Marina Abramović
Posted by Fabio 3 June 2010
A pioneer of performance art, Marina Abramović (born Yugoslavia, 1946) began using her own body as the subject, object, and medium of her work in the early 1970s. For the exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern Art’s first performance retrospective, Abramović performed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010.
Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. This comprehensive photo gallery contains a record of each participant.
The Artist Is Present is Abramovic’s longest performance to date.
4 min
14 min
15 min
16 min
19 min
420 min
See all the portraits on MoMA’s Flickr account here
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