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| Marina Abramović Current and forthcoming exhibitions |
| Marina Abramović: 512 Hours Serpentine Gallery London, United Kingdom June 11 – August 25, 2014The Serpentine Gallery will present 512 Hours, a durational performance by Marina Abramović, from June 11 – August 25, 2014. This is a new work created specifically for the Serpentine Gallery, as well as Abramović’s first original performance piece to be exhibited in Great Britain. It will consist of Abramović performing an unscripted piece in the gallery for the duration of her exhibition from 10am to 6pm, 6 days a week, for a total of 512 hours.Abramović’s only materials will be herself, the audience and a selection of common objects that she will use in a constantly changing sequence of events. On arrival visitors must leave behind all of their bags, jackets, watches, electronic equipment and cameras before entering the exhibition space. The public will become the performing body, participating with Abramović in the delivery of this powerful new work. 512 Hours is free of charge and on a strictly first-come, first-served basis. There is no advance booking. For more information please visit the Serpentine Gallery website. On the occasion of Art 45 Basel, curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist have invited 14 international artists, including Marina Abramović, Allora & Calzadilla, Ed Atkins, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Damien Hirst, Joan Jonas, Laura Lima, Bruce Nauman, Otobong Nkanga, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, and Xu Zhen, to explore the relationship between space, time and physicality with an artwork whose “material” is the human being. Visitors will encounter a new situation within each of the 14 rooms, engaging in a diverse series of immersive and intimate experiences. Abramović’s room will feature a reenactment of her seminal performance Luminosity. The overall exhibition design by Herzog & de Meuron will serve as the interstitial structure tying the separate rooms together. 14 Rooms is a collaboration between Foundation Beyeler, Art Basel and Theater Basel. It will be staged in Hall 3 of Messe Basel and opens to the public ahead of Art Basel on June 14, running through June 22, 2014. It can be viewed daily from 10am to 7pm, with the exception of Monday, June 16, when it will be open from 10am to 5pm. For more information and to purchase tickets please visit the 14 Rooms website. Marina Abramović: Holding Emptiness Marina Abramović: Holding Emptiness is on display at CAC Málaga through August 31, 2014. The exhibition, curated by the museum’s director Fernando Francés, is the first solo exhibition of Abramović’s work in a Spanish museum within the last decade. The exhibition presents work spanning her entire career, including photographs, videos and a selection of thirty unpublished drawings, which come from three notebooks Abramović took with her on a trip to Brazil in the nineties. Following her travels to Brazil, China and India in the late eighties and nineties, Abramović created “transitory objects,” some of which are on display, including Chair for Human Use with Chair for Spirit Use. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the objects and experiment with the sensations they experience. There is a selection of photographs from her performances in the seventies, such as Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful and Rhythm 10, as well as those from her collaborations with Ulay. Additionally, there are videos of performances undertaken without a live audience. For more information please visit the CAC Málaga website. Marina Abramović: Entering the Other Side Marina Abramović: Entering the Other Side is on display at the Kistefos Museet through October 5, 2014. The exhibition features photographs and videos focusing on themes of life, death and sexuality. This is also the first time her recent video work The Scream, which was made at the Ekeberg Park in Oslo, will appear in an exhibition. Abramović travelled to Oslo in August of 2013 to collaborate with a cast of 300 of Oslo’s inhabitants to create a special, site-specific performance as an homage to Edvard Munch’s The Scream. With the same landscape as seen in the famous image by Munch as a backdrop, the inhabitants of Oslo released their emotions by screaming. A film crew was present to document the event and the project resulted in a documentary, an art film and a book. For more information please visit the Kistefos Museet website. Image: Marina Abramović, © Marco Anelli, Brazil, 2013 |