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The performance artist Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, the daughter of Yugoslavian Partisan parents. Her early performances were a form of rebellion against her strict upbringing as well as against the repressive culture of Tito’s post-war Yugoslavia. Like all her work, they were ritualistic and sometimes brutal purifications designed to free her of her own past.
Abramovic is part of a generation of artists from the early ’70s who chose performance as a means of expression. Her performances are a series of experiments aimed at identifying and defining limits: of her control over her own body; of an audience’s relationship with a performer; of art and, by extension, of the codes that govern society. Her profound focus is to discover a method, through art, to make people more free.
Abramovic has participated in the Venice Biennale, Paris Biennale, Documentas 6 & 7 and has had numerous museum shows. She currently lives in Amsterdam.