Women in the Arts 2015
Channel: Brooklyn Museum
Date: 2015-11-07

The Brooklyn Museum honors Marina Abramović with the 2015 Women in the Arts Award. The annual Women in the Arts award is presented for outstanding achievement by a leading member of the arts community. Inaugurated in 2002, this award has been presented to women who have made significant contributions in the arts. 

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade in the early 1970s, Abramović has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form's most important early works. The body has always been both her subject and her medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in quest of emotional and spiritual transformation.

This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on November 5th, 2015.