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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marina Abramović has received more than 7,959,582 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Marina Abramović is the 19th most popular artist (down from 13th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 21st 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 19 out of 125. Before her are Jean Arp, Käthe Kollwitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, and Luca Signorelli. After her are Kurt Schwitters, Adolph Menzel, Keith Haring, Josef Albers, David Hockney, and Banksy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Marina Abramović ranks 54. Before her are Liza Minnelli, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, André the Giant, Jang Song-thaek, Bob Beamon, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. After her are Charles Dance, Thongloun Sisoulith, Tim Curry, Barry Gibb, Dragan Džajić, and Dolly Parton.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Marina Abramović ranks 37 out of 661. Before her are Hostilian (230), Miloš Obrenović (1780), Vuk Karadžić (1787), Josip Jelačić (1801), Vojislav Koštunica (1944), and Maximinus II (270). After her are Nikola Pašić (1845), Herennius Etruscus (220), Alboin (530), Dragan Džajić (1946), Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876), and Aleksandar Vučić (1970).

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Among ARTISTS In Serbia

Among artists born in Serbia, Marina Abramović ranks 1. 

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