Galleri Brandstrup

Marina Abramovic

(Serbian, b. 1946)

Marina Abramovic

Portrait with Flowers, 2009

Marina Abramovic

The Kitchen IX, 2009

Marina Abramovic

The Kitchen VII, 2009

Biography

Timeline

1946: Born on November 30th in Belgrade, Serbia
1965 - 1970: Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
1973 - 1975: Teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
1973: Wins Sekretar Skoja Prize for Rhythm 5, Galleria Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
1983: Visiting professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1988: The Great Wall Walk (30 April-27 June)
1990 - 1991: Visiting professor at the Hochschule der Kunst
: Visiting professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1992 - 1996: Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig, Germany
1997 - 2004: Professor at the Hochschule Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany
1997: Golden Lion Award for Best Artist, XLVII Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1998: Board Member of the Contemporary Art Center, Kitakyushu, Japan
2001: Artist in residence at the Atelier Calder, Sache, France
2003: AICA USA Award
: Niedersächsicher Kunstpreis, 2003
: New York Dance and Performance Award
2004: American Art Critic Association Award. Honorary Doctorate Degrees from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A.
2007: AICA USA Award
: Gran Premio AECA “Gran Premio” Award, Madrid, Spain
2008: Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science & Art
2009: Lorenzo il Magnifico Career Award, Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2011: "Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present," The Garage, Moscow, Russia (solo)
"Marina Abramovic," Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, GA (solo)
"Exchange + Evolution," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
"Fertility," Akim Monet, Berlin, Germany
: "Publics and Counterpublics," Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
"For a Long Time…," Roberts & Tilton, Santa Monica, CA
: "The Luminous Interval," Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
: "L’Insoutenablle Légérete de l’Être," Yvon Lambert, New York, NY
: "L’Insoutenablle Légérete de l’Être," Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
: "Personal Structures," Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
: "Heroinas," Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza y Fundacion Caja, Madrid, Spain
: "10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland, and the European Avant Garde," Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh, Scotland
: "TRA. EDGE OF BECOMING," Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
: Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010. The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
: Goddesses, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
: Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
: The Hoerengracht, Amsterdam Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Brave New World, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
: That’s Life: Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst, Fondation Dina Vierny – Musée Maillol, Paris, France
: Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
: Human, 1988-2010. The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
: Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
: Human. Tmamac, Nice, France
: Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
: Hunt & Chase. Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, New York
: "Misericordia," Prism, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama," Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Take Two: Worlds and Views," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Everything is going to be alright," Kamu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
: "Marina Abramović," Lisson Gallery, London, England (solo)
: "Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
: "Marina Abramović: Personal Archaeology," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2010: "Back to Simplicity," Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: Human Rites. Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
: Chelsea Visits Havana, Havana Fine Arts Museum, Cuba
: Worlds on Video, Strozzina, Florence, Italy
: The Female Gaze: Women look at Women, Cheim & Reid, New York
: Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: 1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future? Video Art Comments on a Time Shift, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, New York.
: The Missing Peace, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
: Variables, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Brussels
: POURQUOI ATTENDRE!, Fonds Andre Iten at Centre d'Art de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
: Marina Abramovic: Irresistible, Galerie Cent 8, Paris, France (solo)
: Unconditional Love, Arsenale Novissimo Tesa 89, Venice Biennale, Venice Italy (solo)
2009: The Kitchen: Homage to Saint Therese, La Fabrica Galleria, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: When I Open my Eyes in the Morning, I see a Film, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
: The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
: Academia: Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
: I’ve Got Something in My Eye, Hessel Museum of Art - Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
: Photographic Works, To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
: WACK: Art and the Fiminist Revolution, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
: Video Performance: Models of Self-Reflection, Ausstellungshalle fur zeitgenossische Kunst Münster, Germany
: XXVIII Sâo Paulo Biennale, Sâo Paulo, Brazil
: Marina Abramovic: Videoinstalaciones, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2008: 8 Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (solo)
: Great Women Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
: Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
: Not Closed, beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
2007: Gehen bleiben, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2006: Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York City, NY
: Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY
: The Gesture, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Quarter, Center for Contemporary Arts, Florence, Italy
: Fragments of Time, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, New York
: Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
: Art in Eastern Europe, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
: DreamingNow, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
: Donna Donner, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
: CCA Kitakyushu Artist’s Books, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris
: etting Emotional, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MASS.
: Another Expo: Beyond the Nation-State, White Box, New York
: Seven Easy Pieces [Performances], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (solo)
: Self Portrait with Skeleton [Performance], Art Basel, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: (Re)Presenting Performance [Symposium], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (solo)
: Photographies et Objets/Count On Us, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2005: The Biography Remix [Performances], Avignon Theatre Festival, Avignon, France (solo)
: The Artist’s Body. Then and Now, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
2004: "Biography Remix," Fondazione Roma Europa, Rome, Italy (solo)
"Performing Body: Video Works By Marina Abramovic," Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (solo)
"Loop Performance," PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY (solo)
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
"Student Body," Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)

Public Collections

: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, France
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Literature

2005: Abramovic, Marina et. al. “ MoMA: How to Look at Modern Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2005, pp. 20-21.
: “Le Guide Culturelle: Vidéo du Corps à l’Ouvrage,” Elle, June 27 2005, p. 24.
: Hopkins, Randi, “I know what girls like,” The Boston Phoenix, Wednesday, January 12th, 2005.
: “Everybody at Art 36 Basel,” Artnet, June 20, 2005.
: Edgers, Geoff, “Perchance To Dream,” The Boston Globe, Friday, February4th, 2005, C1, C16.
: Edgers, Geoff, “Trying out sleep sculpture gives him pause,” The Boston Globe,Friday, February 4th, 2005, C1, C16.
: “Dreaming Now,” Sculpture, April 2005.
: De Baecque, Antoine, “Une vie de performances,” Libération Online, Wednesday, July 13, 2005.
: “Death and the maiden,” The Art Newspaper: Art Basel Edition, June 14, 2005, p. 1.
: Dailey, Meghan. “Feel Like Italian,” Art + Auction, Volume XXVII, No. 9, May 2005, p. 179.
: Cesare, Nikki T., “(Re)Performing the Score,” NY Arts, Vol. 10, No. 7.8, July/August 2005, pp. 22-23.
: Castle, Terry. “Desperately Seeking Susan,” London Review of Books, March 17,2005.
: Breerette, Geneviève, “L’insoutenable Marina Abramovic,” Le Monde 59e Edition du Festival d’Avignon, Tuesday, July 5th, 2005, p. 10.
: Boyce, David B., “Brandeis gallery hosts provocative ‘Dreaming’ exhibit,” Sunday Standard-Times, March 13th, 2005.
: Bishop, Claire. “Fairer Fare,” ArtForum Online, June 15, 2005.
: Bergeron, Chris, “Waking Dreams,” The Daily News, Sunday, March 6th, 2005, C1, C10.
: Bellet, Harry, “Le marché de l’art en spectacle à la Foire de Bâle,” Le Monde, June 18th, 2005, p. 29.
: Amy, Michaël. “You talkin’ to me?,” DITS: Violence, Vol. III, No. 5, Winter-Spring 2005, pp. 18-31.
: Maddocks, Phil, “Make it a date in the Dream Bed,” Natick Bulletin & TAB, February 25th, 2005.
: “Marina Abramovic: Autoportrait au Squelette,” Beaux Arts Magazine, June 2005, p. 112.