Marta Jovanović is a performance artist and university lecturer with a mission to promote and facilitate the further advancement of the discipline. Founder of the Performance Art Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2017, Jovanović is the protagonist of the documentary film “Born Just Now”, directed by American filmmaker Robert Adanto, winner of numerous international awards.
Her works, “Pionirka,” “It is My Body,” “Love,” and “Motherhood”, are held in important private and museum collections. The performance “BelgradeMermaid” opened the Belgrade Biennale in 2018, while the following year its continuation, “Mermaid’s Tale,” became a virtual reality performance. Curator Kathy Battista wrote a compendium on her early works titled “Marta Jovanovic: Performing the Self,” published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the City University of New York, while in the book New York New Wave, Battista positions Jovanović among the most urgent contemporary feminist artists in New York.