About

Liisa Saaremäel is a performance artist from Tallinn, Estonia. After earning a BA in Acting from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT), she joined the Estonian Drama Theatre, where she worked 2016-2020 as an ensemble member. After obtaining an MA degree in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) in EAMT, she is worked as a freelance artist in Estonia and internationally and currently has joined Von Krahl Theatre ensemble. Her practice focuses on societal co-existence from an individual’s perspective, in which compressed space is an essential poetic component. Her work often exists conventional performance spaces to explore in-between areas of performance art. Her process is characterized by a strong focus on site-specificity and community-based approaches, which are deeply embedded in her artistic outcomes. A central theme in her work is the desire to blur the lines between fiction and reality.

Liisa recently created a physical performance "Monoliit Estonia" (2025) in Von Krahl Theatre, a material-based performance "What Are Little Girls Made Of" (2025) in Kanuti Gildi SAAL in collaboration with Keithy Kuuspu. Besides her own artistic projects Liisa has taken part as a performer in many theatre pieces, lately "Victory Over The Sun" (in collaboration with Showcase Beat Le Mot) in HAU2 and in Johhan Rosenberg's physical performance "night's due" (2026) in Von Krahl Theatre.

She has been nominated 6 times to Annual Awards of Estonian Theatre and won in 2022 the prize of best performance art piece with her site-specific performance “Tiny Home Production presents: LARGER-THAN-LIFE” (2021) that took place in the Garage Cooperation in Paljassaare, Tallinn. In 2024 she was awarded with Ants Lauter prize for outstanding work in performance field.