During Ultima 2025, a temporary music pavilion will be installed at Tigerplassen, next to Oslo Central Station. The Ultima Pavilion will be 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 daily for ten days, presenting short concerts, installations, talks, and activities for 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 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.
You can read more on Ultima's website.
About the pavilion
- 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.
- Seven 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?”.
