10–19 September 2026

Festival Programme 2025

11–20 September 2025

The programme for the Ultima Festival 2025

20 September 2025
Making sounds and weather
Children's workshop
Ultima Children's Days
Sentralen
20 September 2025
Navigations
Children’s concert with music for weather machines
Ultima Children's Days
Sentralen
20 September 2025
Lecture on the Weather
Music by John Cage and a public dialogue
Concert
Artist talk
Gratis
Nasjonalmuseet
20 September 2025
There is more to it than Casablanca
Music, film, sound, and conversation across Moroccan times and grounds
Film and animation
Concert
Artist talk
Listening session
Festival within the festival
35% off with ultiMATE
Vega Scene
20 September 2025
Fin de partie
György Kurtág’s opera in concert version
Concert
Opera
Den Norske Opera & Ballett
19 September 2025
Listen-Up!
Artists in conversation on how their music takes shape
Artist talk
Gratis
Kruttverket
19 September 2025
Navigations
Composition for weather machines by Arturas Bumšteinas
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Sentralen
19 September 2025
After SFX
Live audio essay by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Performance
MUNCH
19 September 2025
And Fear of Loss Will Not Oppress Your Heart
Hellstenius, Lutosławski and Nemtsov with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Concert
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
NRK Store studio
19 September 2025
Ultima x Trekanten
Håkon Stene + Bendik HK | NEXCYIA
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Trekanten
18 September 2025
Cassettes 100
Aki Onda stages José Maceda
Performance
Artist talk
Gratis
Deichman Bjørvika
18 September 2025
EXTRA PERFORMANCE Elja
Tjøgersen and Maurseth – with Benedicte Maurseth and Kronos Quartet
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Riksscena
18 September 2025
Widmann & Beethoven
Oslo Philharmonic with Jörg Widmann and Carolin Widmann
Concert
Artist talk
35% off with ultiMATE
Oslo Konserthus
18 September 2025
Elja
Tjøgersen and Maurseth – with Benedicte Maurseth and Kronos Quartet
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Riksscena
17–20 September 2025
In this time – Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
Dance performance by Tale Dolven and Alain Franco
Dance
Performance
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Black Box teater
17 September 2025
Det utstrakte
A scenic work by Nina T. Karlsen and Erik Dæhlin with the Norwegian Soloist's Choir
Theatre
Concert
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
Kulturkirken Jakob
16 September 2025
Vi lytter til Løkka
A sound exhibition created by youth
Sound art
Artist talk
Gratis
Atelier Nord
16 September 2025
Mothers are worried
Concert dessiné with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
Concert
Film and animation
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
Sentralen
16 September 2025
Don't Leave the Room
Multimedia concert with Nadar Ensemble
Film and animation
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Sentralen
14–20 September 2025
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
Sound art
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
14 September 2025
Avtrykk – Drawing with Nature
Creative family workshop on architecture and sound
Ultima Children's Days
Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
14 September 2025
Children’s Games
Family Workshop
Ultima Children's Days
Astrup Fearnley Museum
14 September 2025
Blekk i mørket, blekk i lyset
Illustrated concert with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
Ultima Children's Days
Holmlia Kulturhavn
14–16 September 2025
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
Ultima Children's Days
World premiere
Kloden Theatre
14 September 2025
Stockhausen’s Stimmung
Concert with Nordic Voices
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Emanuel Vigeland Museum
14 September 2025
En lydkveld på museet
Minifestival with Afrorack, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Christian Wallumrød, Tim Cooper & Hilde Marie Holsen
Concert
Festival within the festival
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
The Vigeland Museum
14 September 2025
Classic Album Sundays
Album Talk with Aki Onda
Artist talk
Listening session
35% off with ultiMATE
Goldie Bar & Scene
13–14 September 2025
Sound Painters
Children's workshop
Ultima Children's Days
Sentralen
13 September 2025
Blekk i mørket, blekk i lyset
Illustrated concert with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
Ultima Children's Days
Sentralen
13 September 2025
The Question of Knowing
Installative concert with Olga Kokcharova, Hilde Marie Holsen, Ewa Jacobsson and Contrechamps
Concert
Sound art
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
13–19 September 2025
Jocasta's Line
Wayne McGregor ballet to operas by Stravinsky and Moussa
Dance
Opera
World premiere
Den Norske Opera & Ballett
13 September 2025
For Reasons Unknown
Ellen Reid, Joanna Bailie and Tlön with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Sentralen
13–20 September 2025
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
Theatre
Concert
Artist talk
Festival within the festival
The Norwegian Theatre
13 September 2025
HISTORY DOES NOT EXIST, for 3 videos, 18 musicians and an unexpected theatrical intervention
Trond Reinholdtsen / The Norwegian Opra with Oslo Sinfonietta
Theatre
35% off with ultiMATE
Old Munch
12–14 September 2025
Sustainable Composing
Creative seminar and sound installations
Sound art
Seminar
Gratis
Oslo Kunstforening
12 September 2025
Petrichor
Ensemble Allegria performs Kristine Tjøgersen
Concert
Artist talk
35% off with ultiMATE
Sentralen
12–14 September 2025
Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games
Cikada performs Kim Myhr, Pierre Slinckx, Aleksandra Gryka and Angelica Castelló
Film and animation
Concert
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
Astrup Fearnley Museum
12 September 2025
Liquid Room XII: A Perfect Life
A hypnotic music marathon orbiting Robert Ashley
Concert
World premiere
35% off with ultiMATE
Den Norske Opera & Ballett
12 September 2025
byLarm x Ultima
Dania, Eli Keszler and Afrorack
Concert
35% off with ultiMATE
Ensemble, Indigo
11–20 September 2025
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
Sound art
Concert
Gratis
Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
11–14 September 2025
Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation
Sound installation by Johannes Kreidler
Sound art
Gratis
World premiere
Sentralen
11–20 September 2025
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
Sound art
Gratis
Atelier Nord
11 September 2025
Festival opening: City Lines
Oslo Cathedral Choir performs Joanna Bailie, with a choreography by Bailie and Mette Edvardsen
Concert
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Oslo domkirke
11–13 September 2025
Triggersystemet 2: Brunsneglens lange natt [The Long Night of the Slug]
A dramatic poem by Tore Vagn Lid / Transiteatret-Bergen
Theatre
35% off with ultiMATE
Black Box teater
Thursday 11/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
12:00 Sentralen
Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation
Sound installation by Johannes Kreidler
World premiere
15:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
19:00 Oslo domkirke
Festival opening: City Lines
Oslo Cathedral Choir performs Joanna Bailie, with a choreography by Bailie and Mette Edvardsen
21:00 Black Box teater
Triggersystemet 2: Brunsneglens lange natt [The Long Night of the Slug]
A dramatic poem by Tore Vagn Lid / Transiteatret-Bergen
Friday 12/09
09:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Sustainable Composing
Creative seminar and sound installations
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
12:00 Sentralen
Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation
Sound installation by Johannes Kreidler
14:30 Sentralen
Petrichor
Ensemble Allegria performs Kristine Tjøgersen
15:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
16:00 Astrup Fearnley Museum
Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games
Cikada performs Kim Myhr, Pierre Slinckx, Aleksandra Gryka and Angelica Castelló
World premiere
19:00 Black Box teater
Triggersystemet 2: Brunsneglens lange natt [The Long Night of the Slug]
A dramatic poem by Tore Vagn Lid / Transiteatret-Bergen
19:30 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Liquid Room XII: A Perfect Life
A hypnotic music marathon orbiting Robert Ashley
World premiere
21:00 Ensemble, Indigo
byLarm x Ultima
Dania, Eli Keszler and Afrorack
23:45 Ensemble, Indigo
byLarm x Ultima
Dania, Eli Keszler and Afrorack
Saturday 13/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Sentralen
Sound Painters
Children's workshop
12:00 Sentralen
Blekk i mørket, blekk i lyset
Illustrated concert with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Sustainable Composing
Creative seminar and sound installations
12:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
12:00 Sentralen
Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation
Sound installation by Johannes Kreidler
15:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
The Question of Knowing
Installative concert with Olga Kokcharova, Hilde Marie Holsen, Ewa Jacobsson and Contrechamps
World premiere
15:00 Sentralen
Blekk i mørket, blekk i lyset
Illustrated concert with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
17:00 Black Box teater
Triggersystemet 2: Brunsneglens lange natt [The Long Night of the Slug]
A dramatic poem by Tore Vagn Lid / Transiteatret-Bergen
18:00 The Norwegian Theatre
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
18:00 Sentralen
For Reasons Unknown
Ellen Reid, Joanna Bailie and Tlön with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Premiere
18:00 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Jocasta's Line
Wayne McGregor ballet to operas by Stravinsky and Moussa
World premiere
21:00 Old Munch
HISTORY DOES NOT EXIST, for 3 videos, 18 musicians and an unexpected theatrical intervention
Trond Reinholdtsen / The Norwegian Opra with Oslo Sinfonietta
Sunday 14/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
11:00 Sentralen
Sound Painters
Children's workshop
12:00 Holmlia Kulturhavn
Blekk i mørket, blekk i lyset
Illustrated concert with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
12:00 Astrup Fearnley Museum
Children’s Games
Family Workshop
12:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Avtrykk – Drawing with Nature
Creative family workshop on architecture and sound
12:00 Oslo Kunstforening
Sustainable Composing
Creative seminar and sound installations
12:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
12:00 Sentralen
Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation
Sound installation by Johannes Kreidler
13:00 Kloden Theatre
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
World premiere
14:00 Holmlia Kulturhavn
Blekk i mørket, blekk i lyset
Illustrated concert with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
15:00 Emanuel Vigeland Museum
Stockhausen’s Stimmung
Concert with Nordic Voices
Sold out
15:00 Kloden Theatre
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
World premiere
15:00 Astrup Fearnley Museum
Four Compositions on Francis Alÿs' Children's Games
Cikada performs Kim Myhr, Pierre Slinckx, Aleksandra Gryka and Angelica Castelló
17:00 The Vigeland Museum
En lydkveld på museet
Minifestival with Afrorack, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Christian Wallumrød, Tim Cooper & Hilde Marie Holsen
World premiere
19:00 Goldie Bar & Scene
Classic Album Sundays
Album Talk with Aki Onda
Monday 15/09
10:00 Kloden Theatre
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
World premiere
12:00 Kloden Theatre
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
World premiere
Tuesday 16/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
12:30 Kloden Theatre
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
World premiere
14:30 Kloden Theatre
Fantasmagoria
A musical puppet theatre performance for children
World premiere
17:00 Atelier Nord
Vi lytter til Løkka
A sound exhibition created by youth
18:00 Sentralen
Mothers are worried
Concert dessiné with Inger Hannisdal and Karen Keyrouz
World premiere
18:00 The Norwegian Theatre
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
19:30 Sentralen
Don't Leave the Room
Multimedia concert with Nadar Ensemble
Wednesday 17/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
15:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
18:00 Black Box teater
In this time – Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
Dance performance by Tale Dolven and Alain Franco
18:00 The Norwegian Theatre
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
19:00 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Jocasta's Line
Wayne McGregor ballet to operas by Stravinsky and Moussa
20:30 Kulturkirken Jakob
Det utstrakte
A scenic work by Nina T. Karlsen and Erik Dæhlin with the Norwegian Soloist's Choir
World premiere
Sold out
Thursday 18/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
15:00 Deichman Bjørvika
Cassettes 100
Aki Onda stages José Maceda
15:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
16:30 Deichman Bjørvika
Cassettes 100
Aki Onda stages José Maceda
18:00 Black Box teater
In this time – Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
Dance performance by Tale Dolven and Alain Franco
19:00 Oslo Konserthus
Widmann & Beethoven
Oslo Philharmonic with Jörg Widmann and Carolin Widmann
19:00 Riksscena
EXTRA PERFORMANCE Elja
Tjøgersen and Maurseth – with Benedicte Maurseth and Kronos Quartet
19:00 The Norwegian Theatre
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
21:00 Riksscena
Elja
Tjøgersen and Maurseth – with Benedicte Maurseth and Kronos Quartet
Sold out
Friday 19/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Kruttverket
Listen-Up!
Artists in conversation on how their music takes shape
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
15:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
16:00 Sentralen
Navigations
Composition for weather machines by Arturas Bumšteinas
18:00 MUNCH
After SFX
Live audio essay by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
19:00 The Norwegian Theatre
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
19:00 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Jocasta's Line
Wayne McGregor ballet to operas by Stravinsky and Moussa
19:30 NRK Store studio
And Fear of Loss Will Not Oppress Your Heart
Hellstenius, Lutosławski and Nemtsov with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra
World premiere
21:00 Trekanten
Ultima x Trekanten
Håkon Stene + Bendik HK | NEXCYIA
Saturday 20/09
10:00 Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Ultima Pavilion
Music, installations, coffee, and other activities
11:00 Sentralen
Making sounds and weather
Children's workshop
11:00 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Labyrinthic Explanation of Knowledge
Sound installation by Ewa Jacobsson & Hilde Marie Holsen with Ensemble Contrechamps
12:00 Sentralen
Navigations
Children’s concert with music for weather machines
12:00 Atelier Nord
Broken Chord
Sound installation by Hans Rosenström
13:00 Nasjonalmuseet
Lecture on the Weather
Music by John Cage and a public dialogue
14:00 Vega Scene
There is more to it than Casablanca
Music, film, sound, and conversation across Moroccan times and grounds
14:00 Sentralen
Navigations
Children’s concert with music for weather machines
16:30 The Norwegian Theatre
DRAGONBLOOD
A motivational, dragon-themed fantasy festival by ONLY SLIME with NEKO3, Team Rolfes, Kevin He, DJ Trick, Dragongirl and Frida Marida🩸⚔️🩸
17:00 Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Fin de partie
György Kurtág’s opera in concert version
18:00 Black Box teater
In this time – Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
Dance performance by Tale Dolven and Alain Franco
Astrup Fearnley Museum
Atelier Nord
Black Box teater
Deichman Bjørvika
Den Norske Opera & Ballett
Emanuel Vigeland Museum
Ensemble
Goldie Bar & Scene
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Holmlia Kulturhavn
Indigo
Kloden Theatre
Kruttverket
Kulturkirken Jakob
MUNCH
NRK Store studio
Nasjonalmuseet
Old Munch
Oslo Konserthus
Oslo Kunstforening
Oslo domkirke
Riksscena
Sentralen
The Norwegian Theatre
The Vigeland Museum
Tigerplassen, Jernbanetorget
Trekanten
Vega Scene

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