EXIT

EXIT is a highly renowned summer music festival that takes place in Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia, the southern part of the beautiful Danube River. It features over 1000 performers on more than 40 stages and festival zones, placing it at the top of the list of European events in music festivals.

It already got the "Best Major European Festival" prizes in the EU Festival 2013 and 2017; it is also one of the most recognizable Awards in this circuit. Used to be - shone- it recieved the "Best Overseas Festival" in 2007 and was in the top-tier category of the "Best Music Festivals in Summer in Europe" in 2016, the travel website portal known "European Best Destinations,"&

EXIT was first established in the year of 2000 as a student movement on the University Park, where students were calling for democracy and freedom in Serbia and the Balkans. After the 2000 Yugoslavian general election, the festival was moved to Petrovaradin Fortress in 2001 and since then it has been held there up to now.

Throughout its history, EXIT has won international acclaim and been given prominent coverage in multiple leading newspapers such as CNN, The Guardian, The Sun, Euronews, The New York Times, BBC, Forbes, The Times, and on TV stations MTV, Huffington Post, Conde Nast Traveller, Daily Mail, The Independent, and Lonely Planet, to name a few others.

The EXIT team is not only in charge of these events but they are also organizing seven more events in five cities of four Southeast European countries including Sea Dance Festival in Budva, Montenegro and Sea Star Festival in Umag, Croatia. One of them, No Sleep Festival in Belgrade, won the "Best New Festivals" EU Festival Awards in 2019. At the same time, the Sea Dance Festival achieved the "Best Mid-Sized European Festival" in 2015.

Based on the principles of youth rebellion and with a proclaimed aim of freedom support in Serbia and peace in the Balkans, the festival's mission statement has never failed to underscore the part played by music in social change. Moreover, the festival is constantly showing social responsibility in the related areas of climate change and humanitarian problems, creative industries growth, and regional cooperation.

In those 20 years of its existence, EXIT had hosted an unbeatable amount of world famous stars, among which are: Pet Shop Boys, Billy Idol, The Cure, The Killers, Guns N' Roses, Franz Ferdinand, Motörhead, Iggy Pop, David Guetta, Massive Attack, Liam Gallagher, Grace Jones, Fatboy Slim, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, The Prodigy, Migos, Sex Pistols, Kraftwerk, Korn, Moby, Arctic Monkeys, Chemical Brothers, Faith No More, LCD Soundsystem, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Pulp, Jamiroquai, M.I.A., Slayer, Ellie Goulding, Hardwell, Carl Cox, Avicii, Nina Kraviz, DJ Snake, Charlotte de Witte, Paul Kalkbrenner, Amelie Lens, Solomun, Artbat, Maceo Plex, Boris Brejcha and many others.