“My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'”

Serbian conceptual and performance artist

Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Active for more than four decades, she is known for work that has helped define performance art. Her art explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Her work has been described as reshaping the language of contemporary performance art.