What is Marina Abramović best known for?

"Seven Deaths" draws on her deep personal identification with Maria Callas, whose legendary voice the artist first heard at age 14 on a small radio in her grandmother's kitchen.

Another projection in the same cavernous setting shows a woman’s face with red liquid streaming from her eyes, reflected on the wet floor beneath the screen.

Marina Abramović—unilaterally considered a pioneer of performance art—was still having breakfast in the Austrian Alps when we spoke over Zoom. She was staying there in anticipation of traveling to Venice, where her exhibition “Transforming Energy” (May 6-October 18, 2026) will make her the first living woman to have an exhibition at the Galleria dell’Accademia di Venezia

What is Marina Abramović best known for?