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Born 1946 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Known for: Performance art, sculpture.
Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since 1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City.... Read full biography
Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since 1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City. In Amsterdam, she is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Braunschweig. She graduated from the... Read full biography
Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since 1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City. In Amsterdam, she is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Braunschweig. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972, completing postgraduate studies in Zagreb in 1972. In 2002 in New York City, she put herself on display for twelve days on a stage set at the Sean Kelly... Read full biography
Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since 1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City. In Amsterdam, she is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Braunschweig. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972, completing postgraduate studies in Zagreb in 1972. In 2002 in New York City, she put herself on display for twelve days on a stage set at the Sean Kelly Gallery, sleeping, staring, standing, meditating, fasting, urinating, defecating, contemplating, showering in public before a gallery audience for one hundred eighteen of the two-hundred seventy-one total performance hours. This work was called "The House... Read full biography
Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since 1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City. In Amsterdam, she is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Braunschweig. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972, completing postgraduate studies in Zagreb in 1972. In 2002 in New York City, she put herself on display for twelve days on a stage set at the Sean Kelly Gallery, sleeping, staring, standing, meditating, fasting, urinating, defecating, contemplating, showering in public before a gallery audience for one hundred eighteen of the two-hundred seventy-one total performance hours. This work was called "The House with the Ocean View.". From 1976 to 1988, Abramovic and F. Uwe Laysiepen (performance name "Ulay") worked... Read full biography
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Performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. She is primarily a European artist, living in Amsterdam since 1976, but has done extensive exhibiting in New York City. In Amsterdam, she is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at Braunschweig.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1972, completing postgraduate studies in Zagreb in 1972.
In 2002 in New York City, she put herself on display for twelve days on a stage set at the Sean Kelly Gallery, sleeping, staring, standing, meditating, fasting, urinating, defecating, contemplating, showering in public before a gallery audience for one hundred eighteen of the two-hundred seventy-one total performance hours.&nb...But wait, there's more...
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