Marina Abramović has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form’s most important early works. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Abramović was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2008 she was decorated with the Austrian Commander Cross for her contribution to art history. Abramović founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Marina Abramović
