What is Marina Abramović best known for?

Installed at Cisternerne, a former 19th-century underground water reservoir in Copenhagen, "Seven Deaths" harnesses the space's dramatic acoustics and subterranean atmosphere to heighten the emotional power of the work.

A dark, vaulted underground space is arranged with rows of benches facing a large projection screen showing a close-up of a woman mid-performance, her face contorted in emotion.

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?