Onassis Stegi new season starts with world premieres, music, theater and new venues

At the start of the season, Onassis Stegi welcomes us to a new space, the renovated Onassis Mandra on Dionysiou Areopagitou street, with a visual and sonic experience that offers complete calm in the center of the bustling city. "Clinamen" by composer and visual artist Céleste Boursier Mougenot has been captivating audiences since 1997, and after the Pinault Collection at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris in 2025 and the Park Avenue Armory in New York in 2026, it makes a stop in Athens from 25 September to 6 December. It invites us to synchronize with the sound of silence, creating a deep-blue water landscape with hundreds of white ceramic bowls floating in three specially designed pools. The bowls meet, collide and produce sounds, drawing us into a meditative journey. For the first time, the impressive "Clinamen" acquires a new dimension, as it takes place outdoors and gives itself over to the shade, the air, the voices, the sounds and the echo of Athens, and to the force of natural elements and weather phenomena: light, wind and rain, in the only surviving open-air Athenian theatre of the Belle Époque. A work that effortlessly earns our time.

After "ROHTKO" and "Respublika", Łukasz Twarkowski, having now conquered some of Europe’s greatest theatres and festivals, returns to the Onassis Stegi with "Oracle" from 15 to 18 October, an immersive stage universe about Alan Turing, the code that changed History, the birth of Artificial Intelligence, the dark sides of progress, and those who break boundaries without hesitating to pay the price of that daring. Theatre, live cinema, powerful music and real stories intertwine in an experience that does not let you catch your breath. Thermal and infrared cameras, immersive soundscapes and cinematic projections dissolve the boundaries between reality and illusion. Visually striking and conceptually provocative, the work reflects on Turing’s story, placing it alongside forgotten stories and biographies that haunt the margins of official history. A visually and dramaturgically explosive work about the cost of human transcendence and progress, by a creator who continues to shift the limits of stage experience.

Borderline Festival returns on 9 October in a special one-day edition with 3 stages at Onassis Ready and an explosive line up: Ricardo Villalobos, in collaboration with ReSolute (NYC), the leader of minimal house and microhouse, in his first appearance in Athens after 12 years, with a rare 4-hour DJ set. Nightmares On Wax belongs to the roster of the legendary and pioneering label Warp Records and is undeniably one of the forerunners of the electronic trip hop sound. Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan left an indelible mark on film-loving music audiences with her haunting appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s landmark 2010s film "Only Lovers Left Alive", and comes to intoxicate us with her impressive voice, blending the traditional sounds of the East with the energy of electro folk pop. Internationally acclaimed Greek indie pop singer and songwriter Σtella, now part of the iconic American label Sub Pop, with an international career at some of the world’s biggest music festivals, makes a unique appearance in Athens in this condensed version of Borderline, which holds many more surprises.

From 22 October to 1 November 2026, Soundwalk Collective meet the iconic independent cinema creator Jim Jarmusch in the world premiere of the new audiovisual installation "The Future Doesn’t Need You" at Onassis Ready. A title as warning, for a world that may continue without us. Jarmusch sets the camera aside for a while and returns to his other great obsession: music, having in recent years shaped his own guitar driven, hypnotic sound through the duo Sqürl. After the mystical "Correspondences with Patti Smith" at the Onassis Stegi in 2024 and the recent "Sonic Prayer with Patti Smith" for the Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Soundwalk Collective collaborate once again with the Onassis Stegi on a work about the melting of glaciers and the unimaginable future it foretells. At the core of the installation is a continuous guitar drone, performed by Jarmusch himself: an unstable, unresolved resonance, as if the glacier continues to pulse even as it disappears. The installation is accompanied by a live program of concerts and performances with different artists each night, as well as film screenings curated by Jim Jarmusch, with works that return to the same urgent questions: what we leave behind, what is lost, what persists.

Finally, Robert Icke’s "Oedipus" returns to the Main Stage after last year’s sold out run, from 12 November to 13 December 2026. London’s West End, New York’s Broadway and the Onassis Stegi in Athens are among the stops of the multi-Tony-and-Olivier-award-winning production by the British playwright and director, who continues to create new versions, recently in Germany. Sophocles’ 428 BC drama about the relentless force of fate is reread through the prism of public image, responsibility, power and the human limit. With undiminished intensity, sardonic humour and scenes that balance between political thriller and family tragedy, the production returns with an exceptional cast, and with Nikos Kouris and Maria Kehagioglou in the roles of Oedipus and Jocasta. Charged with political, social and existential intensity, this electrifying version of the myth of Oedipus returns as a performance not to be missed. Advance sales have begun and seats are already limited.

The full programme of the season and ticket pre-booking for all productions will be announced in September, with new spaces, new collaborations and new experiences.