Josipa Bubaš graduated in Art History and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She received her PhD from the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at the University of Zadar with a dissertation entitled The Corporeality of Performance and the Performance of Corporeality. In 2021, Leykam International published her book Izvedba tijela i tjelesnost izvedbe (The Performance of the Body and the Corporeality of Performance). Her research brings theory and practice together.

As a performer and co-author, she has participated in a range of artistic projects. Since 2012, she has also been developing her own artistic practice. She has presented numerous performances at festivals and in galleries, museums, and public spaces. She conceives and leads performance-based and interdisciplinary workshops and projects, and is currently developing a performance methodology grounded in her doctoral research.

She has published around one hundred articles in various professional journals, on Croatian Radio 3 (HR 3), and on online platforms. She has participated in conferences and published scholarly papers. As an external lecturer, she has taught at the Academy of Dramatic Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2025, she enrolled in the MA programme in New Performative Practices at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).