Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић; born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia, present day Serbia) is a New York-based Serbian and Yugoslavian 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 b...
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Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић; born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia, present day Serbia) is a New York-based Serbian and Yugoslavian 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.
Marina Abramović's grandfather's brother was a Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. After his death he was proclaimed a saint, embalmed, and placed in Temple of St. Sava in Belgrade. Both of her parents were Partisans during the Second World War: her father Vojo was a commander who was acclaimed as a national hero after the War; her mother Danica was a major in the army, and in the mid-sixties was Director of the Museum of the Revolution and Art in Belgrade.
Abramović's father left the family in...
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