By LoffMusic Editorial Staff – July 2025
Festival Boreal has never been just another festival. Since its origins, this cultural encounter in Los Silos (Tenerife) has stood out from the noise to propose something deeper: a celebration of music, arts and territory. And in its 18th edition, to be held from September 17 to 21, 2025, it not only confirms its maturity, but also reaffirms its character as a multidisciplinary, activist and deeply contemporary event.
🎨 Inti leaves its mark in Los Silos
One of the highlights will be the participation of Chilean artist Inti Castro, one of the most influential figures of urban muralism worldwide. Trained in the streets of Valparaíso and with works in the five continents, Inti combines religious syncretism, pre-Columbian iconography and graffiti aesthetics with a powerful and social discourse.
During the days of the festival, the artist will intervene a public space in Los Silos, adding his signature to a town already full of art thanks to previous editions of Boreal. The result will be a permanent work that will condense centuries of culture on a single wall, dialoguing with the present and leaving a visible legacy for the future.
🖼️ Group exhibition: 18 years of art at Boreal
As part of the anniversary, Boreal opens the exhibition ’18 years of art at Boreal’, a collective and multidisciplinary retrospective with works by more than 30 artists from up to 20 countries. The exhibition, curated by artistic director Javier Jimenez, will be open from September 15 to 28 in the Perez Enriquez hall of the former convent of San Sebastian.
Internationally renowned figures such as Faith XLVII, Fintan Magee, Saner, PixelPancho, Bordalo II or AddFuel will share space with Canarian artists such as Lía Ateca or Mireia Tramunt, demonstrating that contemporary art can be as local as it is global.
🎭 ‘LODO’, a queer avant-garde stage show
In its commitment to the living arts, the festival renews its alliance with LAV Canarias, a platform dedicated to the promotion of performing arts and citizenship. From this collaboration comes an artistic residency during the festival and the premiere of ‘LODO’, a creation of Ninf.A and Élida Dorta.
This performance piece breaks the mold: it mixes spoken word, shiny fabrics, crochet, electronic music and body politics to talk about identity, communication and desire from a non-binary and radically honest point of view. A performance that challenges the normative with tenderness, rage and humor.
🌱 Much more than music: a benchmark for sustainability
Awarded as the festival most committed to diversity, gender equality and sustainability at the Iberian Festival Awards and the Canary Islands Music Awards, Boreal is today a model to follow. It has shown that the rural world can also innovate, generate critical discourse and build culture from below, with an international vocation and solid values.
In addition to its musical program (yet to be announced), Boreal 2025 will continue to focus on ecology, equity and shared creation as the cornerstones of a necessary festival. One that celebrates beauty without renouncing criticism. One that paints murals, dances and looks at the world with eyes wide open.
