Gera Urkom was born in Skorenovac in 1940. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1969. He lives in London. Gera Urkom is a member of Belgrade informal group of authors (Marina Abramović, Era Milivojević, Neša Paripović, Zoran Popović and Raša Todosijević) who, in the environment of dominant moderate modernism, radicalized and expanded the understanding of a work of art, emphasizing the performativity and the possibility of dematerialization of a work of art, and rejecting the notion of art as an aesthetic value.