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
Private apartment, 1086 Budapest, Koszorú Street 25-27.
2025.06.12. 13:00
Registration: https://forms.gle/ydtrVYEhi3WbatiL9
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
Trafó Gallery, Budapest
2025.06.12. (Thursday), 18:00
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/2be8azfh
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.
The feminist practice of affidamento and the politics of desire
Libreria delle donne di Milano (Women’s Bookstore of Milan) at the OFF-Biennale
Közkincs Library
2025.06.13. 14:00
Registration: https://forms.gle/rGNu8zUZWCDz6Rpi6
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
Mindentbelehely (Budapest VIII. Kálvária Square)
2025.06.13. 16:00–18:00
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
ISBN+ (Budapest VIII. Baross utca 43.)
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
Trafó Gallery, Budapest
2025.06.13. (Friday), 18:00
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
Három Holló (Budapest V. Piarista köz 1.)
2025.06.13. (Friday), 22:00–4:00
Tickets (support OFF operations): https://www.tixa.hu/10-eves-az-off-szuletesnapi-buli-a-harom-holloban-20250613
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.
Shanghai Street Finissage
Józsefváros Market (Chinese Market), 1087 Budapest, Kőbányai Road 29.
2025.06.14. 11:00
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
Registration: https://forms.gle/ym1xHSDT5Nq38AaG6
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
From Margit Blvd. to Kálvária Square
2025.06.14. 12:00–19:00
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.
- 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?
Merlin, 1052 Budapest, Károly Boulevard / City Hall Park
2025.06.14. 15:00
Registration: https://forms.gle/3Caz8cAqN8rUSLFfA
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
Budapest XII. Városmajor street 52-54.
2025.06.14. 16:00
Registration: https://forms.gle/M6yFyjJH8NkkjUQd9
Zsófia Váradi’s performative tour is based on personal and historical research in a private garden where Jewish families once hid during WWII. The 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
Klauzál6 Project Gallery
2025.06.14. 16:00
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
Closing Curatorial Tour in English with Lívia Páldi and Borbála Soós – these walls are not here to defend us exhibition
Merlin, 1052 Budapest, Károly Boulevard / City Hall Park
2025.06.15. 14:00
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.