The Elevate Festival is an annual 5-day interdisciplinary festival in Graz focusing on cultural, political, and society issues. Its unique program of concerts, performances, lectures, and other events connects political discourse with art, avant-garde electronic music, and audiovisual experiment; the festival will take place this year from March 5-9, 2025.
Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various venues in Graz, Austria, with a strong focus on cultural and socio-political topics.
In addition to performances, concerts, installations and DJ sets, the interdisciplinary program offers workshops, film screenings, lectures and discussions.
With its unique combination of critical-political discourse and art, contemporary electronic music and audio-visual experiments, the festival opens up a space for innovative content. Since 2016 Elevate is a partner in two Creative Europe projects: TIMES & Re-Imagine Europe.
Amonst the guests are Human rights experts, climate researchers and activists from all over the world, who gather in Graz once a year with musicians and artists, illuminating pertinent issues of our future.
An extensive media archive section is available too. Lots of political discourse, interviews and music videos from the previous years can be found online.
A special feature of Elevate 2025 is its rave night – 1 NIGHT, 3 STAGES, 18 ACTS – March 8th: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz
Austrian Artists at Elevate
C.O.R.N.!, Ciao Ciao, EARES, Lucia Kagramanyan, Martin Ritter, MOPCUT ft. MC Dälek, NOR, Peter Stiegler, PHARMA, Navaridas & Deutinger, PHLOXX, POLDI, Roedelius, Saugbagger, Sophie Royer, Sun People, Vincent Pongracz, Voyage Futur
Austrian Music Export x Elevate networking brunch
The Elevate Festival and Austrian Music Export are pleased to invite you to a press and partner reception on Friday, March 7 at 11 a.m. in the Van den Berg Gewürzhaus in Graz. This informal brunch will bring international festival partners and sponsors, members of the press, festival artists, and representatives of the Elevate Festival and Austrian Music Export together to network and exchange ideas. Interested? Simply send an email to rsvp@elevate.at. See you there!