Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovićis a Yugoslav performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades, Abramović has been described as the "grandmother of performance art." She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body."...
NationalitySerbian
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth30 November 1946
CountrySerbia
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
When Lady Gaga says I am her inspiration, you reach kids between 12 and 18. Now I am like a brand - jeans, Coca-Cola.
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
Americans don't like European movies.
We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.
Cancer is an emotional disease.
I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.