Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form's most important early works. Exploring her physical and mental limits, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. She founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) in 2007, a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Abramović was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2010, Abramović had her first major US retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in The Artist is Present at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her retrospective The Cleaner opened at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in 2017, and toured to seven additional European venues, ending at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, in 2019. In 2020, the Bayerische Staatsoper presented the world premiere of 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, which has continued to tour internationally. In 2023 she will present the solo exhibition After Life at the Royal Academy, London, and will become the first female artist in the institution’s 250-year history to occupy the entire gallery space with her work. She will also present two shows at Lisson Gallery London this autumn, in Cork Street and Lisson Street.
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Statement
Why are we doing this show together?
In the past, in art history, there were some great examples of friendship between artists. Right now, today, these kinds of friendships are extremely rare and are almost non-existent, there are many reasons for this. Art has become more of a commodity, which creates this distance between artists.
I am very excited to show with two young artists, whose work I know, and have gained my respect, in the process of which we became friends. In art, age does not exist, it is all about the ideas and the content. For our upcoming exhibition, "The Humble Works", I am seeing this as an ongoing dialogue between Nico, Fyodor and me, as well as a conversation with some masters from different periods of our human history.
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Artworks
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Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Centre d'Art le LAIT, Albi, France
Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Fundación NMAC Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Wallis, Sion, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Niepołomicach, Niepolomice, Poland National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden