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Marina Abramović: Historical Works and Transforming Energy
Marking the artist's 80th birthday, an expanded version of the Venice Biennale show pairing historical performance works (Imponderabilia, Balkan Baroque, The Artist is Present) with a selection of her Transitory Objects. Curated by Shai Baitel and Andrea Tarsia.
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Preview: written before the show opened
The Transitory Objects in this show are made to be used. The museum says visitors can lie, sit or stand on stone beds and structures built with quartz, amethyst, agate and other minerals. Abramović describes the effect as a process of energy transmission between the human body, matter and geological time.
Alongside them are the historical works, curated by Andrea Tarsia: Imponderabilia (1977), Balkan Baroque (1997), which won the Golden Lion at Venice, and The Artist is Present (2010), from MoMA. The show expands the Transforming Energy presentation from the Venice Biennale and marks her 80th birthday. If you lie on a quartz bed with your eyes shut, it's the longest your phone will stay unchecked since the last tram 8 delay at Largo Argentina.
It opens on 18 November and runs to 4 April 2027. Entry is included in the €17 gallery ticket, Tuesday to Sunday 9am to 7pm, closed Mondays.
Editor's pick
You can lie on the stone beds: quartz, amethyst and agate structures built to be used, not looked at. Beside them sit the performances that made her name, from Imponderabilia to MoMA's The Artist is Present.
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The stone beds
Beds and structures made with quartz, amethyst, agate and other minerals, which you are invited to lie, sit or stand on.
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- Marina Abramović: Historical Works and Transforming EnergyCourtesy of La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
- Marina Bindella. CosmografieCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- Titian. Dialogues between the Sacred and the ProfaneCourtesy of Galleria Borghese
- HyperMediaCourtesy of MAM – Media Art Museum
- La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)Daderot via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Museo Carlo BilottiKrzysztof Golik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Galleria BorgheseAlessio Damato, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo dell'Ara PacisCouncil, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain