International Summer Festival

The International Summer Festival Hamburg takes place for three weeks each August at Kampnagel and selected places in the city of Hamburg. Since its beginning in the mid 80s, the festival has held a position as one of the big European festivals, presenting theatre, dance, visual arts, performance, music and theory from all over the world. András Siebold has been Artistic Director of the festival since 2013, whose programme focuses on the entanglement of pop culture and avantgarde and the interdisciplinary expansion of genre boundaries. Invited artists stand out due to their interest and engagement in the present and radical aesthetic approaches. An essential feature of the festival is the high proportion of world premieres and co-productions, which are realized within a worldwide network of partners. In recent years, the International Summer Festival Kampnagel has become a globally acclaimed platform for the latest productions of contemporary dance pieces. Internationally renowned groups and artists develop works at Kampnagel that represent the future of contemporary dance and subsequently appear on major stages around the world. Each year the festival invites or produces about 50 different works that attract up to 50.000 visitors from Hamburg and abroad.