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
Marina Abramovic - Artist Info
About Marina Abramovic: Books
Books & Publications (10)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Marina Abramovic Public Body
2002
Abramovic, Marina; G Celant
364 pages (color)
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s
1999
Bann, Stephen, et al
279 pages
Marina Abramovic. Artist Body Performances 1969-1998