Mercedes-Benz Art Collection's POWER LINES at Budapest Transformer Station

POWER LINES, an exhibition at a former transformer station in Budapest, brings together works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection with artists from Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe. The venue, once built to power the city's industrial expansion, now serves as a cultural production site. The show examines how infrastructures of industry, energy, labor, and mobility shape living conditions and environments. It reflects on transformations that have reshaped the Budapest region over recent decades, highlighting how industrial production, logistical networks, and technological systems have created opportunities and defined aesthetics while embedding communities in complex dependencies. Over 30 artists participate.