Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović Cv

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form, creating some of the most important early works in this practice. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits in works that ritualise the simple actions of everyday life, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. From 1975–88, Abramović and the German artist Ulay performed together, dealing with relations of duality. Abramović returned to solo performances in 1989.

Marina Abramović has become one of the first performance artists to become formally accepted by the institutional museum world with major solo shows taking place throughout Europe and the US over a period of more than 25 years. These include the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,1985; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990; Neue National Galerie, Berlin, 1993, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford,1995. She has also participated in many large-scale international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1976 and 1997) and Documenta VI, VII and IX, Kassel (1977, 1982 and 1992). Recent performances include  the Performance 7 easy pieces at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2005. In 2010, MoMA, NY held a performance retrospective The Artist Is Present which included a three month long performance by Abramović in the main atrium of the museum as well as reenactments and documentation of many historical performances.

Marina Abramović will open the M.A.I (Marina Abramović Institute) in 2012 to support the future exploration and promotion of performance art.

Marina Abramović lives and works in New York, NY.
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Marina Abramović Press

Marina Abramović Exhibitions

Marina Abramović Public Exhibitions

PAST

The Artist is Present
Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
11 October - 4 December 2011
Garage

54th Venice Biennale - Personal Structures
Palazzo Bembo, Venice
4 June - 27 November 2011
Personal Structures

The Life and Death of Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović, Antony, Willem Dafoe, Robert Wilson
The Lowry, Manchester International Festival, Manchester
9 July 2011 - 16 July 2011
MIF

elles@centrepompidou
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Until 21 February 2011
Centre Pompidou

Marina Abramović
The Artist is Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York
14 March 2010 - 31 May 2010
MoMA

Marina Abramović Images

Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present Installation shot of performance at MoMA, NY 2010 © 2010 Photographs by Marco Anelli

Marina Abramović The Onion Single screen projection Dimensions variable 1995

Marina Abramović REST ENERGY with ULAY Black and white photograph 165 x 125 cm 1980

Marina Abramović 7 Easy Pieces: Entering the Other Side C-Print 226.1 x 153 cm 2005

Marina Abramović Me and Me Sliver gelatin print 100 x 100 cm 2008

Marina Abramović Balkan Baroque I C-Print 124 x 216 cm 1997

Marina Abramović The Kitchen VI Homage to Saint Therese Black & White Pigment print on cotton paper 136 x 126 cm 2009

Marina Abramović White Dragon, 1989 Oxidized Copper, Obsidiana 250 x 52.3 x 46 cm

Marina Abramović Point of Contact, 1980 Single screen projection