Novi Sad will once again celebrate its authentic interculturality through Doček, the best European Trend Brand in the field of culture in 2021 and nominee for the best European festival in 2022, which will be organized in Serbian Athens for the sixth time.

For the second year in a row, Doček has been moved from the main city square to the Suburbium of the Petrovaradin Fortress, where on 31 December, through the collaboration of musicians and visual artists, that baroque jewel will be transformed into a completely new ambiance. The music programme will be held on three stages in the Suburbium, while the visual programme will take place at the Fortress itself, as well as in Studio M.

Novi Sad is the only city that will enter the new year with as many as three extraordinary exhibitions inspired by great Serbian world-class scientists – Mileva Marić Einstein, Milutin Milanković and Nikola Tesla. New practices developed in the field of new media arts, as part of the ‘Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture’ project, made it possible for Doček in Novi Sad, on 31 December, to be a special treat due to a different visual experience. In three locations, the brilliant minds of science and their creativity will once again shine through art.

Admission is free to all music performances, exhibitions and other visual programmes in the Suburbium, Petrovaradin Fortress and Studio M.

SCHEDULE / 31 December

9 p.m.
Perpetuum Jazzile / Main stage, near the Belgrade Gate

10 p.m.
Stereo MC’s / Big stage, Prote Mihaldžića Square
Monohrom / Small stage, Štrosmajerova Street

11 p.m.
Kosheen / Main stage, near the Belgrade Gate
Repetitor / Small stage, Štrosmajerova Street

11.30 p.m.
Mimi Mercedez / Big stage, Prote Mihaldžića Square

12.30 a.m.
Biesmans / Main stage, near the Belgrade Gate
Obojeni Program / Small stage, Štrosmajerova Street

01.30 a.m.
Rođeni / Big stage, Prote Mihaldžića Square

Visual Programme / 31 December

‘Mileva: We Are One Rock’ in the City Museum of Novi Sad, by Dušan Jovović, PhD / application for professional guidance

‘Milutin: Time and Universe’ in Studio M, by Dušan Jovović, PhD / application for professional guidance

Tesla Light Gallery in the Suburbium and at the Petrovaradin Fortress: Chida Yasuhiro from Japan, one of Artdex’s ‘9 Brilliant Light Artists’, Pavla Beranová from the Czech Republic, a winner of awards for interactive installations and best light design, Dorijan Kolundžija, who runs the ‘Gallery 12’ new media studio, and whose one of the projects is the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Goran Despotovski, a representative of the Association of Fine Artists of Vojvodina (SULUV), artists Dejan Stojkov and Anđelko Popić and others

The exclusive sponsor of the exhibition ‘Mileva: We Are One Rock’ is Erste Bank.

Merging of visual art and music, as universal languages that we all understand, singles out Doček, as well as Novi Sad as the city that will provide a unique audio-visual experience to the citizens of Novi Sad and guests on 31 December as wll as on 13 January.