Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic is a Serbia-born conceptual and performance artist whose work examines the body, endurance, the relationship between performer and audience, and the transformative potential of the mind. Often described as the "grandmother of performance art," she has been active for more than forty years. In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the study and preservation of long-duration performance.