Konträr bites

A conversation with Hella Nathorst Böös, author, stylist, photographer and witch, whose mission is to share knowledge and inspiration about magic, the history of witchcraft and medicinal plants. She is a member of the Malin Matsdotters Örtagård association that is bringing at Konträr DÖD UPPRÄTTELSE LÄKNING: a full day and evening of healing, dedicated to the wounds left by the witch trials. 

Malin Matsdotter’s Herb Garden is a memorial to the victims of Stockholm’s witch trials. Through conversations, ceremony, witch brews and wild dancing, the Herb Garden Association invites you to a magical festival where we heal the wounds and honour the victims. 

Host & Interview: Bianca Intonti

Audio post-production: MoodGarden

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Music: Paul Yudin, #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/during-the-rain

A conversation with Andrej Nosov, theater director, activist and founder of the institution Heartefact based in Belgrade. He directed the performance KOSTYA – THE BALLAD OF PIGS AND SEAGULLS that recently premiered at Konträr.

Nothing you make will outlive the week. The world cleans its surfaces every morning – quickly, precisely, almost synthetically. So: one disillusioned pig. One dead writer. One new theatre that vanishes in the very act of its becoming.

The play is inspired by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s The Seagull.

The performance is part of the project Political Loneliness – a collaboration between Sweets & Heartefact. The project has previously resulted in the performance Art & Money by Freja Hallberg, which is now part of the recurring repertoire in Belgrade and has been presented in both Belgrade and Stockholm. The productions have been funded by the Swedish Institute.

Host & Interview: Bianca Intonti

Audio post-production: MoodGarden

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Music: Paul Yudin, #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/during-the-rain

A conversation with Linda Forsell, Swedish artist and one of the founding artistic leaders of ⁠⁠Konträr⁠⁠. She recently presented on Konträr’s stage the performance THE ESCAPE ROOM, created and performed in collaboration with Adrian Kautsky and Ambrose Watts.

A surreal adventure in to your inner world. Entering what first appears to be a classical escape room, the audience encounters riddles, symbols and hidden clues. They are met by three psychopomps – guides between the conscious and the unconscious. As the performance unfolds, the space gradually transforms into a dreamlike inner landscape where the boundaries between reality and imagination begin to dissolve.

Rooted in the artistic team’s lived experiences of existential distress, serious illness and gender transition, The Escape Room explores personal transformation through an immersive theatrical experience. The performance questions contemporary therapeutic paradigms that frame the self as something to optimize and repair and time as something to be controlled and maximised. Inspired by surrealism, the work approaches the dream not as an escape from reality, but as a form of resistance. The result is an enchanting, humorous, and existential experience, an invitation not to escape, but to enter the unknown.

Host & Interview: Bianca Intonti

Audio post-production: MoodGarden

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Music: Paul Yudin, #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/during-the-rain

A conversation with Marie Karlberg, writer and director of I’M JUST A SYMPTOM OF A MORAL DECAY, that was recently presented at Konträr.

The year is 2089, and most of the world has been burnt to a crisp. Survivors embrace servitude for subsistence. In one household, Loosey (Marie Karlberg) has a compulsive need for sex – a new social norm. She keeps two servants: GiGi (Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski), loyal to the bitter end, and Poor Boi (Sigrid Windolf), an apathetic and rebellious alcoholic who can’t stop singing a song that came out in 1975.

Host & Interview: Bianca Intonti

Audio post-production: MoodGarden

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Music: Paul Yudin, #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/during-the-rain

A conversation recorded live from Konträr in which Jenny Jensen interviews Elin Skarin for "Contemporary Actors Studio" a talk show to discuss the methods and professional life of artists.

Elin Skarin is an actor who has, among other things, been described as “one of Sweden’s most extreme actors” (GP 2025), and who often works in co-creative collective processes as well as creating her own works. At Konträr, she created the piece Actor in a Cage with the group Administrationen (2023). She is also one of the members of the art and theatre collective KonstAB.

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A conversation recorded live from Konträr in which Jenny Jensen interviews Mattias Lech for "Contemporary Actors Studio" a talk show to discuss the methods and professional life of artists.

Mattias Lech is an actor and director who creates original works through exploratory collective processes. At Konträr, he has been a co-creator and performer in Baywatch (2022 & 2026) and Bråk (2023–2025), and has also performed in his and Lisen Ellard’s work Döden (2022).

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A conversation recorded live from Konträr in which Jenny Jensen interviews Sepideh Khodarahmi for "Contemporary Actors Studio" a talk show to discuss the methods and professional life of artists.

Sepideh Khodarahmi is a dancer, actor, director and performance artist. Khodarahmi created SMASH COLLECTIVE – The Erotic Clown (2024), participated in Keeping ip with the Iranians (2024) and performed her performance Cakesitting (2024) at KONTRÄR.The conversation is in Swedish.

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A conversation with Mille Bostedt, writer and director of HYBRID , a post-human musical, that premiered in February in Konträr.

HYBRID is a newly written musical, with music by Tami T, about not identifying as human, but as something else. It invites audiences into an Alice in Wonderland universe where humans undergo radical transformations, not only of their bodies, but of their entire existence.

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A conversation with Jenny Möller Jensen, Swedish actress and one of the founding artistic directors of the independent stage ⁠Konträr⁠ in Stockholm.

At Konträr, she recently presented the performance A SWEDISH MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, that she created and performerd in collaboration with Janna Granström and Nils Närman Svensson.

A satirical and surreal summer performance created by the team behind Konträr’s Christmas show, where this time the audience is invited to witness a traditional Swedish Midsummer celebration.

On the brightest night of the year, lovers and merry Midsummer revelers wander into the woods. Who is in love with whom, or what, becomes less relevant the deeper into the night they go. Dances are danced, flowers are picked, the maypole is raised, and fertility is celebrated. Midsummer night is the night when societal order is challenged—nature, myths, and sexuality take center stage, and the schnapps flow most abundantly. Midsummer night is the night when fairies dance in the meadows…

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A conversation with With Ella Schartner, Alexander de Sousa and Freja Hallberg, respectively actors and director of the performance RATHAUS, recently presented at Konträr.

Two acts about execution, what we allow – and what we become.

Set within an absurd and unsettlingly bureaucratic universe, the work explores the relationship between everyday systems and systemic violence — not as something observed, but as something the audience is placed inside.

The performance moves from trivial office routines to actions with irreversible consequences. What initially appears administrative, rational and neutral gradually shifts into something deeply human — and deeply disturbing.

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