° 1982

Lives in Berlin (Germany), born in Belgrade (Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of), lives in Belgrade (Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of).

Marta Popivoda was born in 1982 in Belgrade (Yugoslavia). She is a film and video maker and a cultural worker based in Berlin and Belgrade. She holds an MA in Film and TV Directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In 2011 she enrolled in the Art and Media Department at the Berlin University of the Arts to study in the postgraduate program in experimental film with prof. Heinz Emigholz. For her studies in Germany, she received a DAAD scholarship.

Her artistic and cultural work is characterized by two main concerns, one dealing with the discursive makeup and power structure of the contemporary Artworld and its social situatedness, and the other with the Yugoslav cultural and political space, in both historical and current terms. These two concerns are connected by a reference to the socialist idea of the artist as a social engineer whose work is contextually based and aims to intervene in social reality from the position of art and culture.

She has been a member of the editorial collective TkH [Walking Theory], a theoretical-artistic platform from Belgrade within which she initiated and participated in many local and international artistic and cultural projects. Her artistic work has been presented internationally at film festivals and exhibitions of photography, installation art, and video. She also collaborates in theater performances and contemporary opera as a video artist.