Marina Abramović studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade between 1965 and 1970; she currently lives in New York. At the end of the 1960s, she left off painting and drawing for performance and body art and explores concepts such as pain, pleasure, violence, fear and consciousness through her body. In 1976, she settled in Amsterdam, where she met artist Uwe Laysiepen – Ulay – with whom she formed the collective known as The Other until 1988, years in which photography, cinema and video took a preeminent place in her creative process. Her personal experience in the Balkans, Laos, China and the Sahara Desert, among others, are reflected in video installations as exercises of introspection that reflect on the cultural references of these places. Abramović received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (1997), the Niedersächsischer Kunstpreis (2003) and the New York Dance and Performance Award, known as “The Bessies” (2003), among other awards.
Numerous individual and collective exhibitions have displayed her work all over the world: the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1990), Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca (1996), Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (2001), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela (2003), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2005) and the New York Museum of Modern Art (2010).
A representation of her work can be found in the collections of museums as important as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Stedelij Museum in Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art of Sydney, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Fons National d’Art Contemporain in France, Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
DISEÑO WEB MALLORCA