GIF25

August 25th - 31st / Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz

GIF25

August 25th - 31st / Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz

Grazer Improfest 2025

Our Vision

At GrazerImproFest, we create a space for creative development and spontaneous collaboration. Our aim is to promote personal experiences and inspire people through improvisation. Together we work across disciplines and break new ground in the arts.

Festival Lineup – Who performs when and where?

The complete line-up for GrazerImproFest 25 will be available here soon. Find out about the artists, their performance times and the stage locations so that you don’t miss any highlights. Our table is designed so that you can find all the information quickly and plan your visit optimally.

GIF25 ARTISTS +++

OBERDECK #22: Mirjam Schrei (AT)

Moments. An undefined unit of time – fleeting and yet sometimes eternal.
In her series of paintings entitled “Atmosphere of the Moment”, Mirjam Schrei explores the connection between photography and painting and examines the process of remembering. The works
are based on photographs from her archive and capture the fleeting character of personal experiences.

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Alica Minar (CZE) + Tim Winter (DE)

If we openly share our desires, what will happen? And what will happen if we start to fulfill them, on stage, in the audience? How would their confession change the very moment and the social setting we’re part of NOW, among friends, strangers, comrades?

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Grazer Improfest a 25.8.2025-31.8.2025

Julia & Michael Walk (AT) + Gabriel Huth (AT)

This dinner performance explores the tension between rules and improvisation in the cooking process and invites guests to become active participants in the creative transformation of ingredients and recipes. The structure of the evening is not determined in advance , but develops in real time through the dynamics between the chefs, guests, space and ingredients.

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B the Beat (AT)

Dance battle with impro flow!
dancers will perform to live improvised music. The focus is on the exchange with the musicians as well as the possibility of a “connection” with each other.
The “audience” and all the people in the room ultimately become active performers and are invited to get involved in this musical journey and create new movements!

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Corinna Eikmeier (DE)

What are the interactions between the quality of movement in music-making and the quality of improvisation? Aspects relevant to improvisation from two research projects will be presented.

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The Kumberg Gatherers

The core is expressing itself at the moment without structures or concepts. In terms of content, this evening is open and can develop in any direction, depending on which influences are currently present and determine the path…

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Maria Gstättner (AT) + Stefan Heckel (AT)

In this lecture performance, Maria Gstättner talks about her experience of how sound becomes a medium in free improvisation – a fleeting mediator between body and space, an impulse for transformation. It is about those moments in which the inexplicable takes shape and condenses into sound, breath and silence.

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Grazer Improfest a 25.8.2025-31.8.2025

Julia & Michael Walk (AT) + Gabriel Huth (AT)

This dinner performance explores the tension between rules and improvisation in the cooking process and invites guests to become active participants in the creative transformation of ingredients and recipes. The structure of the evening is not determined in advance , but develops in real time through the dynamics between the chefs, guests, space and ingredients.

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This is the end

Final improv session with surprises –
Reflection, conclusion & sound leftovers
Come as you are, bring what’s left. YOU DO YOU!

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Annemarie Adam

Nick Acorne

Yuval Avital

Tolga Balcı

Moritz Barnard

Michele Bernabei

B THE BEAT BATTLE

Claudia Cervenca

George Cremaschi

CMKK

Conte Potuto

René Corvaia-Koch

Corinna Eikmeier

Dena Derose

Madeleine Dietrichstein

Tin Dzaferovic

Anna Sophia Defant

Denovaire

Die Flößerei

Petra Fraißl

Joana Fürnschuß aka Joflow

Annette Giesriegl

GIK – Grazer Impro Klub

Elisabeth Harnik

Andreas Haas

Gerhard Hammerl

Stefan Heckel

Yvonne Hofmeister

Harald Hofmeister

Peter Hutter

Gabriel Huth

Lilly Jagl

Jugend am Werk – Malwerkstatt

Katharina Klement

Thomas Klanner

Josef Klammer

Susa Kern

KUG – Kunstuni Graz

Kumberg Gathering

Dominik Kreuzer

Hana Kuncic

Michael Laab

Alvaro Vallejo Larre

Robert Lepenik

Margarete Maierhofer Lischka

Michael Masen

Jean Christophe Mastnak

Anna Grenzner Matheu

Meet 4 Musik

Mahtab Miandehi

Alica Minar

mozo mozo

Michael Walk

Julia Walk

Maria Gstättner

Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik

Ana Ostoicic

Keyvan Paydar

Armin Pokorn

Felix Linhart aka potzblitz!brak

Alona Pynzenyk

Franz Schmuck

Mirjam Schrei

STIO – Styrian Improvisers Orchestra

Sabine Thaller

Rixxard Tattoo

Kerstin Türtscher

Lukas Wöber

Stephanie Wöhrer aka Olga

Georg Wissa

Tim Winter

Patrick Wurzwallner

Christoph Wundrak

Seppo Gründler

Mia Zabelka

Mina Zakić

Zlata

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Annemarie Adam

Nick Acorne

Yuval Avital

Tolga Balcı

Moritz Barnard

Michele Bernabei

B THE BEAT BATTLE

Claudia Cervenca

George Cremaschi

CMKK

Conte Potuto

René Corvaia-Koch

Corinna Eikmeier

Dena Derose

Madeleine Dietrichstein

Tin Dzaferovic

Anna Sophia Defant

Denovaire

Die Flößerei

Petra Fraißl

Joana Fürnschuß aka Joflow

Annette Giesriegl

GIK – Grazer Impro Klub

Elisabeth Harnik

Andreas Haas

Gerhard Hammerl

Stefan Heckel

Yvonne Hofmeister

Harald Hofmeister

Peter Hutter

Gabriel Huth

Lilly Jagl

Jugend am Werk – Malwerkstatt

Katharina Klement

Thomas Klanner

Josef Klammer

Susa Kern

KUG – Kunstuni Graz

Kumberg Gathering

Dominik Kreuzer

Hana Kuncic

Michael Laab

Alvaro Vallejo Larre

Robert Lepenik

Margarete Maierhofer Lischka

Michael Masen

Jean Christophe Mastnak

Anna Grenzner Matheu

Meet 4 Musik

Mahtab Miandehi

Alica Minar

mozo mozo

Michael Walk

Julia Walk

Maria Gstättner

Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik

Ana Ostoicic

Keyvan Paydar

Armin Pokorn

Felix Linhart aka potzblitz!brak

Alona Pynzenyk

Franz Schmuck

Mirjam Schrei

STIO – Styrian Improvisers Orchestra

Sabine Thaller

Rixxard Tattoo

Kerstin Türtscher

Lukas Wöber

Stephanie Wöhrer aka Olga

Georg Wissa

Tim Winter

Patrick Wurzwallner

Christoph Wundrak

Seppo Gründler

Mia Zabelka

Mina Zakić

Zlata

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