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Marina Abramović
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Serbian performance artist (born 1946)
Marina Abramović is a Serbian performance artist born in 1946 who is known for creating avant-garde art that often involves her own body and direct interaction with audiences. Her work matters because she has been influential in establishing performance art as a serious and respected form of artistic expression since the 1970s.
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Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Marina Abramović (born November 30, 1946 in Belgrade) is a New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the "grandmother of performance art". Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.
Known for
- Student Cultural Center — Herself2026
- The Room — Self2026
- The Hammer — Self2026
- OHO Film — Herself2025
- Can Creativity Save the World? — Self2024
- The Spirits of Maritime Crossing2023
- Codice Carla — Self2023
- The Dividers — Self (archive footage)2023
- Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End — Self - Artist2022
- Fragments of Paradise — Self2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Yugoslavia
- Place of birth
- Belgrade
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Educated at
- Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
- Languages spoken
- German
- Award
- Praemium Imperiale
- Participant in
- Venice Biennale
- Field of work
- endurance art
- Genre
- performance art
- Movement
- performance art
- Official website
- mai.art
- Image
- Marina Abramović.jpg
- Work location
- Hamburg
- Residence
- New York City
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- partner in business or sport
- Ulay
- Commons category
- Marina Abramović
- date of birth
- 1946-11-30
- ethnic group
- Serbs
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- pseudonym
- Abramović, Marina
- unmarried partner
- Ulay
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Marina Abramović, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, pronounced [marǐːna abrǎːmovitɕ]; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of artistic identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
Early life
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