not only forward-looking musical acts, but also light installations, mappings, and other contemporary visual works, fully engaging the overwhelming industrial spaces of the vast site itself.

Since then, those who arrive here dissolve into an intense, shared presence, year after year redrawing the project onto Europe’s festival map with ever-thicker ink.

In 2026, the festival returns renewed – yet renewal has always been a continuous intention. INOTA’s long-term plans include becoming a cultural center, equipped with new community functions while preserving the site’s character throughout.

INOTA’s future is an inspiring, innovative creative ecosystem where large-scale installations and everyday presence do not exclude one another, but complement each other.