Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist based in New York. She began her career in the early 1970s and became known for body art and endurance pieces. Marina Abramovic is seen nude in scenes from Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. She was born on November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Her work looks at the bond between performer and audience and how far the body can go. She calls herself the grandmother of performance art, and critics rank her among its most important figures. In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute, a non-profit foundation for performance art.