Performance art
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Performance art is an artwork or art installation in the art world where the artist is present in the work. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and i
Conceptual work by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960. Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void)
Helen Moller dance performance. Photo by Arnold Genthe, early 20th century.
Revived Cabaret Voltaire on the Spiegelgasse street 1 in Zürich, 2011
Original poster of the first function of the Cabaret Voltaire, by Marcel Słodki (1916)
Marina Abramović
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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 possibi
Performance art
…artist John Perreault credits Marjorie Strider with the invention of the term in 1969. The main pioneers of performance art include Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, Chris Burden, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Tehching Hsieh, Yves Klein and Vito Acconci. Some of the main exponents more…
Abramović at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival
Marina Abramović and Uwe Laysiepen, 1978
Abramović at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010
Abramović performing Bruce Nauman's Body Pressure, Guggenheim Museum, 2005