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Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović 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. Active for over four decades, she has been described by the Evening Standard as "perhaps the single most important figure in performance art", while Aesthetica noted her work has "…
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entertainment · Serbian performance artist (born 1946) · performance artist · photographer · video artist · sculptor · sound artist · university teacher · film producer · scenographer · film director · artist · also Marina Abramović, Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramoviæ, Marina Abramovicz, M. Abramovic, Abramović
Born 30 November 1946 · Q47496
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2026· 12 entries
Il Sole 24 ORE: Marina Abramović: a life of sensuality, death and the will to live
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Artsy: Works by Marina Abramović and Martin Creed featured in Balloon Museum New York’s inaugural show.
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The Guardian: ‘I’ve never done anything like this in my life’: Marina Abramović on making art with balloons
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Frieze: Marina Abramović | Galerie Krinzinger | Galleries
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The Hollywood Reporter: Lee Daniels, Nadine Labaki, Marina Abramovic Win Liberatum Pioneer Awards (Exclusive)
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Galerie Magazine: Balloon Museum Opens in New York with Marina Abramović Among Highlights
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Eastern Daily Press: When love became art: The untold story of Marina Abramović and Ulay
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Public attention spiked: 74,974 Wikipedia readers in one day, 47.1× the usual 1,592, with 6 article edits. Editors noted: Awards fix faulty wikilink
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Public attention spiked: 6,585 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 1,592, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 7,130 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.5× the usual 1,592, with 0 article edits.
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Is planned to have a solo exhibition titled Transforming Energy at Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia art biennale
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2025· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2025).
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2024· 1 entry
Abramović returned to China for her first-ever museum show in the country at Shanghai's Modern Art Museum (MAM)
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2023· 1 entry
Awarded Sonning Prize (2023).
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2022· 1 entry
Condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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2021· 1 entry
Abramović dedicated a monument, entitled, Crystal wall of crying, at the site of a Holocaust massacre in Ukraine and which is memorialized through the Babi Yar memorials
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2020· 2 entries
Her first major exhibition in the UK at the Royal Academy of Arts was rescheduled for autumn 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Microsoft released a promotional video for HoloLens 2 which featured Abramović
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2019· 2 entries
Yahoo: Artist Marina Abramovic opens exhibition in native Belgrade
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Yahoo: Marina Abramovic goes digital for new London performance
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2016· 1 entry
Abramović took over the Guggenheim museum (eleven years after her previous installation there) for her birthday party entitled "Marina 70"
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2015· 3 entries
PBS: Marina Abramovic
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Us Weekly: Marina Abramovic Was Wrong About Jay Z, Rapper Did Donate to Cause Despite “User” Claims
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Abramović publicly issued an apology stating she was never informed of Jay-Z's sizable donation
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2014· 1 entry
Page Six: Marina Abramovic presents the art of napping
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2013· 3 entries
IndieWire: Exclusive: Read Marina Abramovic’s Top 10 Films and Donate $5,000 for a Marina Movie Night
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Dale Eisinger of Complex ranked The Artist Is Present ninth (along with Rhythm 0) in his list of the greatest performance art works
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Abramović said, "My mother and father had a terrible marriage
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Berliner Bär (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
And the two also attended the 2012 Met Gala together
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2009· 1 entry
Abramović was featured in Chiara Clemente's documentary Our City Dreams and a book of the same name
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2008).
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Directed a segment Dangerous Games in another film compilation Stories on Human Rights
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2007· 2 entries
Abramović created the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a nonprofit foundation for performance art, in a 33,000 square-foot space in Hudson, New York
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Founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art
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2005· 1 entry
Abramović presented Seven Easy Pieces commissioned by Performa, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
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1998· 1 entry
Abramović described how her "mother took complete military-style control of me and my brother
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1997· 1 entry
Abramović created a multimedia Spirit Cooking installation
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1988· 2 entries
After several years of tense relations, Abramović and Ulay decided to make a spiritual journey that would end their relationship
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When she performed three-month walk along the Great Wall of China
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1980· 1 entry
Performed Rest Energy, in an art exhibition in Amsterdam, where both balanced each other on opposite sides of a drawn bow and arrow, with the arrow pointed at Abramović's heart
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1976· 2 entries
After moving to Amsterdam, Abramović met the West German performance artist Uwe Laysiepen, who went by the single name Ulay
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Following her marriage to Neša Paripović (between 1970 and 1976), Abramović went to Amsterdam to perform a piece, and then decided to move there permanently
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1973· 1 entry
Abramović explored elements of ritual and gesture
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1972· 1 entry
Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb (1972).
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1970· 2 entries
Proposed a similar idea to the same gallery that was also refused
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Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade (1970).
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1969· 1 entry
For the Galerija Doma Omladine in Belgrade
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-11-30.
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1933· 1 entry
And has been used as a theater and community tennis center
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