
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 (2020), artist in residency at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2017, she is also the subject of the multiple award-winning documentary Born Just Now (2018), 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. Jovanović is currently a professor at the Rome University of Fine Arts and is also teaching at the European Cultural Center Performance Art in Amsterdam.
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Exhibitions
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2019
Mermaid’s Tale, Virtual Reality Experience by Marta Jovanović
Eugster II Belgrade gallery, Belgrade, Serbia2018
BelgradeMermaid
Belgrade Biennial/57th October Salon, Serbia2017
Until Death – Experimental Action
International Performance Art Festival, Houston, TexasFaith
Rothko Chapel, Houston,Texas, USA2016
The Beauty of Tight Binding
Extravagant Criminal International Art Festival, Belgrade, SerbiaDvanaest (Twelve)
Primary School Josif Pancic, Gradac, SerbiaLjubav (Love)
Swiss Residency, Belgrade, SerbiaPillow Talk
THE ROOM Radisson Blu Old Mill Hotel, Belgrade, Serbia and Bosi Contemporary, New York, USAMotherhood
Galerija O3one, Belgrade, Serbia2014
Secret
Art Residence Aley, Beirut, LebanonClairvoyant
Helac Fine Art, New YorkUntitled (after Cut Piece by Yoko Ono)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia2013
Operation Nightingale
La Mama Theatre, New York2012
Requiem
Location One, New York2011
Principe di Montenevoso
Biennial Quadrilateral, Rijeka, Croatia25. Maj
Museum Of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, SerbiaShoot Me!
Bosi Artes Gallery, Rome, Italy; O3one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia; Largo Baracche, Naples, Italy; Serbian Embassy,Washington DC; and Studio Marina Abramovic, Location One, New YorkSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Motherhood
Centre culturel de Serbie, Paris, France and Eugster II, Belgrade, Serbia2014
Republika
Bosi Contemporary, New York, New York2013
It Is My Body
Galerija 12 HUB, Belgrade, Serbia and Location One, New York, New York2012
Selysette
Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy and Centre Culturel de Serbie, Paris, France25. Maj
Museo della Civilta Romana, Rome, Italy2011
Fuck Art Let’s Dance
Bosi Damjanovic Gallery, New York2010
MariaMagdalena
Piazza della Repubblica, Orvieto, Italy2009
Dance Rehearsal Project
Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome ItalyPortrait Gallery
Electronic Art Café, Rome, Italy2007
No Wonderland
O3one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia2006
1059
O3one Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS2020
Reflections of Our Time: Acquisitions 1993-2019
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia2019
Schaulager
Eugster II, Belgrade, Serbia2014
Please Kill The Mainstream
Galerija Zecevic, Belgrade, SerbiaSegrete
Castel dell’’Ovo, Naples, Italy2013
Bronx Calling
Bronx Museum Biennial, New York, New York2012
Honoring Ai WeiWei
White Box, New York, New YorkSenza Titolo
Spazio 88, Rome, ItalyLights and Shadows
Bosi Artes, Rome, ItalyFabula in Arte
Church San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome, Italy2011
Out of the left field
Biennial Quadrilateral, Rijeka, CroatiaDivina Commedia
Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples, ItalyWomen&Co
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Education
2012
Hemispheric Art Institute
Other: Performance art and Politics, NYU, New York, New YorkBronx Museum, New York
AIM (Artist in the Marketplace)2001
Tulane University
BA, New Orleans, Louisiana2000
Scuola Lorenzo de Medici
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Awards
2020
Elle Style Awards, Belgrade, Serbia2019
Trajectory and Artistic Production, Arte Non Stop Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina2012
Roma Capitale, award for distinguished artistic contribution in Italy