Marina Abramović`s major European retrospective opens at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn
(Artdaily.org)

Radical, controversial and highly respected, Marina Abramović is famous for her ground-breaking performances in which she continues to probe, challenge and transcend her own physical and psychological limits. Personal experience and responsibility are key to the artist’s striking work, which deals with memory, pain, loss, trust and endurance. Equally central are time, the experience of its passing and the way she uses her own body. The Abramović Method of concentrating and mobilizing one’s own strength to achieve maximum tolerance and openness of dialogue is practiced in workshops all over the world. The artist addresses fundamental existential questions that affect and touch the viewer with great immediacy. True to her conviction, `A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room,` she questions hierarchies and focuses on individual and collective experience. The artist’s major European