More Than 26,000 Visited This Year’s Budapest Design Week

Design, community, inspiration – 10 cities, 200 programmes, and 26,000 visitors! This year’s Budapest Design Week spectacularly demonstrated that Hungarian creativity has no limits.  The programme series, running under the motto “Fluid Boundaries”, provided an experience, inspiration, and a community adventure at once, in the online and offline spaces.

This year, design connected the country again: from exhibitions in Budapest to the streets of Pécs, from Sopron studios to galleries in Debrecen, more than 26,000 visitors discovered how deeply design is woven into our daily lives. The event series was held in a hybrid format. The 20,000 on-site visitors and thousands of online attendees could experience together that design is not mere aesthetics but a living dialogue with the future. Thus, BDW was not only a celebration of the profession but a genuine community experience, where craftsmanship could meet technology and tradition met innovation.

For the sixth year, 360 Design Budapest was included among the flagship events of Budapest Design Week, where nearly 400 domestic and regional designers’ contemporary creations showed how art, technology, and everyday life intertwine. The 15th Art Market Budapest once again brought Central and Eastern Europe’s largest contemporary fine art fair to the city, while the 21st Design Without Borders exhibition showcased design masterpieces from 15 countries. The EDIDA Award ceremony placed the best domestic creators in the spotlight for the fourth time, and MaxCity enriched the programme range with its traditional partner events.

The national programme series took place in ten cities, including Pécs, Sopron, Debrecen, Győr, Kecskemét, Veszprém, Szentendre, Tata, and Balatonfüred, with over 100 contributing organisations.

This year, the regional importance of Design Week was further strengthened by cities outside the capital: in Pécs, over 40 programmes attracted 1,500 visitors; in Sopron, nearly 20 events engaged 1,600 participants; and in Debrecen, six programmes and around fifty creative professionals carried forward the spirit of design.

This year, the programmes also attracted keen interest from the international design community; journalists, curators, and design fair professionals arrived from across the region, as well as from France, Germany, and Japan, to discover the new wave of Hungarian design.

The 2025 edition of BDW demonstrated what the world of “Fluid Boundaries” means today: when creativity permeates genres, cities, and communities. Design is everywhere; we simply need to look at it with new eyes.