Serbian performance artist (born 1946)
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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.
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.
Sourced, dated quotes from Marina Abramović
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.
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.
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