About us

Oslo Spektrum Arena AS, is an indoor arena located in centrum of Oslo.

When Norwegian and international artists visit Oslo, our arena is filled with both standing and seated audience. In addition to concerts the arena is hosting sport events, fairs, conferences, congresses as well as company events. Concerts and shows form the main part of Oslo Spektrum’s offer to the public.

Our maximum capacity on concerts with a combination of seated and standing audience is approximately 11,500. At smaller concerts our comprehensive draping system can split the arena into parts and adjust it to the size of the event.

The arena floor is about 5,000 square meters and can easily be adjusted to different events. Everything from standing/general admission concerts, fairs, conferences and congresses.

the arena opened in December 1990 and is today owned by Nova Spektrum.

The building concists of the arena and office space. The building mass and the plot of land that the building is situated on, is owned by the Nova Spektrum foundation.

Oslo Spektrum Arena AS
Sonja Henies pl. 2
0185 Oslo
Enterprice number: NO 920 709 141
Phone: +47 22 05 29 00
Email: resepsjon@oslospektrum.no

The arena opened in December of 1990 and had its first whole year of operations in 1991.

Oslo Spektrum was originally designed as Oslo City Hall and built as part of the effort to revitalize the area around “Grønland”. At the same time, the arena’s location was anchored in the municipality’s plan to try to move the centre of Oslo eastwards. The arena was to become a multi-purpose arena with international specifications, to be able to accommodate several different events, both national and international. Until Telenor Arena opened at Fornebu in 2009, Oslo Spektrum was the largest indoor arena in the Oslo area.

Together with the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, The Bus terminal, Oslo City, Oslo central station and Posthuset, Oslo Spektrum today forms a city-central hub.

Responsible architects from LPO Arkitektkontor AS were commissioned to design Oslo Spektrum. Great emphasis was placed on decorating the facade and print fragments of Rolf Nesch were to be used to emboss the arena’s outer brick cladding (facade). The work on decorating the facade was carried out in collaboration with visual artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard and ceramist Søren Ubisch. In 2004, Oslo Spektrum Arena received Oslo municipality’s award for good urban architecture.

In December 2005, the foundation Nova Spektrum took over as owner.