Marina Abramovic
Exclusive video: Marina Abramovic advises public to complain to a tree to help heal from 2020
Complain to a Tree is the latest addition to the “Abramovic Method”, a series of exercises developed by the artist for practicing being present, which she will reveal on a new Sky Arts programme
NewsPublic art
Marina Abramovic work to show on 'world's largest digital canvas' in London
Curator Marco Brambilla says public art programme on vast screens off Tottenham Court Road will rival Tate's Turbine Hall commissions in impact
InterviewMarina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic TV: five-hour takeover will teach you everything you need to know about performance art
As well as her new Sky Arts programme, the artist's mixed reality work The Life will be sold at Christie’s this month, with an estimate of £400,000-£800,000
FeatureArtists
Opera as art: the rise of the artist as impresario
Marina Abramovic's opera The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, which opened to a socially distanced audience in Munich last week, is the latest in a long history of artistic explorations of the art form
Personal stories of coronavirus
See how artists have been handling the pandemic in Hirshhorn Artist Diaries series
Howardena Pindell, Arlene Shechet, Eric Gottesman, and Marina Abramovic reflect on what it is like to work in isolation as part of a “living archive” of videos commissioned by the museum, and shared exclusively with The Art Newspaper
InterviewMarina Abramovic
‘It is dangerous for artists when the events of the day change their work’: Marina Abramovic on art and the coronavirus pandemic
The performance artist has been in lockdown in Austria and spoke to us exclusively about making work in isolation and following Matisse’s example as a response to the crisis
NewsObituaries
Pioneering performance artist Ulay has died, aged 76
Marina Abramović's former partner and collaborator passed away in Ljubljana
BlogDiary
Miles Greenberg—mentee of Marina Abramovic—stages visually absorbing performance in New York
Greenberg has previously performed at Manifesta 11 and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center
NewsExhibitions
Radical performance artist Ulay gets a solo show at Stedelijk Museum
In the years before and after his collaboration with Marina Abramović, he created important works, curators say
NewsArt market
Marina Abramovic’s The Life to become first mixed reality work ever auctioned
Christie’s will sell the piece with a £600,000 price tag next October to coincide with artist’s Royal Academy retrospective
NewsArt fairs
'It was painful, it was hardship': Marina Abramovic on her ill-fated, epic walk towards Ulay across the Great Wall of China
Three decades after the artists made the journey, in the dying throes of their relationship, PhotoFairs Shanghai is showing the work for the first time in the country
NewsExhibitions
Bare necessities: would you brush up against naked performers to get inside Marina Abramovic’s 2020 London show?
Artist's famous nude performance—first done with Ulay—to be recreated in her retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts next year
NewsTechnology
Marina Abramovic to make digital appearance at London's Serpentine Galleries
Performance using cutting-edge Magic Leap One device is world first
NewsMarina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic attacked with painting at exhibition in Florence
An amateur artist hit the artist over the head with framed work on paper
NewsMarina Abramovic
‘We’re all in the same boat’: Marina Abramovic poster angers Italian right-wing politician
Trieste deputy mayor Paolo Polidori calls image commissioned for sailing regatta “political propaganda”
NewsCommercial galleries
Radical performance artist Ulay to show rarely seen works in London exhibition
Marina Abramovic’s ex-partner has signed up with Richard Saltoun gallery
NewsArt market
From Marina Abramovic's face to a butcher's shop diorama, early sales at Masterpiece London
UK capital's heatwave lends a relaxed summer atmosphere to cross-collecting fair, where deals are done at a slower tempo than at contemporary events
BlogThe Buck stopped here
'Cut into your finger and sprinkle urine on bad dreams': Marina Abramovic shares her spiritual recipes
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Anish Kapoor and Marina Abramovic battle it out at launch of new VR works
NewsArtists
Marina Abramovic turns Seven Deaths project into an opera to debut in Munich in 2020
Artist will direct the production, which was originally conceived as a cinematic tribute to her lifelong hero Maria Callas
BlogThe Rachel Report
Smells like Marina spirit
Abramovic’s show in 2020 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts will mark the first time a woman has been the subject of a retrospective at the prestigious institution
ArchiveExhibitions
First major retrospective of Marina Abramovic in Europe opens in Denmark
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in in Humlebæk will stage reperformances of some of her most famous pieces
ArchiveNews
Marina Abramovic will be done with dying after "Seven Deaths"
She will be stepping into her hero Maria Callas' shoes for the project
ArchiveArt Basel
Art Basel devises new strand devoted to performance art
New one-off inclusion includes works by Abramovic, Ono and Nauman
ArchiveExhibitions
Marina Abramovic dies on stage
The ceremony is part of the US debut of “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic”
ArchiveFilms
New Abramovic film explores public and private endurance tests
Akers's film recounts the artist’s decades of arduous performances—and reveals a charming woman beneath the steely surface
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with dealer Sean Kelly: Marina Abramovic, art fairs, and expanding off the beaten path
The British-born dealer may be a reluctant power-player, but his new, larger space reflects his place in the pecking order
ArchiveFilms
"Art in the Twenty-first Century" brings big personalities to the small screen
This US television series offers insights into the history and practice of artists from Marina Abramovic to Ai Weiwei
ArchiveNews
Marina Abramovic hires Rem Koolhaas to design her centre
The museum will purportedly need $8m in funds
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Antony Hegarty: “I think the art world is where I belong”
The musician explains why he is performing in the stage production The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic
ArchiveFeatures
Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken and Matthew Barney are leading the way in a new kind of theatrical art
"In long, durational performance, you change the performer and the public" says Abramovic
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Marina Abramovic: "Life is getting faster, the art has to go slower”
Marina Abramovic on the pain of sitting still, being the black sheep of the family and working with Robert Wilson
ArchiveExhibitions
Marina Abramovic exhibition opens at the Lisson Gallery
She enthused over the photo posing techniques perfected by Marilyn Monroe
ArchiveExhibitions
Marina Abramovic's the Artist is Present at MoMA
This massive retrospective will include recreations of past pieces as well as a new, physically demanding work
ArchiveExhibitions
Abramovic takes over MoMA with The Artist is Present and a selection of past works
Artist reveals plans for the longest performance of her career
ArchiveExhibitions
News from New York: Marathon sailing and cycling, while Marina Abramovic bares all
The Yugoslavian artist draws the crowds at the Guggenheim with her racy restaging of iconic performance art
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Marina Abramovic on her reperformances at the Guggenheim: Back to the classics
The Yugoslav-born artist will re-enact famous performances from the 1970s this month
ArchiveExhibitions
Marina Abramovic's The house with the ocean view at the Sean Kelly gallery
The artist will be living for 12 long days within a set of purpose-built structures in the gallery while obeying a whole sequence of self-imposed strictures
ArchiveFeatures
Marina Abramovic: reflecting on the good witch of the East
The Yugoslavian-born artist continues to animate audiences with her exercises in pleasure and pain