SAAL Biennaal 2025 | Alissa Šnaider, Arolin Raudva „5 GESTURES TOWARDS...“ / elektron.art
Thursday 28. August at 20:30 - 21:30
Kanuti Guild Hall, Tallinn
5 GESTURES TOWARDS… focuses on the intent to illuminate unseen labor, offering artists a platform to explore, fail, and rediscover. Two artists, Alissa Šnaider and Arolin Raudva, each with their unique methods of working, will meet for the first time and share a studio. Alissa, one of the initiators and dramaturg of the series, now steps into the conditions of the work, inhabiting the very form she helped create. This is a radical form of trust, where dramaturgy becomes a performative act of presence. By the end of the journey, they will host an open studio event that might take any shape or format, and may occur in any medium. You’re invited to experience a one-time only situation, constellation, incident, or event.
Alissa Šnaider is a dramaturg, choreographer, and artist who inhabits the spaces between movement, memory, and silence. Her work is an ongoing experiment in unknowing, where gestures and images are not just representations but active processes that unfold with time. Alissa’s practice moves between disciplines, each project an invitation to witness something in the making – not the finished product, but the act of becoming. Her work is shaped by a deep trust in uncertainty, a belief that meaning is not something to be fixed but to be lived with.
Arolin Raudva is a dancer, choreographer, and performance artist. Her choices are primarily driven by an interest in people, shared spaces (of thought), and collective synergy. She is curious about how an artist’s philosophy and intellectual content are practically realized in everyday creative work. Arolin seeks the core, always eager to question further and dig deeper. Her practice is rooted in honesty, playfulness, and trust. She creates spaces where people can coexist – spaces that, in themselves, become active creative practices, something that can be observed and attempted to be captured. Throughout most of her artistic journey, she has worked within collectives and values creativity where hierarchy is absent and the work takes shape through delicate and exploratory fine-tuning.
Artists from previous editions: Claudia Lepik, Maxim Mjödov, Sveta Grigorjeva, Mikhail Pashchuk, Raul Keller, Kärt Koppel, Laivi Suurväli, Krõõt Juurak, Marta Vaarik, Gregor Kulla, Jaan Evart, Hendrik Kaljujärv, Riina Maidre, Marto Mägi, Kymbali Williams, Liisamari Viik, Viktoria Martjanova, Maxim Nikanorov, Israel Bañuelos, etc
Dramaturge: Alissa Šnaider
Photo/video: Alissa Šnaider
Graphic design: Jaan Evart
Project manager: Hendrik Kaljujärv, Annika Üprus, Anu Almik
Outside eye: Maarja Kalmre, Anita Kremm
Special guest: Karl Joonas Alamaa
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn City and Ministry of Culture
Special thanks: everyone who has contributed with unique and unforeseen special effects within each Gesture…
Kanuti Guild Hall • Pikk tänav 20, 10133 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
