SAAL Biennaal 2025 on 21-30 August in Tallinn!
A group of friends gathering at the beach. Making a fire, chatting, cooling bottles in water, letting them twirl around in waves between the rocks. Calling for an urgency of shared poetics, they transcribe their worlds onto the wet sand, drawing lines and patterns with their fingers. They trace overlapping maps of who we’ve been and who we are becoming, acknowledging those who have lingered here for a while and others yet to arrive. Perhaps not measurable by grams or metres, the beach will consist of those maps for futures to come, reaching towards other coastlines of this sea. In tides and in spite of waves.
Curated by Kanuti Gildi SAAL’s collective, the program of SAAL Biennaal is not brought together in one handwriting. This year, the festival is excited to trace patterns of love, erotics, moshing, destruction and rage, finding new friends amongst familiar faces and rhythms of collective memory. It’s a festival constructed like sand that you carry home in your shoes.
Since we couldn’t wait to share the program with you, we’ve announced four performances earlier—in August you’ll get the chance to see performances by Netti Nüganen, Michikazu Matsune, Ramona Nagabczyńska, Ásrún Magnúsdóttir, and Alexander Roberts. We’re announcing the full program in June, stay tuned!
Looking forward to seeing you in August,
Eneli, Heneliis, Henry, Kaie, Kaius, Kerly, Maarja, Mesike, Priit, and Siim