Illustration: Lilian Bäckman.

Stockholm Fringe Festival

Date: August

Time: Thursday–Saturday

Location: Stadsmuseet, Slussen

Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) is an arts festival featuring new work by local and international artists.

Experience dance, theatre and performance in the museum courtyard, indoors in the auditorium and on the streets of Stockholm.

Photo: Oskar Luko.

The Not-So-Green Man

Dance performance with Sanna Toivanen and Oskar Luko, Spain

Time: 27 & 29 August, 2.00–2.50 pm
Venue: Stockholm City Museum courtyard
Price: Free admission. Optional donation via Swish

Time: 28 August, 6.00–6.50 pm
Venue: Stockholm City Museum courtyard
Price: SEK 150

Language: English and other languages
Age: Recommended for ages 8+

Experience a dance and theatre performance with humour, music and movement. A dancer with a head made of plants takes you on a heartfelt tribute to nature and Mother Earth.

Enjoy classic hits from the 1980s and 1990s, traditional Basque songs and perhaps even join in a karaoke session.

Presented with the support of the Embassy of Spain in Stockholm.

Photo: Lioba Schöneck.

Sphere

Dance installation by Johannes Lind & Mariateresa Molino, Sweden

Time: 27–28 August, 3.00–3.15 pm
Venue: Stockholm City Museum courtyard
Price: Free admission. Optional donation via Swish
Language: Non-verbal
Age: Suitable for all ages

Experience a dance performance where four dancers move with a giant white sphere. They carry, roll, throw and balance it in different ways.

As the performance unfolds, both the movements and the relationships between the dancers change. Sphere explores community, cooperation and trust. The giant sphere becomes a symbol of how we depend on one another.

Photo: Alex Sfangos.

22 stops

Walking performance with Katerina Drakopoulou, Greece

Time: 27–29 August, 5.00–6.00 pm
Venue: Around the city. Starts in the Stockholm City Museum courtyard.
Language: Non-verbal
Price: SEK 120 / 90
Age: Suitable for all ages

Join a choreographed walk through the city. At 22 selected locations, the dancer stops and creates movements inspired by each place and by what is happening there at that moment. Even the smallest details become part of the performance.

You can follow the whole walk or just part of it. Walk at your own pace and keep whatever distance feels comfortable. Inspired by the Butoh tradition, the performance invites you to slow down and see the city in a new way. We recommend wearing comfortable walking shoes.

Photo: Ioulia Ladogianni.

Butoh

Workshop with Katerina Drakopoulou, Greece

Time: 29 August, 12.00–1.30 pm
Venue: Auditorium, Floor 2
Language: English
Price: SEK 120 / 90
Age: Recommended for ages 16+

Explore your body through movement, stillness and imagination. In this Butoh-inspired workshop, you will try simple exercises that help you become more aware of your body and your surroundings.

You will work with slow movement, improvisation and different ways of expressing yourself. The workshop is led by Katerina Drakopoulou and is suitable for both performers and beginners. No previous experience is needed.

Photo: Navid Afzalnia.

Challenging gender markers. What is a masculine gesture?

Dance workshop with Israel Aloni and Victor Persson, Sweden

Time: 29 August, 2.00–5.00 pm
Venue: Auditorium, Floor 2
Language: English
Price: SEK 170 / 120. Maximum 15 participants.
Age: Recommended for ages 18+

Are you curious about how masculinity can be expressed through movement? Then this workshop is for you. It is open to people who identify as men. No previous experience of dance or performing arts is needed.

Try movement exercises and improvisation with Israel Aloni and Victor Persson from ilDance. The workshop is based on material from the performance Boys Just Want to Have Fun. It begins with The I. Aloni Experience, a movement practice developed by Israel Aloni over the past 25 years. The workshop ends with a group discussion.

Registration

After booking, we will send a registration form by email. If there is more than one participant, each person must complete their own form.

Photo: Mario Leko.

Still a Bird

Dance theatre with Rebecca Lenaerts, Belgium

Time: 27 August, 3.00–4.30 pm
Venue: Stockholm City Museum courtyard
Language: Non-verbal
Price: Free admission. Optional donation via Swish
Age: Recommended for ages 5+

Still a Bird explores the meeting between nature and the city, reality and imagination.

In mythology, the Bird Woman guards the boundary between the human and animal worlds. Follow her on a journey between people, animals and dreams. Her cloak is made from found feathers that Rebecca Lenaerts collected and stitched on by hand over nine months.

På hjul (On Wheels)

Art exhibition with Mycelium, Ukraine

Time: 27–29 August, 11 am–5.00 pm
Venue: Stockholm City Museum courtyard
Language: Non-verbal
Price: Free admission
Age: Recommended for ages 5+

På hjul is a mobile gallery exploring transience, movement and the possibilities of art beyond traditional institutional spaces.

Untethered to a permanent address, the gallery appears in different parts of the city, becoming part of everyday urban life and creating new ways to encounter contemporary art. Rather than waiting for an audience to arrive, På hjul brings the exhibition directly into the city.

Its name – Swedish for “On Wheels” – refers not only to the structure’s physical mobility, but also to an increasingly familiar reality: one in which stability can no longer be taken for granted and permanence gives way to temporary ways of living and existing.

The mobile gallery was conceived and first presented in Tranås as part of the 13th edition of Tranås at the Fringe Festival 2026, marking the 10th annual circuit of the Baltic Nordic Fringe Network.

The project was realised with the support of Norhedsstiftelsen and in collaboration with Kultivera.

Experience the whole seventeenth edition of STOFF from 26 to 29 August, with hundreds of performances and events across Stockholm.

The festival is supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm and the Stockholm City Culture Administration.

Accessibility

This event is wheelchair and stroller friendly.