Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form's most important early works. Exploring her physical and mental limits, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.
Abramovic was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2010, Abramovic had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Abramovic founded Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Her most recent publication is Walk Through Walls: A Memoir, Published by Crown Archetype on October 25, 2016. Her retrospective The Cleaner opened at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in February 2017 and has toured to seven additional European venues, ending at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia in 2019. In 2021 she will present the solo exhibition After Life at the Royal Academy, and become the first female artist in the instiution’s 250 year history to occupy the entire gallery space with her work.
We are proud to announce the winning of the Sonning Prize by Marina Abramović. The renowned Danish prize is awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to European culture; the artist was indeed awarded for her lifelong contribution to performance art, being recognized as the “godmother of performance art”, using as her
An everyday and ephemeral element, food is, paradoxically, the object we mostly deal with throughout our existence. With the exhibition Food Age. Food as Influencer, Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke bring it onto the stage and, through a subliminal reading, they offer it to the public from an entirely new
Abramović presents this show, which combines opera, live art, performance art and video creation, to mark the centenary of the birth of Callas, also known as La Divina Assoluta. Entitled The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, it contains some of the iconic arias which studded the Greek soprano’s career and
BAB spans across various venues over a period of 4 months and helps transform the bustling city of Bangkok into a lively hub that celebrates art, creativity, and culture. Visitors are able to immerse themselves in an array of artworks from a diverse range of artists, both local and international throughout
