Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship, such as pain, solitude or exhaustion. Performances that focus on the passage of long periods of time are also known as durational art or durational performances.
Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present, 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abramović sat silently opposite museum visitors for eight hours a day for three months, a total of 750 hours.
The artist Abel Azcona during The Death of The Artist at Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
Tehching Hsieh spent a year in this cage in his studio in One Year Performance 1978–1979 (Cage Piece).
Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
Marina Abramović – The Cleaner at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy, in September 2018
Marina Abramović and Uwe Laysiepen, 1978
At the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010
Abramović performing Bruce Nauman's Body Pressure, Guggenheim Museum, 2005
