Key Points Highlighting Urban Art Festival Styria
The Urban Art Festival Styria, now known as La Strada Graz, is set to return from July 25 to August 2, 2025, transforming Graz and its surrounding areas into a bustling artistic hub. This immersive festival will feature street art, puppet theatre, new circus, and community art, with a cross-disciplinary approach that embraces diverse contemporary artistic expressions.
Key locations for the festival include public urban spaces throughout Graz and the Kunsthaus Graz, which will host the Immersive Lab centrepiece in 2025. The festival's themes revolve around engaging with the city’s inhabitants and places, exploring major contemporary topics through poetic, tender, hopeful, and explicit artistic contributions. The event emphasizes art’s connection to place and the everyday life of the community.
The festival team for 2025 includes individuals from various countries and cultural backgrounds, led by Christa Lorenz, who originally brought the festival to STUWO StudentCity. Lina Paimina, Christina Ulrich, and Norbert Lipp are also part of the organizing team. International networking is a key focus, with organizations from eight different countries participating, such as Future Icons from Austria and Proyecto Kieu from Spain.
In Fladnitz, participants will live in self-catering huts surrounded by nature, providing a source of inspiration. The student residence, which provided the perfect stage for the festival due to its young audience, open atmosphere, creative minds, and people from all over the world, features numerous murals, graffiti, and installations by various artists from around the world. Christa Lorenz, the residence manager, played a significant role in transforming the dormitory into an art space.
Examples of artists who have contributed to the festival in the past include Daan Botlek, David Leitner, and Jakoba Niepoort. The festival's website provides information for booking accommodation and other services.
The festival will feature workshops, concerts, and art events. On July 31st, August 1st, and 2nd, three concert evenings will take place at the Citypeach venue in Graz. The festival aims to make art accessible to everyone and to highlight current trends in the scene.
The festival became a space for encounter and participation every year, with in-house workshops and events inviting everyone to participate. Even after the festival, the STUWO Student City still radiates creative energy.
For updates and impressions of the festival, follow its Instagram account. La Strada Graz 2025 is an immersive urban art festival spread across Graz’s public and cultural venues, featuring multidisciplinary performances and installations that explore contemporary societal themes with an emphasis on community engagement and innovative artistic expression.
- Visitors can look forward to experiencing the festival's impact on Graz's home-and-garden environment, as numerous murals, graffiti, and installations decorate the self-catering huts in Fladnitz and the student residence, transforming these locations into vibrant hubs of urban art.
- Aside from the street art and community engagement at La Strada Graz 2025, the festival offers a diverse lifestyle experience, with workshops, concerts, and art events, promoting accessibility to art and highlighting current trends in the scene.
