Urban Artist Inti's Mural Art at Boreal 2025

Inti, an internationally renowned Chilean muralist, will leave his artistic mark on the eighteenth edition of the Boreal Festival, which will be held in Los Silos (Tenerife) from September 17 to 21. The music festival has always been known for going beyond music in its activities, and in 2025 it will delve into large-format muralism, visual arts, and contemporary performing arts.

The Chilean muralist will be painting a public space in Los Silos during the week of the festival. Boreal Festival has left an artistic mark on several spaces in the town of Los Silos and other municipalities that have participated in the festival, such as Buenavista del Norte. Through muralism and various exhibitions, the music festival has contributed much more than just music to Los Silos. The Mural Art of Urban Artist Inti

Inti Castro began his work in 1996 on the streets of Valparaíso (Chile). He has now established himself as a leading figure in Latin American muralism, and his murals can be seen on five continents. Influenced by pre-Columbian American cultures, graffiti, and the social muralism of the 1970s, his compositions are based on religious syncretism, the phenomenon that unites different cultures into one, by force or absorption, as occurred in pre-Columbian America with the imposition of the Catholic religion during the conquest.
In syncretism, he found an excuse to play with the Western imaginary, blurring its boundaries and blending it with the everyday life of the Third World, in an attempt to sanctify the common and the pagan, and vice versa. In this imaginary world filled with borrowed iconography and pagan gods, Inti plays with cultural diversity, its contradictions, and absurdities.
18 Years of Art Gives You a Lot of Art

In addition to the mural and creative workshop offerings, Festival Boreal 2025 adds the group exhibition "18 Years of Art at Boreal. A Retrospective and Multidisciplinary Collective." In this way, Boreal reviews the artworks that have been featured in the various visual arts exhibitions, installations, and creations over the festival's nearly two decades. The exhibition will be a carefully curated selection curated by its artistic director, Javier Jiménez.
This group show is comprised of works created exclusively for Festival Boreal by 30 artists from up to 20 countries. A multidisciplinary collection that brings together artworks that have been featured in collective exhibitions over the years, from exhibitions such as "This is Not a Zoo," "Art on Skateboard," "20/30," "Nosotras, Latinoamericanas," or from individual shows, installations, and paintings created during the festival's various editions.
The artists featured in this exhibition include world-renowned artists such as Saner, Pixel Pancho, Faith XLVII, Isaac Cordal, Jade Rivera, and Fintan Magee; groundbreaking artists and activists such as Bordalo II and Sam3; innovative works by Add Fuel, Aheneah, and Laurence Vallières; and Canary Islands artists such as Lía Ateca and Mireia Tramunt.

This exhibition is free to view and can be seen in the Pérez Enríquez Hall of the former convent of San Sebastián de Los Silos. It will be open from September 15 to 28.
Contemporary Performing Arts

Furthermore, Festival Boreal continues to strengthen its partnership with LAV Canarias (Laboratory of Living Arts and Citizenship of the Canary Islands), a platform dedicated to promoting and protecting living arts in the Canary Islands. A permanent project dedicated to the creation, research, production, mediation, exhibition, and development of cultural practices and policies surrounding contemporary performing arts and their direct and active relationship with citizens.
Festival Boreal and LAV-C are contexts that, through their distinct approaches, make a firm and sustained commitment to supporting the performing arts and their close relationship with citizens and the region. This is the case in this eighteenth edition, where the alliance between the two cultural entities will result in an artist residency during the festival and the premiere of 'LODO' with Ninf.A and Élida Dorta.

'LODO' explores the limits of communication and identity in a present of two divas that leaves no room for preconceived notions. Between shiny fabrics, crochet, spoken and sung text, tapping and music, gestures and care, these two artists converse with body and voice. Boreal Festival, a benchmark festival in the Canary Islands

Boreal Festival has established itself as a benchmark cultural event in the Canary Islands, having received several awards throughout its history. Among its most recent recognitions is the award for "Best Musical Programming" at the 2024 Canary Islands Music Awards. Furthermore, it was recognized by the Observatory of Culture in Spain among the exemplary projects in 2024 for their commitment to social and sustainable development, and among the best cultural projects in the rural world in 2024.
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