Marina Abramović
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form. She created some of the most important early works in this practice, including Rhythm 0 (1974), in which she offered herself as an object of experimentation for the audience, as well as Rhythm 5 (1974), where she lay in the centre of a burning five-point star to the point of losing consciousness. These performances married concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control, passivity with danger. They pushed the boundaries of self- discovery, both of herself and her audience. They also marked her first engagements with time, stillness, energy, pain, and the resulting heightened consciousness generated by long durational performance.
In 2012, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art, that focuses on performance, long durational works, and the use of the ‘Abramović Method’. MAI is a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Abramović was 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. In 2023, Abramović will be the first female artist to host a major solo exhibition in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her first European retrospective ‘The Cleaner’ was presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017, followed by presentations at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, Henie Onstad, Sanvika, Norway (2017), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (2018), Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun (2019), and concluding at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia (2019). 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.
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B. 1946 in Belgrade. Lives and works in New York.
Education
1970 – 72 Post diploma studies, Academy of Fiffne Arts, Zagreb
1965 – 70 Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (forthcoming)
2023 ‘Marina Abramović’, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023‘7 Deaths of Maria Callas’, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
2022 ‘Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals’, Modern Art Oxford, UK
2022 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany; Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy
2022 ‘Marina Abramovic: Portrait as Biography’, Bernal Espacio Galeria, Madrid, Spain
2022 ‘Memory of Being’, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2021 ‘Marina Abramović & Ulay: The Collection: Performances 1976-1988’, Musée d’art Contemporain, Lyon, Lyon, France
2021 ‘Seven Deaths’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2021 ‘Traces’, WePresent, WeTransfer, The Truman Brewery, London, UK
2021 ‘7 Deaths of Maria Callas’, Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, Paris, France;
2021 Greek National Opera – Stavros Niarchos Hall, Athens, Greece
2021 ‘Marina Abramović: That Self / Our Self’, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
2020 ‘Akış / Flux’, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 ‘7 Deaths of Maria Callas’, Bayerische Staatsoper - Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Germany
2019 LightSociety, Beijing, China
2019 Cripta San Sepolcro, Crypt of the Holy Sepulcher, Milan, Italy
2019 ‘The Hunt’, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
2019 ‘The Cleaner’, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
2019 ‘The Cleaner’, Centre of Contemporary Art, Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland
2019 ‘Marina Abramović’, The Light Society, Beijing, China
2019 ‘The Life’, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2018 ‘Marina Abramovic Early Works’, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA
2018 ‘The Cleaner’, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2018 ‘Two Hearts’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2017 ‘Abramović Method for Treasures’, The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 ‘Dozing Conciousness’, Gallery Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
2017 ‘The Cleaner’, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Henie Onstad, Sandvika, Norway
2017 ‘The Kitchen’, Zuecca Project Space, Venice, Italy
2016 ‘As One’, NEON + MAI, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2016 ‘The Space In Between: Marina Abramović and Brazil’, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA
2015 ‘Terra Comunal – Marina Abramović + MAI’, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 ‘Places of Power’, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 ‘Private Archaeology’, Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Australia
2015 ‘Marina Abramović: In Residence’, Pier 2/3, Sydney, Australia 2014
2015 ‘White Space’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2015 ‘Holding Emptiness’, Contemporary Art Center, Malaga, Spain
2015 ‘Entering the Other Side’, Kistefos Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
2015 ‘512 Hours’, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2015 ‘Generator’, Sean Kelly, New York, NY, USA