'8 Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End' is a video installation in which Marina Abramovic addresses the topic of violence as it is portrayed in contemporary media. The five channels of the installation,...
'8 Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End' is a video installation in which Marina Abramovic addresses the topic of violence as it is portrayed in contemporary media. The five channels of the installation,...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to make himself equal with the...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
In the installation, the video image is rotated so that the figure stands upright. The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and...
In the installation, the video image is rotated so that the figure stands upright. The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
In the installation, the video image is rotated so that the figure stands upright. The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The multi-channel installation 'Balkan Erotic Epic' is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic. According to her, it is through eroticism that the human tries to...
The installation 'Count on Us' includes five videos: 'Star', 'Boy', 'Girl', 'Chorus' and 'Tesla Electricity', all projected in one room. 'Star' depicts an aerial view of Abramovic, lying on the ground and...
Just like 'Tesla Electricity', one of the videos that belong to the installation 'Count on Us' (Abramovic 2004), 'Tesla Urn' is dedicated to the Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla, who made some...
'At The Waterfall' is a video projection of 108 images, each showing a Tibetan monk or nun, chanting in meditative abandon. A 'waterfall' of sound pervades the space. The work was commissioned by...
The work includes a video projection of Marina Abramovic dancing the Mambo, a performance she gave in an empty mental hospital in Voltara, Italy. She is dancing on a steel platform identical to the one on the...
Static black and white images show a close up of Marina Abramovic laying on the shores of the sea, facing the sky. Her eyes are closed and the ocean waves intermittently flow under the arch of her neck and...
Abramovic dedicated 'The Hero' to her father, who was a soldier in World War II. Her mother was helping wounded soldiers at the front line, but at a certain moment got typhus in the middle of a battle. As the...
When projected, the videos in the installation 'The Hunt' form a horizontal strip, divided by black strokes framing the images. In black and white each video shows the torso of a shirtless male dancer...
'The video images in Balkan Baroque are spatially organized like a triptych, in the middle of which there is a life-size portrait showing Abramovic as a dual self. In the first part she is dressed in a white...
Originally part of the installation 'Spirit House' (Abramovic 1997), 'Dozing Consciousness' is currently part of Abramovic's 'Video Portrait Gallery'. The single-channel work shows the face of artist buried...
Originally part of the installation 'Spirit House' (Abramovic 1997), 'Lost Souls' is currently part of Abramovic's 'Video Portrait Gallery'. The single-channel work shows the artist, who slowly, very slowly,...
The installation 'Spirit House' initially included five parts, 'Dissolution', 'Insomnia', 'Luminosity', 'Dozing Consciousness' and 'Lost Souls', but now exclusively contains the first three videos, whereas...
The video opens with an extreme close up of Marina Abramovic's face turned upside down. Her face is red from the blood rushing to her head. She is motionless and still, narrating her 'image of happiness': 'I...
The video opens with an extreme close up of Marina Abramovic's face turned upside down. Her face is red from the blood rushing to her head. She is motionless and still, narrating her 'image of happiness': 'I...
'In Between' is an installation occupying two adjacent rooms. In order to see the video that is projected in the main space, the visitors of the exhibition first have to enter a smaller space, where they find...
The first shot is a close up of Abramovic looking upward and holding a large onion. Her fingernails are painted bright red, just like her lips. Slowly she brings the onion closer to her mouth, taking a large...
Originally the first in a series of three performances, 'Cleaning the Mirror I' has been transformed into a five-channel video installation. In the performance, Abramovic sits with a skeleton on her lap, next...
'Cleaning the Mirror II', now a single-channel piece, has originally been the second in a series of three performances. The video opens with the image of a skeleton laying supine on top of Marina Abramovic,...
In the performance 'Thomas Lips', Marina Abramovic undertakes a range of actions that push her physical limits to an extreme and finally result in the transgression of bodily boundaries. She starts off with...
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The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
The performances that belong to the 'Dragon Heads' series were the first that Marina Abramovic carried out after her separation from Ulay at the end of the famous 'The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk', in which...
In 1988, Ulay and Abramovic decided to end their relationship and to mark this with a performance, which became the legendary endpoint of their collaboration. After years of negotiations with the Chinese...
In 1988, Ulay and Abramovic decided to end their relationship and to mark this with a performance, which became the legendary endpoint of their collaboration. After years of negotiations with the Chinese...
In 1988, Ulay and Abramovic decided to end their relationship and to mark this with a performance, which became the legendary endpoint of their collaboration. After years of negotiations with the Chinese...
In the registration of the six-hour performance 'Freeing the Body' (December 1976) at the Mike Steiner gallery in Berlin, Abramovic can be seen standing naked in front of a white wall. An African drummer is...
In the registration of the six-hour performance 'Freeing the Body' (December 1976) at the Mike Steiner gallery in Berlin, Abramovic can be seen standing naked in front of a white wall. An African drummer is...
In the video of 'Freeing the Memory', Abramovic reels off all the words she can possibly remember. Seated on a chair with her head tilted backwards, Abramovic speaks Serbo-Croatian, now and then throwing in an...
In the video of 'Freeing the Memory', Abramovic reels off all the words she can possibly remember. Seated on a chair with her head tilted backwards, Abramovic speaks Serbo-Croatian, now and then throwing in an...
The premise of 'Freeing the Voice' is simple: screaming until the voice is lost. It was performed in Budapest in 1976. In the video recording, we see Abramovic lying on her back and tilting her head back so...
The premise of 'Freeing the Voice' is simple: screaming until the voice is lost. It was performed in Budapest in 1976. In the video recording, we see Abramovic laying on her back and tilting her head back so...
'Art must be Beautiful, Artist must be Beautiful' (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1975) is one of Abramovic's typical early performances. As with the 'Freeing...' series ('Freeing the Body', 'Freeing the Voice' and...
'Art must be Beautiful, Artist must be Beautiful' (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1975) is one of Abramovic's typical early performances. As with the 'Freeing...' series ('Freeing the Body', 'Freeing the Voice' and...
In the performance 'Thomas Lips', Marina Abramovic undertakes a range of actions that push her physical limits to an extreme and finally result in the transgression of bodily boundaries. She starts off with...
In the performance 'Thomas Lips', Marina Abramovic undertakes a range of actions that push her physical limits to an extreme and finally result in the transgression of bodily boundaries. She starts off with...
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'Video Portrait Gallery' is an installation of single-channel works that function as portraits of the artist, as they mostly show Abramovic's face. According to Abramovic, the installation is a way of...
