Spotlight 2026 – Playground: Bucharest festival of light
Fri 9 Oct – Sun 11 Oct · Calea Victoriei and adjoining streets, Bucharest · Bucharest
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via Bucuresti.ro · Checked 2 Oct 2026
About this event
For three nights Calea Victoriei becomes a light gallery: nineteen installations and video-mapping works, six façades turned into projection surfaces, and more than sixteen artists from Romania and abroad. The tenth edition's theme, Playground, pushes the work towards things you walk into and alter rather than simply look at. Allow two hours for the full route.
Why we picked it
The single biggest free cultural night of Bucharest's autumn — a 300,000-visitor light festival run by the city hall's own culture arm, in the priority window's second weekend.
Free entry
Free entry — 'accesul este gratuit'; nightly public programme 19:00–23:00
Registration
None
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