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Abstract. This article is concerned with different approaches to elastic shape optimization under stochastic loading. The underlying stochastic optimization strategy builds upon the methodology of two-stage stochastic programming. In fact, in the case of linear elasticity and quadratic objective functional our strategy leads to a computational cost which scales linearly in the number of linearly independent applied forces, even for a large set of realization of the random loading. We consider, besides minimization of the expectation value of suitable objective functionals, also two different risk-averse approaches, namely the expected excess and the excess probability. Numerical computations are performed using either a level-set approach representing implicit shapes of general topology in combination with composite finite elements to resolve elasticity in two and three dimensions, or a collocation boundary element approach, where polygonal shapes represent geometric details attached to a lattice and describing a perforated elastic domain. Topology optimization is performed using the concept of topological derivatives. We generalize this concept, and derive an analytical expression which takes into account the interaction between neighboring holes. This is expected to allow efficient and reliable optimization strategies of elastic objects with a large number of geometries details on a fine scale. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 90C15, 74B05, 65N30, 65N38, 34E08, 49K45.Keywords. shape optimization in elasticity, two-stage stochastic programming, risk averse optimization, level set method, boundary element method, topological derivative.