Marina Abramović

Serbian performance artist (born 1946) · Serbia · Artists

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She made her body the experiment - standing still for hours while strangers did what they wanted, cutting herself on camera, locking eyes with thousands one by one. For over forty years she's asked how much a person can take and what happens when the audience becomes part of the act.

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A life in dates

2025Praemium ImperialeAward2023“When I conceive work, I always want it to deal with three elements of human fears: suffering, pain and the priority of our existence.”In their words26 October 2023"Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023).Read the whole statement

“The ego is the most dangerous thing for an artist. That you start believing in your grandeur, that’s the end of your creativity.”In their words26 October 2023"Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023).Read the whole statement

“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.”In their words26 October 2023"Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023).Read the whole statement

“Instagram is not art. Social media is not art.”In their words26 October 2023"Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023).Read the whole statement

“Risk just for risk, I’m not interested. If you create something artificial, it’s not good. People are so afraid of simplicity, but it works.”In their words26 October 2023"Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023).Read the whole statement

“There is something that I believe: When you’re in balance with yourself and your surroundings, everything happens that’s supposed to happen.”In their words26 October 2023"Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023).Read the whole statement

Sonning PrizeAward2012Berliner BärAward2008Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAward1946Born30 November 1946

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Marina Abramović

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When I conceive work, I always want it to deal with three elements of human fears: suffering, pain and the priority of our existence.
Oct 26, 2023, "Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023)., Own words
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.
Oct 26, 2023, "Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023)., Own words
The ego is the most dangerous thing for an artist. That you start believing in your grandeur, that’s the end of your creativity.
Oct 26, 2023, "Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth" by David Marchese. New York Times Magazine (October 26, 2023)., Own words

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Awards

Praemium Imperiale2025

Sonning Prize2023

Berliner Bär2012

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art2008

Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts

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Spouse Neša Paripović

Spouse Paolo Canevari

About this person

Born in Belgrade on November 30, 1946, Abramović turned performance art into a test of endurance and trust. Her work confronts pain, blood, and physical limits head-on, pulling observers out of passivity and into participation. The Evening Standard called her "perhaps the single most important figure in performance art"; Aesthetica said she "reshaped the very language" of the form. She calls herself the "grandmother of performance art." In 2007 she founded the Marina Abramović Institute, a non-profit dedicated to the discipline she spent four decades redefining.

Country

Serbia

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