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Marina Abramović

1946 - Today

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Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, pronounced [marǐːna abrǎːmovitɕ]; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of artistic identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marina Abramović is the 3rd most popular artist (up from 19th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 37th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Artist.

Marina Abramović is most famous for her performance art pieces, including Rhythm 0, in which she stood in a gallery and allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted to her for six hours.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Marina Abramović ranks 3 out of 125. Before her are Hokusai, and Andy Warhol. After her are Marcel Duchamp, M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, Hiroshige, and Joseph Beuys.

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Among people born in 1946, Marina Abramović ranks 12. Before her are George W. Bush, Hassanal Bolkiah, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Bill Clinton, David Lynch, and Sonia Gandhi. After her are Isaias Afwerki, Patti Smith, Alan Rickman, Marianne Faithfull, Ted Bundy, and Demis Roussos.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Marina Abramović ranks 5 out of 661. Before her are Constantine the Great (272), Jerome (345), Slobodan Milošević (1941), and Romulus Augustulus (460). After her are Probus (232), Odoacer (433), Maximinus II (270), Decius (201), Aurelian (214), Galerius (250), and Licinius (263).

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Among artists born in Serbia, Marina Abramović ranks 1. 

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