La Pietà, 1993
Belgrad (Serbia and Montenegro), 1964. She lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. Educated at the Fine Arts Academy of Belgrad, she has built an important teaching career in institutions in Novi Sad, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg and Braunschweig. Her most well-known works are performances, objects, video installations and actions recorded in rather conceptually Baroque settings. From 1975 to 1988, Abramovic worked with Ulay, who was her mate at the time. Their relationship and artistic collaboration ended with the action entitled The Lovers, wherein, over a period of roughly three months, they both traveled the length of the Great Wall of China from opposite ends. In 1997, she received the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for Balkan Baroque. She has exhibited in museums all over the world, some of her most noteworthy solo shows including those held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1995; Fundació Miró, Palma de Mallorca, 1996; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 1997; Kiasma, Helsinki, 1999; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, 2001; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 2004; and ARTIUM, Vitoria, 2005. In 2004, she received an honorary doctorate from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by the galleries La Fábrica, Madrid, and Sean Kelly, New York.
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