Svampfestivalen 2026 is a multi-thematic celebration of all things fungi, with activities suited for all ages and knowledge levels, at the unique space of Frihamnstorget.
General Entrance includes fungi-themed lectures, installations, performances, market, food & drink options, and an after party!
For the workshops and movie screening you need to buy a specific ticket, but it includes general entrance with it! See workshops & movie:
LECTURES
Martin Benson, Nicole Arthur, Marian Benavides
13:00 - 13:15
Welcome Address
Martin Benson (Svampfarmen), curator of Svampfestivalen 2026, and Nicole Arthur and Marian Benavides (Third Skin), producers of Svampfestivalen 2026, welcome you to the fourth edition of Stockholm Mushroom Festival!
13:30-14:45
Psilocybin Mushrooms: History and Scientific Renaissance
From ancient rituals to today's clinical research: psilocybin mushrooms have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, and are now making a powerful re-entry into science and public debate. In this lecture, Filip Bromberg takes us on a journey through the history of mushrooms and the renaissance of psychedelic research, while raising his gaze towards the existential, spiritual and cultural questions that are becoming increasingly urgent in a time of growing anxiety and search for meaning. What can these mushrooms teach us about consciousness, healing and our place in the world, both as individuals and as a society?
About the speaker:
Filip Bromberg is a licensed psychologist and one of Sweden's leading voices in psychedelic science and therapy, with over ten years of experience in the field. He is co-founder and former chairman of the Network for Psychedelic Science, and has worked since 2021 to facilitate psychedelic group processes and build community around these issues.
Filip Bromberg
Peter Hultén
15:30-16:30
Mushroom Poison
Peter Hultén, one of the authors of the first mushroom book on Poisonous Mushrooms and Mushroom Poisons, will lecture on some of the most poisonous mushrooms we have in Swedish nature.
About the speaker:
Peter has lectured on poisonous mushrooms for several years and has been active at the Swedish Poison Information Center for over 25 years. He has also been a lecturer on the mushroom consultant training during the most recent training courses. Peter has also read the two mycology courses given by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala.
17:15-18:15
Mushroom forest for everyone -About mushrooms as natural values
Sometimes you don't see the forest for all the trees. And maybe it's not even the trees that are most important? Mushrooms are in many ways the prerequisite for healthy and stable environments and are often good signal species that show other values than just the cubic meter price of pulpwood. What do we want with our forest? Is it reasonable that forestry determines the land use of half the country's surface. Are there other interests and values that weigh just as heavily - or more heavily?
About the speaker:
Patrick Björck is an economist by trade. He has also taught in adult education, at colleges and universities and at folk high schools, with, among other things, the country's first mushroom education courses eligible for student funding. He is a co-founder of the international network of mushroom and plant identifiers in poisoning cases and was one of those who fact-checked the latest book on poisonous mushrooms. Mushrooms and nature conservation are major interests.
Patrick Björck
INSTALLATIONS
Elastica Symbiotica — In Search for The Garden of Fiber Delights
A colourful world emerges through different textile techniques and materials. A garden of fibre delights in which to rest and find nourishment. Here, Amandah L’Narte creates a place inhabited by contemporary spirits, fairy tales and unexpected adventures. Visitors of all ages are invited to pause amid the noise and encounter the imagination in this textile world. The project came to life during the artist’s master’s studies in textile art on the CRAFT! programme at Konstfack and was first shown at the 2022 Konstfack Degree Exhibition. It was later presented as a solo exhibition at Konstväxlingar, Odenplan, Stockholm, in 2023 and 2024.
About the artist:
Amandah L'Narte (b. 1989) is an artist, illustrator and designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Trained at Beckmans College of Design (BFA, fashion design) and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (MFA, textile art), she moves between painting, textile art, illustration and pattern design. Her work has been shown at Millesgården, Svenskt Tenn, Galleri Sintra and Nikolaj Kunsthal, among others, and in 2023–2024 she created the installation Elastica Symbiotica at Odenplan as part of Region Stockholm's public art programme in the metro. She has received thirteen grants and completed commissions for clients including Amnesty, H&M, Absolut Vodka and SAS. Recurring in her practice are the garden, a place of rest and nourishment, and the sphircles, hybrid beings of human, animal and plant origin that move through her world as guides.
Amandah L’Narte
The Art of Spore Printing
This collection of work explores the relationship between growth, decay, beauty and impermanence. Each piece is a collaboration between the artist, Jacob Matthew Dix, and nature, using billions of delicate, microscopic mushroom spores as a medium for communicating artistic vision. Jacob combines spore printing with digital and painting techniques for a rich variety of expressive possibilities.
About the artist:
Jacob is a multimedia artist who enjoys a wide range of techniques of artistic expression. Currently, he is working with digital tools, ironing beads, and mushroom printing.
Jacob Mathew Dix
Roberto Noel and Marque Gilmore (MYCELIUM SOUND SYSTEM)
MYCELIUM RESONANCE
What if you could hear the mushrooms? Mycelium Resonance is an audiovisual work bringing fungi, art, sound, light and technology into conversation. The work explores new ways of listening to the living world.
It will be presented on the Main Stage screen during the opening hour of the festival, with excerpts appearing between lectures throughout the day.
Look out for the MYCELIUM SOUND SYSTEM QR code during the festival to discover more about the artists and support their work.
About the artist:
Multi-instrumentalists Roberto Noel and Marque Gilmore, under the name MYCELIUM SOUND SYSTEM, bring their sound-based work to the festival, exploring the relationship between fungi, technology and music. Their work includes sound and audiovisual material inspired by and generated from the electrical activity of living organisms and the process of translating these signals into sound.
Anne Amgren
AmgrenArt
Anna is an artist who blends traditional techniques, digital innovation, and a deep spiritual connection. Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, she has spent over 30 years exploring art’s endless possibilities. As a digital nomad, she draws inspiration from the diverse cultures and landscapes around the globe.
Her work fuses painting, photography, and digital art. By employing automatic drawing, sometimes with closed eyes, she creates intuitive, raw pieces that are transformed digitally with photographic layers, nature details, and animation. The result is colorful, vibrant, symbol-rich art that reveals hidden energies and spirits.
Nature, meditation, and yoga fuel her creativity. Anna has embraced NFTs to share her animated works with a wider audience, inviting viewers to experience connection and positive energy.
PERFORMANCES
19:00-20:00
BRYGGOR AV LJUS
Circus, music, and movement meet the city’s architecture as Bryggor av ljus takes over the Cirksuplatån at Frihamnstorget. Directed and artistically led by Jacob Westin, together with a changing ensemble of highly skilled circus artists, the performance creates a landscape where balance, height, and physical risk meet light and the pulse of the city. Magic emerges between, above, and around the Circus Plateau—a performance in constant motion, where the temporary and ever-changing become part of the story.
Director & Artistic Director: Jacob Westin
Circus Artists: Simon Wiborn, Kristina Solantaji, Irene Gregoriou, with more to be announced
Musicians: Joseph Wallin, Moriss Hirdman
Multiple Artists
DANCE
Helena Lambert and Katarina Rosén
15:30-18:00
Drop-in dance clinic
Come and dance with Dansakuten, discover how movement can reflect the hidden web of life that sprouts beneath the surface of the earth and let your body become part of the ecosystem's endless changes of life and renewal! At the drop-in dance clinic Dansakuten, dance meetings are offered that are inspired by the small wonders that grow from the earth, spread their spores and contribute to the ecosystem's cycles of growth and renewal. Dance doctors Helena Lambert and Katarina Rosén invite you to short dance meetings where each visitor receives a tailor-made dance as an expression of their unique place in nature's great cycle.
Dansakuten is an art project designed by Helena Lambert and Katarina Rosén.
FOOD & DRINKS
12:00-22:00
The Amanita
Svampfestivalen proudly presents The Amanita, where chef Jack Guyonvarch will wield his magic. Normally the head chef at Caffe Nizza, he will make four dishes with mushrooms center stage, both filling and elegant - "Folksy fine dining". There will also be a wine selection and local beer and cider, and non-alcoholic äppelmust from Rosenhill. The Amanita will be open from 12 to 22.
12:00-01:00
The Devil's Tooth Winebar
The festival also presents The Devil's Tooth Wine Bar, spearheaded by wine mage Daniel Wirtberg. The bar will serve a broad selection of wines from small scale producers, along with hyper local beer from Stockholm Brewing (located about 100m away) and cider and of course the famous Rosenhill äppelmust. The Devil's Tooth will stay open until 01:00 (though inside the circus hall from 22-01).
AFTER PARTY: FIESTA DEL BOSQUE
22:00-01:00
From 22:00 onwards, right after the screening of the movie ‘‘Hijas del Bosque’’, the indoor stage turns into a forest-themed after party for Svampfestivalen 2026.
Dance the night away with fellow mushroom-lovers in our newly-inaugurated indoor space!
Drinks available for purchase.