Marta Jovanović

Jovanović utilizes her performances to reflect on deeply personal issues, but often combines them with political, historical, and cultural themes. 

Marta Jovanović graduated from the Tulane University in New Orleans and Instituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence. As part of her additional education, she completed a programme for political performance at the Hemisferik Art Institute of the New York University (NYU) and AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) Programme at the Bronx Museum in New York. In addition to numerous solo exhibitions and performances in the country and abroad, she has participated in international biennials and group exhibitions, and her works are part of the world’s most important private collections. She is a winner of the Roma Capitale Award for her artistic achievement in Italy in 2012. She participated in the 55^th Venice Biennale in a series of discussions on performance art, under the title Venice Agendas, together with other respected artists and curators in the field of performance, such as Joan Jonas and Hans Urlich Obrist.  She is the founder of the annual educational programme for the art of performance – Performance HUB – in Belgrade, in cooperation with the 12 HUB Gallery.  In 2017, she was a guest lecturer and researcher at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles. Selected performances are Motherhood, Belgrade (2016), Pillow Talk, New York (2015), Vow of Silence, Beirut (2014), Requiem, New York (2012), Principe di Montenevoso, Rijeka (2011).