"Am Donnerstag startet das Elevate-Festival mit einem umfangreichen Diskurs- und Musikprogramm durch. FΓΌr die ganz Ungeduldigen gibt es eine Reihe von Kunstinstallationen zu sehen, die wie in den Vorjahren schon vor der offiziellen ErΓΆffnung das Stadtbild beleben."
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Sunday Daytime | Parkhouse, Graz
DJ Deadlift β&β Apua
Sibil
vince
jess_whereyouat
Alice
Olgica &β MilΓ¨s Borghese
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
Von 5. bis 8. MΓ€rz geht in Graz wieder das Elevate Festival mit wagemutiger Musik zwischen Club und Experimental-Abenteuer ΓΌber die BΓΌhnen. Das Diskursprogramm sucht diesmal unter dem Motto "Vital Signs" nach Lebenszeichen in gesellschaftlichen ErschΓΆpfungszustΓ€nden.
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Phase 3 Tickets now available!
Phase 1 (Early Bird) and Phase 2 (Regular Price) Tickets sold out!
This is your chance to secure your spot before we sell out completely. π₯
Donβt miss out β grab your tickets now! Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
Elevate Club Programme πͺ©
6 & 7 March 2026
Dom im Berg | PPC | GRNGR
Two nights. Three floors. Capacity is limited across all venues.
Don't miss it!
Full line-up & tickets β elevate.at
10 years Atropa @ Elevate 2026
Saturday, 7 March 2026 | GRNGR, Graz
Romain FX
Rena Volvo
Attila
Goldberg
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
The Future Is Not in Short Supply β Regenerative Economics Instead of Resignation Saturday, 7 March 2026 / Heimatsaal, Graz 16:30 - Free entry! The climate crisis is fading from public debate β not because it has been solved, but because other crises have grown louder. Political frameworks remain weak, transformation too slow, polarization too deep. The sense of inevitability grows. Yet the future is not scarce. Spaces for action exist beyond the false divide between economy and climate.
Where do concrete opportunities for regenerative economics lie? How can climate, social security, and economic stability be aligned? What decisions are needed to make transformation effective? In conversation: Ilona Otto, Georg GΓΌnsberg, and Baro Vicenta Ra Gabbert. Moderated by Katharina Kropshofer.
The Future Is Not in Short Supply β Regenerative Economics Instead of Resignation
SAT, 7 March 2026 / Heimatsaal, Graz
16:30 - Free entry!
In conversation: Ilona Otto, Georg GΓΌnsberg & Baro Vicenta Ra Gabbert. Moderated by Katharina Kropshofer.
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Lecture performance with Mariam Rezaei
SAT, 7 March 2026 | 14:00 | Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer working across experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club music and hip-hop.
Free entry!
Vibe Shift, Really? Broligarchy, Tech Power, and Authoritarian Fantasies
Friday, 6 March 2026 / Heimatsaal, Graz
13:00 - Free entry!
With Christian Schiffer, Wolfgang Palaver and Anna-Verena Nosthoff. Moderated by Sarah Kriesche (Γ1).
Livestream available on elevate.at and Youtube!
1 WEEK TO GO.
Elevate Festival is about to take over Graz.
Secure your tickets while Phase 2 is still available.
Phase 1 β Early Bird (SOLD OUT)
Phase 2 β Regular Price (until 28 February 2026)
Phase 3 β Highest Price (from 1 March 2026)
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
DΓ LIVER (SI/SE)
Sat, 7 March 2026 | Orpheum Extra, Graz
Bass, drums and gestural vocals collide in a poetic performance.
Benedikt Alphart (AT)
Fri, 6 March 2026 | Orpheum Extra, Graz
Sound works from hidden, remote and underwater worlds.
Part of Re-Imagine Europe.
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
Everybody Shaking: Resistant Vitality, Loving Ways of Relating to the World
THU, 5 March 2026 / Heimatsaal, Graz
14:30
Free entry!
Simon(e) van Saarloos, Andrea SchΓΆne and Jol Thoms discuss body politics, critical care, ageism, (eco-)ableism, & more-than-human relations. Moderated by Irina Nalis.
OJOO (MA/BE)
SAT, 7 March 2026 | ppc, Graz
ojoo is a Morocco-born, Brussels-based producer and DJ moving between experimental club, hybrid bass and atmospheric electronica.
Unusual rhythms, playful sound fragments and a sharp sense for detail shape her dynamic sets.
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
"Vital Signs" #ElevateArts
Exhibition in Public Space
"Vital Signs" is a group exhibition in the urban space of Graz that presents a total of eleven positions of contemporary artistic practice to the public β on culture boards, in vacant spaces, on faΓ§ades, and on streetlight poles.
PLF Elevate 5 - 8 March 2026 Graz / Austria
PLF (AT) The trio of Lukas KΓΆnig, Peter Kutin and Elvin Brandhi combine experimental electronics, extended percussion and raw vocals into an intense, genre-defying sound. Their music draws on DIY light-feedback systems, analogue and digital circuits, and electronically enhanced percussion, with Brandhiβs vocals adding a visceral, primal edge. The AV show was created in close collaboration with software engineer and video artist Patrik Lechner and will take place on Thursday, 5 March at Helmut List Halle.
PLF (AT)
THU, 5 March 2026 | @helmutlisthalle
The trio of Lukas KΓΆnig, Peter Kutin and Elvin Brandhi combine experimental electronics, extended percussion and raw vocals into an intense, genre-defying sound.
Artwork: @ko_ko_konski β¨
Photo: PLF
Radio Amnion: Oceanic Listening as Transcendental (T)ec(n)ology
Workshop & listening session with Jol Thoms and Denise Helene Sumi
Thursday, 5 March 2026 | 10:00 | Heimatsaal, Graz
Registration: elevate.at/en/workshops/
Free entry!
Elevate Saturday/Sunday β Local Spotlight
On 7 and 8 March, local artists turn up the pace and showcase the depth of Austriaβs vibrant local scene.
Discover them all: elevate.at/en/lineup/
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
Elevate Thursday/Friday β Local Spotlight
Between experimentation and high-energy sets, the local scene will turn Elevate into a high-energy showcase of Austriaβs local scene.
Discover them all: elevate.at/en/lineup/
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
Elevate Discourse Programme 2026
"Vital Signs"
5 - 7 March 2026 | Heimatsaal Graz
Free entry to the entire discourse programme!
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For the first time, our opening ceremony takes place at Helmut List Halle, with free entry to the talks by special guests including bestselling author Εeyda Kurt and "Science Buster" Martin Moder.
Opening ceremony
Thursday, 05 March 2026
19:30 Helmut List Halle
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At 10am, join the workshop and listening session "Radio Omnion β Oceanic Listening as Transcendental (t)Ec(n)ology" at Heimatsaal.
Register here: elevate.at/en/workshops/
Explore the full discourse programme: elevate.at/en/discourse...
2 weeks to go β Elevators, are you ready?
On Thursday, 5 March, we kick off with the discourse programme at Heimatsaal, exploring oceanic listening, body politics, care, more-than-human relations, and a wake-up call for democracy.
Pinch (UK)
Sat, 7 March 2026 | p.p.c., Graz
A defining architect of British dubstep and the Bristol bass scene, founder of Tectonic & Earwax, and a key figure in global bass music.
Expect powerful sub-bass, minimalist drums and deep, dub-infused sound system pressure.
Tickets: elevate.at/tickets
Workshop: Feeling our way forward 07.03.2026 / 10:00 / Heimatsaal, Graz Elevate Festival Free entry!
Feeling Our Way Forward Workshop by Mary Maggic Feeling Our Way Forward is a blind-creation workshop that invites participants to use the body as a source of sensory knowledge, exploring how we might survive together in uncertain worlds. Working in darkness to create a collective sculpture, the group explores uncertainty, vulnerability and interdependence, challenging vision-centred knowledge and instead elevate embodied and relational ways of world-making.
Feeling our way forward - Workshop by Mary Maggic
Saturday, 7 March 2026 |Β 10:00 |Β Heimatsaal, Graz
Registration: elevate.at/en/workshops/
Free entry!
Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta
Fri, 6 March 2026 | Dom im Berg, Graz
A transdisciplinary permormance by Kelman Duran, AGF, KianΓ del Valle, Theresa Baumgartner and Lukas KΓΆnig as part of the EU project TIMES
A multisensory piece weaving punk poetry, free jazz, dance and light.
Tickets: elevate.at/tickets
Propaganda, Lecture Performance, 7.03.2026, 18:30, Heimatsaal Elevate Discourse
Propaganda Lecture Performance SAT, 7 March 2026 | Heimatsaal, Graz How is truth created? And who decides what we believe? In Austriaβs first investigative lecture performance, journalism meets theater, and research meets the stage. The performance explores how we handle facts, the power of fake news and partisan media, and how propaganda can be identified and understood. With Florian Skrabal (DOSSIER), Samira Kossebau and Florian Troebinger.
Propaganda
Lecture Performance
SAT, 7 March 2026 | 18:30 | Heimatsaal, Graz
With Florian Skrabal (DOSSIER), Samira Kossebau and Florian Troebinger.
Free entry!
Pavel Milyakov (DE)
FRI, 6 March 2026 | PPC, Graz
Berlin-based musician, producer & DJ Pavel Milyakov β aka Buttechno β moves fluidly between techno, house, industrial, ambient and experimental club music. Live, he dives into transcendental drone and dark ambient.
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
Maria Somerville (IE)
SUN, 8 March 2026 | Orpheum, Graz
The Irish musician, producer, and NTS radio host is crafting introspective dream pop that blends analog warmth, ghostly vocals, and shimmering synth landscapes between experimental folk, shoegaze and ambient.
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
"Graz, Austria's second city, provides a strikingly Baroque backdrop for Elevate, a multidisciplinary festival pushing forward-thinking strains of music, arts and politics."
RA Pick: Mesmerising jazz reveries courtesy of experimental saxophonist Benedik Giske.
de.ra.co/features/4484
Elevate Festival 5 - 8 March 2026 Graz /. Austria bela
bela is known for confrontational performances and cathartic sound design. Originally from Paju in South Korea, bela expands on the Korean folk music genre pungmul, transforming it through guttural vocals and sub-bass-heavy metal noise into a queer ritual in which trauma is addressed and anger and grief are channeled.
bela (KR)
FRI, 6 March 2026 | Orpheum Extra
Confrontational performance meets cathartic sound design. From Paju, South Korea, bela transforms pungmul into a queer ritual of guttural vocals, sub-bass metal noise, and collective release of anger and grief.
Tickets: elevate.at/en/tickets/
