BELGRADE, March 22 — Like many artists around the world, Marina Abramović is showing her support for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion. Now, the Serbian artist is taking this a step further by re-staging one of her most famous performances, “The Artist is Present.” Some art lovers will be able to take part by bidding online until March 25.needed to stage “The Artist is Present” at MoMA in New York in 2010.
For nearly three months, eight hours a day, Marina Abramović met the gaze of more than 1,500 strangers—a level of success that she did not expect. “Nobody could imagine ... that anybody would take the time to sit and just engage in mutual gaze with me,” she said following the performance. Marina Abramović will now stage the performance again on April 16 at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, which is currently holding an entire exhibition dedicated to her. Art lovers can bid in an auction to win the opportunity to be photographed by Marco Anelli during this performance. He previously shot portraits of all the people who participated in the first performance of “The Artist is Present” at MoMA.