Stockholm Fringe Festival
Date: – August
Time: Thursday—Saturday
Location: Stadsmuseet, Slussen
Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) is an art festival where both local and international artists present innovative works.
Experience highlights from today’s art scene in the museum courtyard, indoors in the auditorium and on the streets.
Tickets
Tickets must be booked in advance via STOFF:
Stockholm Fringe Festivals website
Clownsejd (Sweden)
- Thursday, August 28 at 6.30—7.50pm
- Saturday, August 30 at 2.30—3.50pm
Location: Auditorium, floor 2
Price: SEK 175/100
Languages: Swedish, English
Performing artist/group: Rebecka Cardoso, Hans Sandquist
Recommended age: 16+
Clownsejd combines shamanistic techniques of travelling to other worlds with clown/mask-technique, to explore new ways of seeking answers to existential questions and provide comfort, joy and creative madness.
The performance is built around the questions put by the audience/questioners and is completely improvised. Through humor and ceremonial singing and with the clown's naive outlook on the world, Rebecka Cardoso seeks to create a space for collective processing of grief, worry and longing.
Clownsejd is created by Rebecka Cardoso, actor, director and play-wright with over twenty years in professional theatre. Cardoso is also a mystic, with spiritual, ritual spaces as one of her biggest interests. Also performing is Hans Sandquist, who moderates the conversation in the role of The Anchor.
Clownsejd was rewarded the “Peoples Choice Award” and was nominated in the category "Best innovation in performance" at Stockholm Fringe Festival 2024.
Torso Projekt (Finland)
- Thursday 28 August 3—3.30pm
- Friday 29 August 3—3.30pm
- Saturday August 30 3—3.30pm
Location: Museum courtyard
Price: book free ticket
Language: N/A
Performing artist/group: Sara Airola & Yxpila Circus Club
Recommended age: 6+
Torso Projekt is an absurd and curious circus performance that combines music, hoops, a doll, a chair, and a vacuum cleaner, partly based on improvisation and physical theatre, inviting you to stop, breathe, and open all your senses.
The movement of the performance is leaning on a soundscape created live on stage using a wine glass, theremin, old radios and a saxophone.
On stage: Sara Airola, Mikko-Ilari Ojala.
Blank Maps (Italy)
- Thursday, August 28 at 8.30—9.30pm (in Italian)
- Friday, August 29 at 8.30—9.30pm (in English)
Location: Museum courtyard
Price: SEK 150/100
Languages: English, Italian
Performing artist/group: Il Milione
Recommended age: 5+
Thick morning fog, a market tent, and a map of maps. And three questions: Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from?
Blank Maps is a journey out of time, telling the story of two old friends searching for something very precious they’ve lost.
Blank Maps has received nominations and won awards at both the Catania and Milan Fringe 2024, followed by guest performances at, among others, Avignon Off (France) in 2025, as well as this year’s editions of the Gothenburg and Stockholm Fringe festivals.
The show is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.
War Daughter (Sweden)
- Friday August 29, 6.30—7.30pm
Location: Auditorium, floor 2
Price: SEK 100/80
Languages: English, Swedish
Performing artist/group: JP Bichard and Ala Riani with Savaş Boyraz and Timimie Gassko Märak
“War Daughter” brings together film and the spoken word: a screening of JP Bichard and Ala Riani’s short art film “War Daughter”, a short film by artist and academic Savaş Boyraz, a reading from Ala Riani’s book “Krigets dotter” and a spoken word piece by Sami poet and performance artist Timimie Gassko Märak.
The artists and performers are activists who engage indigenous, gender and “othered” rights through film, literature and education.
The works are about displacement, embedded histories and identity through the endurance of stories, experiences and memories.
After the screenings and performances, a moderated conversation with the artists around the themes and issues raised by the artworks plus a Q&A session with the audience, hosted by performance artist Felicia Bichard.
The show was inspired by Ala Riani’s book “Kriget’s dotter” on her upbringing as a child from eastern Kurdistan (Iran).
Walk of Shame — A Scandalous City Tour of Stockholm
- Thursday August 28, 6.30—8pm (in Swedish)
- Saturday, August 30, 4—5.30pm (in English)
Location: Södermalm, Old Town (Gamla stan)
Price: SEK 200/150
Languages: Swedish, English
Recommended age: 14+
Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather!
A site-specific and interactive city walk with burlesque icon Fräulein Frauke. Join her on a glamorous, sensual, informative, and shocking journey through Stockholm’s forgotten and sinful history.
Frauke guides you through stories of showgirls, famous and unknown courtesans, the local history of burlesque, secret brothels, the concept of “Swedish Sin,” and Malmskillnadsgatan – past and present.
The walk ends in Stockholm’s red-light district.
Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF)
Experience the 16th edition of STOFF from August 27—30 with over 200 program events. From burlesque city walks to raw stand-up and political theatre — Stockholm Fringe 2025 offers bold performances in rebellion!
The festival is supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm, and the City of Stockholm’s Cultural Administration.