Marina Abramović, 2024, Roral Academy of Arts

Marina Abramović, Imponderabilia, 1977/2023. Live performance by Rowena Gander and Kieram Corrin Mitchell, 60 minutes. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives. © Marina Abramović. Photo © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry

23 September 2023 - 1 January 2024

This major exhibition presents key moments from Abramović’s career through sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Works such as The Artist is Present will be strikingly re-staged through archive footage while others will be reperformed by the next generation of performance artists trained in the Marina Abramović method.

In her early work Rhythm 0, Abramović invited audiences to freely interact with her however they chose – famously resulting in a loaded gun being held to her head. Her later work The House with the Ocean View saw the artist live in a house constructed in a gallery for 12 days. Held in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, the performance invited audiences to witness and share in the simple act of living.

Performances include:

Imponderabilia
Nude with Skeleton
Luminosity
The House with the Ocean View
Performance timings
Photography policy

Performance artists

Alessio Bagiardi, Darcey Ball, Mads Bittmann, Antonio Branco, Tina Afiyan Breiova, Lorea Burge, CARU, Seamus Casey, Marie Close, Jia-Yu Chang-Corti, Valerie Ebuwa, Chiara Marini Ferretti, Agata Flaminika, Jose Funnell, Rowena Gander, Agnes Luck Galpin, Rob Hesp, Bartel Jespers, Benjamin Jordan, Francesca Kamil, Katarzyna Kuzka, Lidia Lidia, Sara Maurizi, Hannah Mason, Duarte Pinho E Melo, Loren McK, Kieram Corrin Mitchell, Mateusz Piekarski, Olia Poliakova, Yuyu Rau , Mahsa Salali, Laura Schuller, Leonardo Sinopoli, Agnieszka Szczotka, Madinah Farhannah Thompson, Jaya Twill, Rosalie Wahlfrid, Kam Wan.