Tove Salmgren is a Stockholm-based artist working across performance, dance, choreography, curatorial practices, text, and education. She has been active in the field of dance and choreography since 2002 and holds an MFA in Choreography/New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts (2015). In 2016, Salmgren co-founded Köttinspektionen dans in Uppsala with artist Kajsa Wadhia. The artist-driven platform explores dance and choreography as art forms, political practices, and relational spaces. Since 2016, she has also been part of the curatorial team behind Revolve, an annual performance festival in Uppsala.
Tove’s choreographic practice has evolved from her work as a performer and is driven by an interest in shifting perspectives and questioning what art—and non-art—can do and become. Her work often takes the form of small-scale interventions and simple structures that explore self-determination, freedom, and the emancipatory potential of the unknown. Her works include I Pretend That You Speak, MDT Stockholm (2014), We happen things: Objects and Speech (2015), MDT Stockholm, This Is Not a Performance, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017). Between 2015 and 2017, she collaborated with The Blob, a curatorial persona by Anna Efraimsson, through playful social and relational interventions that explored institutional structures and conventions in works such as Blobbing at The Promises of Monsters Conference (2016), Stavanger University, Blobbing (2017), Kunsthall Trondheim.
As a member of the performance trio Tender Motor, Tove co-create art works together with Moa Franzén and Kajsa Wadhia. The group works across performance, text and curatorial practices investigates connections between voice and body as choreographic material, addressing power relations, feminist critique, and the politicised body. Their works include From a Throat of Flesh (2018) , Choreo-vocal dialogues (2022), When Dancing Was Done with the Lungs (2022), Tender motor (2025), Tender Motor (durational) (2026). 2025-2026 the group is exploring their work through the artistic research project Sonorous dances and reverberent matters, located at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Since 2023 Tove is an Assistant Professor of Choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts alongside Head of Programme for the Master’s Programme in Choreography: New Performative Practices (NPP).