A woman with flowing hair poses expressively in front of a white background, as if air were being blown into her face. She is wearing a light blue shirt.

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER FESTIVAL 2025

Dance / Performance / Visual Arts

Oona Doherty

Performance Program

An all-day performance parcours showcasing Doherty’s visceral dance language in dialogue with visual art – across six museums.

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Free of charge (incl. exhibition visit)

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Saturday

8/16/25

11:00 AM

Kunstmeile Hamburg

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Oona Doherty (*1986) has risen to fame with her intense movement language and works depicting a world breaking free from crisis. After receiving the Silver Lion at the 2021 Venice Biennale and premiering NAVY BLUE at the 2022 Summer Festival, the Northern Irish choreographer now presents performances across all six venues of Kunstmeile Hamburg.

Showcasing her diverse artistic output that blends dance, theater, music, and art, Doherty connects previous works to each site, creating a choreographic dialogue with visual art: from feminist responses to Hans Makart's salon paintings in the Kunsthalle, to a duet engaging with Katharina Grosse’s expansive works at the Deichtorhallen, and a large-scale choreography at Kunstverein that closes the day. In addition, the Summer Festival presents her latest stage work SPECKY CLARK and an installation in the Kampnagel Vorhalle.

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Program

11am & 3pm	NAVY BLUE PART 1 (10 min)	Bucerius Kunst Forum
12pm & 3:45pm	NAVE BLUE PART 2 & 3(10 & 12 min)	Kunsthaus Hamburg
12:45pm & 4:30pm	MEAT KALEIDOSCOPE (12 min)	Hamburger Kunsthalle
13:15pm & 5pm	KETAMINE SOFA & LAZARUS AND THE BIRDS OF PARADISE (12 & 8 min)	Museum für Kunst & Gerwerbe Hamburg
2pm & 5:45pm	STRINGS WORK - A NAVY BLUE ABSTRACTION (12 min)	Deichtorhallen Hamburg
6pm	NAVY BLUE (40 min)	Kunstverein in Hamburg

Two people dressed in blue are posing in front of a window facade. One is facing the other, who is elegantly stretching their arms out to both sides. The audience is visible in the foreground.

Two dancers in blue clothing are squatting barefoot next to each other. Their eyes are directed downward.

Two large, shirtless individuals embrace in front of a huge classical painting depicting many white people.

Two large, bare-chested dancers have their arms around each other and are trying to push each other away. In the background is a section of a classical painting with a golden frame.

Two dancers in blue move in front of large colorful hanging fabric. They laugh, and one person has their hand on the other's arm and appears to be running away.

A large art hall with colorful fabrics hanging down on the left and right. The audience can be seen in the background, with two dancers in the center before them, arms stretched upward, one standing and one crouching.

A person lies seemingly unconscious in front of a sofa surrounded by beer cans. The audience sits on the left.

A person dressed in white lies on cobblestones with one arm outstretched. In front of a bare wall, a group of people, also dressed in white and wearing gold chains looks at the person lying on the ground and stands next to them.

A group of people dressed in blue stand barefoot in a row with their hands outstretched and crossed over each other. In the background, an audience can be seen, and in the foreground, a person is bent over, stretching out their foot.

A group of people dressed in blue stand close together in a cluster, contorting their bodies and stretching their arms out in all directions. In the background, there is a large window and an audience.

Evening program - Oona Doherty: Performance program Kunstmeile - DE/EN

With: Oona Doherty

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Oona Doherty DANCE Mohamed Makhlouf, Tomer Pistiner, Andréa Moufounda, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, Magdalena Öttl, Joseph Simon, Ryan O’Neill, John Scott, Sam Finnegan, N.N.

IN COOPERATION WITH Kunstmeile Hamburg (Bucerius Kunst Forum, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg)

Oona Doherty

Performance Program

An all-day performance parcours showcasing Doherty’s visceral dance language in dialogue with visual art – across six museums.

Past dates

Program

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