Over 200,000 people attended the EXIT Festival on July 7-10. Fantastic concerts, amazing DJ sets, and extraordinary intensity from both the audience and headliners, such as Nick Cave and Calvin Harris, lifted the level of the Petrovaradin Fortress festival experience. EXIT has improved production and genre diversity, as seen on the festival’s biggest stages and zones. Iggy Azalea, Sepultura, Boris Brejcha, and ARTBAT left amazing impressions on fans, and EXIT had a Serbian headliner for the first time, Ana uri Konstrakta, delivering one of the festival’s most outstanding editions.
EXIT 2022 began with two separate opening ceremonies. The opening ceremony on the Pachamama stage featured the symbolic release of 22 doves and the presentation of the “Yellow Submarine” art work on the Danube, sending messages of peace from the Petrovaradin Fortress. Traditional midnight fireworks on the festival’s Main Stage showed the other side.
During the four festival nights, more than 200,000 members of the EXIT tribe walked and danced their way through the Petrovaradin Fortress, along with more than 1,000 artists who performed on over 40 festival stages and zones. The energy-packed Main Stage showed incredible variety, from the most intense emotions, an ode to love and tragedy brought by the one and only Nick Cave with his The Bad Seeds, to a spectacle delivered by today’s most sought-after producer and DJ Calvin Harris, fiery hip-hop diva Iggy Azalea, hitmakers Afrojack, Jax Jones, Alok, Joel Corry and the fiercest guitar sound of the Brazilian sensation Sepultura, the Finnish Blind Channel and the alternative Belarusian band Molchat Doma. All these big names were packed into four festival nights in just one place – the Main Stage – while on its fourth night, EXIT Festival delivered another historic moment – Ana Đurić Konstrakta became the first Serbian Main Stage headliner in the festival’s history. “It was cosmic fate that we would become the first local Main Stage headliner ever because we’re ‘noble’,” Konstrakta said to thousands of fans.
The temple of the highest-quality electronic music, mts Dance Arena, gathered today’s greats, such as Boris Brejcha, Stephan Bodzin, Adam Beyer, ARTBAT, Honey Dijon, Maceo Plex, Blond:Ish, Anfisa Letyago, Reinier Zonneveld, Monolink, Satori, Denis Sulta, Mathame, and they all shared energy and beats with the traditionally massive audience on this stage until the early morning hours. The Visa Fusion Stage brought, as its name suggests, a fusion of genres, generations, and performers from the country, region, and the world, including the bands Paraf, Joker Out, Brkovi, Artan Lili and Orthodox Celts but also the likes of Marky Ramone and Noisia.
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