The starting point of the thesis The medium of human skin in contemporary body art is the perception of this medium throughout history, its role and purpose in the context of human culture and art history. The thesis focuses on the perception of human skin within today's cultural paradigm and performance and body art, specifically for body modification within tattooing. Leather is one of the oldest and most complex visual and psychological media used throughout human civilization and art history. Her role and significance changed during artistic periods; it was only in contemporary art that human skin was given the role of a medium by which the whole concept of the artist was presented to the audience. It was in the 1960s that such a concept was embodied through performance, the human body becoming an integral component in the creation of a work of art. It becomes the subject with whom a particular message and idea is conveyed. Today, developing from body art; tattoo becomes a specific medium that, in the process of permanently marking the skin of the human body, is modified from rituals, through crafts to forms of artistic expression.