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Ultima Pavilion

Music, installations, coffee, and other activities for all ages

11–20 September 2025
Free

Showings and tickets

Thursday, 11/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Friday, 12/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Saturday, 13/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Sunday, 14/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Tuesday, 16/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Wednesday, 17/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Thursday, 18/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Friday, 19/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Saturday, 20/09

10:00–18:00
Tigerplassen
Free

Music at the heart of the city

During Ultima 2025, a temporary music pavilion will be installed at Tigerplassen, next to Oslo Central Station. The Ultima Pavilion will serve as a gathering point for listening experiences, encounters, and musical surprises. Here, you can get up close to composers, musicians, and artists at work. You might hear something you have never heard before – or even become part of it yourself.

The pavilion will be open every day for ten days, presenting short concerts, installations, talks, and activities for both children and adults – programmed and performed by emerging musicians. You can drop by on your way to the train, during your lunch break, or seek it out as part of the festival programme.

The music you encounter will be both composed and improvised, but never detached. It emerges in dialogue with the city’s life, sounds, and rhythms, with you as a listener.

This is a place for experimentation, reflection, curiosity, and a sense of welcome regardless of your experience. A place that accommodates intimacy and distance, silence and noise. And a place with memory: each day leaves its trace, and the sounds that accumulate in the pavilion return in a new form on the final day.

A small coffee corner invites you to sit down, take a break, and make new friends.

More details will be published throughout August and September. Stay tuned!

Facts

  • The programme spans ten days and includes short concerts, sound installations, conversations, and interactive elements for both seasoned festival goers and curious passers-by. Each day has its own focus, with different artists, themes, and expressions. Sunday 14/9 is dedicated to activities for children.
  • Six young curators, all musicians and composers, have developed the pavilion’s programme in collaboration with music students and staff from the Norwegian Academy of Music.
  • The pavilion is built by Circular Prototyping students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, with reused materials and following principles of circular and sustainable architecture – in line with the Oslo Architecture Triennale’s motto, “What if nature comes first?”.

Curators

  • Børge Furnes
  • Wei Ting Tseng
  • Fredrik Stanghov
  • Giuseppe Pisano
  • Saimi Ester Kortelainen
  • Wouter Torrenga
  • Ferdinand Schwarz

Design and construction

  • Jorik Niclas Flohr
  • Lars Jakob Van Der Hagen
  • Brage Leirvik Hofgaard
  • Daphné Hue
  • Eva Labessede
  • Carlos Ortiz Belmonte
  • Maria Puelles Sanchez
  • Irene Romero Bistuer
  • Simon Schedel
  • Nikolaos Souglidis
  • Joséphine Stroobants
  • Nicolay Tangen Svennæs
  • Thanh Tien Thi Tran
  • Severin Kokaas Winther Ingebretsen
  • Linus Meier

Under the guidance of

  • Tine Hegli
  • Lina Elisabeth Broström
  • Claudia Andrea Pinochet Rojas
  • Ilse Svortevik Hviding

Advisors

  • Michael Francis Duch
  • Alwynned Pritchard
  • Jens Jørgen Dammerud
  • Geir Glasø
  • Solveig Skår
  • Line Ramstad
  • Heloisa Amaral
  • Alexandra Cruz
  • Roald Paul Arne Jenssen
  • Arnkell Jonas Petersen
  • Solveig Sandness
  • Ute Chistina Groba
  • Trond Reinholdtsen
  • Cathrine Vigander
  • Ona Flindall

Supported by

  • Plannja Tak
  • Sweco Norway
  • Rothoblaas Norway
  • Trosterud Mekaniske
  • Linolie og Pigment AS
  • ULYSSES Platform, co-funded by the European Union
  • Sparebankstiftelsen DNB

In collaboration with

  • Norwegian Academy of Music
  • Oslo School of Architecture and Design
  • Oslo Architecture Triennale