Marta Jovanović is a performance artist and educator with a mission to promote and facilitate further progress of the discipline. Founder of the Performance Art Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, artist in residency at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2017, Jovanović is also the subject of the multiple award-winning documentary “Born Just Now”, by the American director Robert Adanto. Her works, among which the most notable ones are “Pionirka”, “It is My Body”, “Love”, and “Motherhood”, are in important private and museum collections. The performance “BelgradeMermaid” opened the Belgrade Biennale in 2018, while its continuation “Mermaid’s Tale” became a performance in Virtual Reality the following year. Curator Kathy Battista wrote a survey of the artist’s early works titled “Marta Jovanovic: Performing the Self”, which was published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of City University of New York, while in the book New York New Wave, Battista positions Jovanović among the most urgent New York City contemporary feminist artists.
Marta Jovanović is a performance artist and educator with a mission to promote and facilitate further progress of the discipline. Founder of the Performance Art Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, artist in residency at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2017, Jovanović is also the subject of the multiple award-winning documentary “Born Just Now”, by the American director Robert Adanto. Her works, among which the most notable ones are “Pionirka”, “It is My Body”, “Love”, and “Motherhood”, are in important private and museum collections. The performance “BelgradeMermaid” opened the Belgrade Biennale in 2018, while its continuation “Mermaid’s Tale” became a performance in Virtual Reality the following year. Curator Kathy Battista wrote a survey of the artist’s early works titled “Marta Jovanovic: Performing the Self”, which was published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of City University of New York, while in the book New York New Wave, Battista positions Jovanović among the most urgent New York City contemporary feminist artists.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
| 2019 | Mermaid in VR, video by Branko Šujić, Production Galerija 12 HUB / Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia |
| 2018 | BelgradeMermaid – The Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2017 | Until Death – Experimental Action, International Performance Art Festival, Houston, Texas, USA |
| 2016 | The Beauty of Tight Binding – Extravagant Criminal International Art Festival, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2015 | Pillow Talk, Bosi Contemporary, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Secret – Art Residence Aley, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2013 | Operation Nightingale, La Mama Theatre, New York, USA |
| 2012 | Requiem, Location One, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Principe di Montenevoso, Biennial Quadrilateral, Rijeka, Croatia |
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
| 2018 | It’s OK, You Can Go, Navigator Gallery Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2017 | Motherhood, Eugster || Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2014 | Republika, Bosi Contemporary, New York, USA |
| 2013 | It Is My Body, G12HUB, Belgrade, Serbia and Location One, New York, USA (2012 – 2013) |
| 2012 | Sèlysette, Centre Culturel de Serbie, Paris, France and Bosi Artes, Rome, Italy |
| 2011 | MariaMagdalena, Piazza della Repubblica, Orvieto, Italy Retroprospettiva – Orvieto Arte, Orvieto, Italy |
| 2010 | Serbian Embassy, Washington DC, USA |
| 2009 | USULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2007 | Portrait Gallery, Electronic Art Café, Rome, Italy |
| 2006 | No Wonderland, O3one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia |
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
| 2019 | Schaulager #2, Eusgter II Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2018 | Schaulager #1, Eusgter II Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2014 | Please Kill The Mainstream, Galerija Zecevic, Belgrade, |
| 2013 | Bronx Calling, Bronx Museum Biennial, New York, USA |
| 2012 | Honoring Ai Weiwei, White Box, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Out of the left feld, Biennial Quadrilateral – Rijeka, Croatia |
| 2010 | FabbricArt, Factory, Rome, Italy |
Works
Belgrade Mermaid
2018
Dimension variable
Duration:
3’52” on loop,
Edition:
9
Photo credits:
©
Marko Kazić Eugster || Belgrade
Belgrade Mermaid (costume)
2018
Materials:
Neopren
Edition:
Unique
Photo credits:
©
Marko Kazić Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood, sculpture 083
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood, sculpture 100
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood, sculpture 163
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood, sculpture 264
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood, sculpture 197
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood
exhibition view
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Motherhood
exhibition view
2017
Dimensions:
each 45 x 55 mm
each sculpture is unique, has an engraved number counting from 001 to 267 up to date. This is ongoing work.
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
LJUBAV/LOVE
2016
Dimensions:
50x70cm
Materials:
C-Print in frame
Edition:
Edition 6 + 2AP
Photo credits:
©
Viktor Sekularac
Eugster || Belgrade
THE BEAUTY OF TIGHT BINDING
2016
Dimensions:
30x40cm
Materials:
C-Print in frame
Edition:
6 + 2AP
Photo credits:
©
Danilo Mataruga Eugster || Belgrade
TWELVE
2016
Dimensions:
50x70cm
Materials:
C-Print in frame
Edition:
6 + 2AP
Photo credits:
©
Marija Konjikusić
Eugster || Belgrade
It is My Body: Hand
2015
Dimensions:
life size, 2 times about 20 x 25 x 18 cm
Materials:
life cast, electroformed copper, plated nickel and gold
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Jan Eugster LLC
NO JUSTIFICATION NECESSARY
2014
Dimensions:
50 x 70 cm
Materials:
C-Print in frame
Edition:
6 + 2AP
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
NO JUSTIFICATION NECESSARY
2014
Dimensions:
50 x 70 cm
Materials:
C-Print in frame
Edition:
6 + 2AP
Photo credits:
©
Jan Eugster Eugster || Belgrade
Pionirka
2011
Dimensions:
4 x 60 x 163 cm
Materials:
Photograph
Photo credits:
©
Petar Vujanic Eugster || Belgrade
25 May
2011
Dimensions:
125 x 110 cm
Materials:
C Print on aluminum
Photo credits:
©
Marta Jovanović
Eugster || Belgrade
25 May
2011
Dimensions:
125 x 110 cm
Materials:
C Print on aluminum
Photo credits:
©
Marta Jovanović
Eugster || Belgrade
Fuck Art Let's Dance
2010
Dimensions:
20 x 115 cm
Materials:
Neon, cable, transformer
Edition:
9
Photo credits:
©
Marta Jovanović
Eugster || Belgrade