Marina Abramović
About the Event
Living Art
Marina Abramović (born 1946 in Belgrade) is one of the most eminent contemporary artists. Considered the founder of modern performance art, she has written art history with her legendary appearances. From her beginnings in the Belgrade of the 1970s, she has, over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, firmly established performance as a genre of visual art. Already in 1978, she had her first appearance in Vienna at the International Performance Festival.
The exhibition, curated for Vienna by Bettina M. Busse, will offer a comprehensive overview of the artist’s oeuvre. The focus of the presentation at the Albertina Modern will be on reenactments of the historical performances, which will be shown daily throughout the exhibition. Performance art has a long tradition in Vienna, with Actionism as its best-known manifestation.
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For the retrospective, the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien will, in a collaborative exhibition design created with the artist, set up rooms that are each dedicated to a specific theme such as participation, communism, body limits, energy from nature, or enlightenment. Exhibits on display there will include early works created in Belgrade, the first solo performances, her collaboration with Ulay and the legendary joint performances, the participation-inviting Transitory Objects for Human Use, which marked the beginning of her second solo career, the spectacular Balkan Baroqueperformance, for which she received a Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennale, as well as more recent video and sculptural works. In addition, her installation Four Crosses (2019) will be shown in the nearby St. Rupert’s Church.
Exclusive special opening with time slots from Saturday to Tuesday | 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Ticket: 25 euros
Trigger warning: violence, self-harm, nudity, light stimuli
Ages 16 and up
Dates
- Thu 12/18/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 12/19/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 12/20/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 12/21/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 12/22/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 12/23/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 12/24/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 12/25/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 12/26/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 12/27/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 12/28/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 12/29/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 12/30/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 12/31/2025 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 01/01/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 01/02/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 01/03/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 01/04/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 01/05/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 01/06/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 01/07/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 01/08/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 01/09/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 01/10/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 01/11/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 01/12/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 01/13/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 01/14/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 01/15/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 01/16/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 01/17/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 01/18/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 01/19/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 01/20/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 01/21/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 01/22/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 01/23/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 01/24/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 01/25/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 01/26/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 01/27/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 01/28/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 01/29/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 01/30/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 01/31/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 02/01/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 02/02/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 02/03/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 02/04/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 02/05/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 02/06/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 02/07/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 02/08/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 02/09/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 02/10/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 02/11/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 02/12/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 02/13/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 02/14/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 02/15/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 02/16/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 02/17/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 02/18/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 02/19/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 02/20/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 02/21/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 02/22/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 02/23/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 02/24/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 02/25/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Thu 02/26/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 02/27/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sat 02/28/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 03/01/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Event Location
- Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien
- info@albertina.at
- https://www.albertina.at/albertina-modern/
