Marina Abramović
Birthday: 1946-11-30
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Biography: Marina Abramović (born November 30, 1946 in Belgrade) is a New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the "grandmother of performance art". Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.
Movies
Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance
“Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body tak...
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The Pink Biennal
Television special of five episodes directed by Alfredo Di Laura dedicated to the exhibition "Attivo...
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Marina Abramović und die Kunst des Hörens
Documentary shows how the relentless artist applies her method to the audience at a classical concer...
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Light/Dark
Ulay and Abramović take turns hitting each other in the face, gradually increasing speed and intensi...
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Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman
Award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman dives into the subject of creativity by meeting scientis...
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Burden
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked ...
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Can Creativity Save the World?
The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspir...
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Relation in Time
Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting...
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Balance Proof
Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies....
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Imponderabilia
"Naked we stand opposite each other in the museum entrance. The public entering the museum has to tu...
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Incision
Ulay is fixed to a wall by a fixed rubber cord, while Marina stands at the limit of Ulay's expansion...
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Why Are We (Not) Creative?
In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that in...
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Rico: The Richard DeMarco Story
Over six decades, Richard Demarco CBE, the Scottish artist and iconic promoter has brought 1000s of ...
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Our City Dreams
Filmed over the course of two years, Our City Dreams is the story of a woman's struggles and success...
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Balkan Baroque
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramo...
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The Spirits of Maritime Crossing
As Abramović's spectral odyssey unfolds, she encounters symbolic entities and pays homage to sacred ...
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Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End
Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysi...
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The Private Life of the Royal Academy
Filmed over 5 years, this documentary goes behind the scenes at one of Britain's most remarkable ins...
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Sleepless Nights Stories
Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, gal...
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Breathing In/Breathing Out
For this performance the two artists blocked their nostrils with cigarette filters and pressed their...
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Fragments of Paradise
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, docu...
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Relation in Movement
Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the m...
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Talking about Similarity
'Talking about Similarity' took place in Amsterdam, on November 30th, 1976. The performance, which l...
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Expansion in Space
In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each oth...
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Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a uni...
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Freeing the Voice
Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is lying on her back on the floor and screaming until her voice is l...
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Relation in Space
In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale...
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Freeing the Memory
‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina...
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The Space in Between: Marina Abramović and Brazil
Marina Abramović travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, exp...
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Igor Levit: No Fear
Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his ...
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Test Tube
Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived ...
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Franca: Chaos and Creation
Director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legend...
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Freeing The Body
Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Ab...
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Seven Easy Pieces
For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating...
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The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink
In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours th...
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4 Performances by Marina Abramovic 1975-1976
Documents four of Abramovic's solo works, exercises in which her body is the vehicle for a rigorous ...
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The Ferryman
In between performance, dance and cerémonies, "The Ferryman” is a choreographic exploration of ritua...
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Father
Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension....
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AAA-AAA
The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite e...
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Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version
The film explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into ever...
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Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60...
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim...
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Balkan Spirit
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning...
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InnSæi
A story of soul searching, science, nature and creativity, InnSæi takes us on a global journey to un...
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Why Are We Creative?
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, ...
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of ...
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Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful
I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a meta...
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The story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay
Legendary couple in performance art – Marina Abramović and Ulay – lived together for 12 years and ma...
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Rest Energy
Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at A...
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Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
This hourlong semi-documentary records the musical stage collaboration between director Robert Wilso...
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DAU. Degeneration
A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to ...
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Teslafy Me
A vision for a world free of pollution and climate problems, with energy available in abundance - ar...
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Ulay
Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina A...
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Homecoming – Marina Abramović and Her Children
The occasion is “The Cleaner,” a travelling retrospective exhibition of work by Marina Abramović, w...
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7 Deaths of Maria Callas
A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure...
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Body of Truth
Four female artists have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and inte...
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Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to...
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130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramovic
This one-take, 3-D film majestically documents legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic, captur...
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Mademoiselle C
A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld....
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Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of id...
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La rivoluzione siamo noi
Between 1967 and 1977 Italian Art experiences a moment of glory on the international art scene. Art ...
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512 Hours
In the summer of 2014, tens of thousands of guests flocked to the Serpentine Gallery in London to ex...
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Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World
As one art scene insider proclaims, the contemporary art world can be summed up as “rich people tryi...
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Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of ...
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Marina Abramovic, Era Milivojevic, Nesa Paripovic, Zoran Popovic in Zagreb, February 1972
Short 8mm experimental footage film....
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Pretty Good
Zoran Popovic and his friends in Edinburgh and surrounding area, around July and August of 1973....
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The Dividers
Following the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017, Shia LaBeouf and his artist friends launched a l...
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Rhythm 0: A Slide Show
A slide show of the performance "Rhythm 0" by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic in which she stands im...
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Body Art
Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art...
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The Future of Art
A film that came with a book in the same name, The Future of Art; A manual. The film contains docume...
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OHO Film
OHO is considered one of the most interesting, complex and important examples of post-war avant-gard...
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