Marina Abramović
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Mar 14, 2010 · Mar 14–May 31, 2010. This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen).
Watch the emotional reunion of Marina and Ulay, former lovers and collaborators, at MoMA's performance art exhibition The Artist is Present.
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- Isidora Smiljkovic
Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present, performed at the Museum of Modern Art, 2010 (photo: Alejandro Mallea, CC BY 2.0) “Sit silently with the artist for a duration of your choosing”—so the instructions read on a small plaque in the second-floor atrium at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present: Directed by Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre. With Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach, David Balliano. A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre
- 2012-07-05
Abramović’s presentation of her body is notably classical: in pictorializing it, in her staging, she privileges symmetry, a strong central image, and formal balance. In ‘The Artist is Present’, for instance, the table and chairs are placed centrally in a large demarcated square area of the atrium.
Jun 12, 2012 · “The Artist Is Present,” the centerpiece of an identically named 2010 retrospective of work by the performance artist Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was one of...
Aug 21, 2024 · Marina Abramovic, Yugoslav-born performance artist known for works that tested the endurance and limitations of her body and mind. Her notable projects include Balkan Baroque (1997), The House with the Ocean View (2002), and The Artist Is Present (2010). Learn more about Abramovic’s life and career.
