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Marina Abramović

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Marina Abramović

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Also known as Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramoviæ, Marina Abramovicz, M. Abramovic

Serbian performance artist (born 1946)

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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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Works
28

Top works

  • Marina Abramović/Ulay, Ulay/Marina Abramović
  • Marina Abramovic : Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places
  • Brushed Aside
  • Herstory of Art
  • MARINA ABRAMOVIC HABLA CON JOVANA STOKIC

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1946-11-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

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Total plays
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Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић; born November 30, 1946) is a Belgrade-born 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marina+Abramovi%C4%87">Read more on

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Quotes

  • When I conceive work, I always want it to deal with three elements of human fears: suffering, pain and the priority of our existence.
  • So many people choose to take pain as a way of life; there’s people who live a painful life in order to punish other people who they don’t want to be happy. To me it’s really about the choices you make in your life.
  • The ego is the most dangerous thing for an artist. That you start believing in your grandeur, that’s the end of your creativity.
  • Performance art never became a commodity because it’s immaterial.
  • If you think of anybody else selling work for millions, it’s the opposite for performance people. I still have a huge mortgage to pay. I still have to work every day because I never have the kind of money like artists who produce objects.
  • Instagram is not art. Social media is not art.

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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marina Abramović” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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