Marina Abramovic

A Memoir

Walk Through Walls

Dan Graham

Studio Rags Media Collective

Olafur Eliasson

Assembled from the wisdom of 36 legendary art teachers – all of them artists or critics at the top of their field – Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life is an ideal curriculum for the aspiring artist. Each of the book’s "tutors" has provided a unique lesson that aims to provoke, inspire and stimulate the aspiring artist. These lessons cover some combination of the following: technical advice (e.g. don’t make a sculpture bigger than your studio door), assignments (some of which will take five minutes to complete, others five years), tips for avoiding creative ruts (including suggestions for mind&hyphen;expanding materials to read, watch or listen to), principles of careful looking (demonstrated with images of artworks, photographs, films or even billboard advertisements), advice on the daily practice of art (how to balance time alone in the studio with building an artistic community), career pointers (how to prepare for a studio visit from a curator or gallerist) and personal anecdotes (e.g. stories from the instructor’s own humble beginnings). Taken together, these lessons offer the reader a set of tools for thinking, seeing and living as an artist. Not only is Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life the first illustrated text book of its kind for artists, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art, providing first hand revelations into the philosophies and techniques of some of the world’s best artists and writers.

Lessons in Art + Life

Akademie X

'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' Observer This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years.

Marina Abramovic Pokonac mur Wspomnienia

James Kaplan

Attraversare i muri. Un'autobiografia

'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' Observer This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years. Abramovic has collaborated with stars from Lady Gaga to Jay-Z, James Franco and Willem Dafoe. Best known for her recent pieces 'The Artist is Present' and '512 Hours', this book is a fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important artists working today, and the woman who has been described as 'the grandmother of performance art'.

Katya Tylevich

A Visual Biography

Jeannette Fischer

susret umetnice i Žanet Fišer

Susret psihoanalitičarke i Marine Abramović

Duvarlardan Gecmek

David Elliott

RoseLee Goldberg

Thomas McEvilley

Chrissie Iles

"Marina Abramovic (born 1946) is one of the foremost contemporary performance artists. She has used her body and personal history both as a social metaphor and as a material for her work. This publication examines the whole range of her large production to date and establishes the common ground between her installations, videos, performances and objects. A series of articles written by leading art critics and specialists discuss the earliest paintings, sound installations and performances made in Yugoslavia during the 1960s and early 1970s; the years of collaborative performances with Ulay (1976-88); the videos, made both collaboratively and singly throughout her career; the so-called transitional objects which demand the participation of the viewer in order for them to be activated (1988-); the new, baroque and violently "theatrical" meta-performances Biography (1992) and Delusional (1994) and, most recently, the power objects, which indicate a new departure."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Objects, Performance, Video, Sound

Marina Abramović

Klaus Biesenbach

Kristine Stiles

"Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic (b. 1946) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art. Her body is her primary subject and medium, and she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in her ongoing quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the most historic early performance pieces. Of these artists, she is the only one still making important durational works." "Abramovic features prominently in virtually every survey published on performance art, and her works are held in the permanent collections of many of the world's top museums, including the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In November 2005 at New York's Guggenheim Museum, Abramovic staged a landmark weeklong series of performances entitled Seven Easy Pieces. Her twelve-day 'living installation', The House with the Ocean View was on numerous critics' lists as the best exhibition of 2002, and she was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennale for her video installation/performance Balkan Baroque."--BOOK JACKET.

Marina Abramović, um dos principais nomes da arte contemporânea, narra sua extraordinária história de vida e sua influente trajetória. Com uma carreira artística incomparável, Marina Abramović supera medo, dor, exaustão e perigo para realizar performances que relacionam os limites do corpo e as possibilidades da mente. E, para celebrar os 50 anos de performances inovadoras, Marina demonstrou mais de uma vez que é, verdadeiramente, uma força da natureza: realizou, no MoMA, em 2010, com fila de mais de 750 mil pessoas, a retrospectiva de seus trabalhos e uma performance sem precedentes.

Memórias de Marina Abramovic

Pelas paredes

Two Performances and Detour

Künstlerin trifft Jeannette Fischer

Psychoanalytikerin trifft Marina Abramovic

Ore Cultura

On the proposed Marina Abramović Institute in Hudson, NY.

Marina Abramovic Institute

Marina Abramovic has pioneered performance as a visual art form. She created some of the most important early works in this practice, including Rhythm 0 (1974), in which she offered herself as an object of experimentation for the audience, as well as Rhythm 5 (1974), where she lay in the centre of a burning five-point star to the point of losing consciousness.These performances married concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control, passivity with danger. They pushed the boundaries of self-discovery, both of herself and her audience. They also marked her first engagements with time, stillness, energy, pain, and the resulting heightened consciousness generated by long durational performance.This extensive catalogue provides a unique insight into the artist's working method and reflections. It is devoted to more than 50 years of drawings, sketches, thoughts, dreams and ideas produced in Abramovic's hand, and demonstrates the artist's methodological approach. The book thus provides valuable insight into the processes that provide further background knowledge on her performance and communal works.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Marina Abramovic: The Cleaner at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway (24 November 2017 - 11 March 2018).

Drawings 1963-2017

Germano Celant

Marina Abramovic's entire artistic philosophy revolves around energy.

Public Body : Installation and Objects, 1965-2001

Edmund Capon

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Contributions by Anthony Bond, Edmund Capon.

Marina Abramovic ... [et Al.].

Body

Adrian Heathfield

Tine Colstrup

Bojana Pejic

Devin Zuber

Die Publikation zur ersten Retrospektive von Marina Abramovic in Europa bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über ihr Werk der frühen Jahre bis heute: Film, Photographie, Malerei, Objekte, Installationen und Archivmaterial.

Marina Abramović - The cleaner

At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic is the progenitor of contemporary performance art At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic is one of the most discussed artists today. Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to expand the boundaries of art. This publication, accompanying her first major retrospective in Europe, gives an extensive overview of her work from the earliest years until today: film, photography, paintings and objects, installations and archival material. Since the early 1970s Abramovic has explored the intersection between performing and visual art in her work and, though rarely overtly political, posed questions of power and hierarchy. In addressing fundamental issues of our existence and seeking the core of such notions as loss, memory, pain endurance and trust, she both provokes and moves.

Marina Abramovic

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