Oona Doherty, Navy Blue, Coda Fest 2023, Photo: Sinje Hasheider
Oona Doherty: Performance Program
All-day performance parcours in the six institutions of Kunstmeile Hamburg
In the context of the International Summer Festival Kampnagel
Saturday, 16 August 2025, 11 am–6:45 pm
Kunstmeile Hamburg
Free admission, limited capacities
11 am & 3 pm: NAVY BLUE PART I (20 min) – Bucerius Kunstforum
12 & 3:45 pm: NAVY BLUE PART II & III ( 10 & 12 min) – Kunsthaus Hamburg
12:45 & 4:30 pm: MEAT KALEIDOSCOPE (12 min) – Hamburger Kunsthalle
1:15 & 5 pm: KETAMINE SOFA / LAZARUS AND THE CONCRETE BIRDS OF PARADISE (12 & 8 min)– Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
2 & 5:45 pm: STRINGS WORK – A NAVY BLUE ABSTRACTION (12 min) – Deichtorhallen Hamburg
6 pm: NAVY BLUE (ADAPTATION) (40 min) – Kunstverein in Hamburg
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.
At the Kunsthaus foyer, Oona Doherty presents a duet at 12 and 3:45 pm, adapted from NAVY BLUE especially for the Kunstmeile Hamburg. Set to Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and the dark, specially composed soundscape by British DJ star Jamie xx, Doherty brings the classical ideal of crisis and redemption into the present day. She weaves an undercurrent of existential dread into the harmony of ballet, which only gives way, in a moment of rebirth, to the hope for a new future.
In addition, the Summer Festival presents her latest stage work SPECKY CLARK and an installation in the Kampnagel Vorhalle.
Trigger warning: Audio contains loud gunshot sounds.