# Marina Abramovic artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/marina-abramovic/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:39:22.875Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1946-11-30
- Nationality: Serbian
- Movements: Performance art, Conceptual art
- Common media: Performance, Body art, Endurance art

## Portrait

![Marina Abramovic](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87._The_Cleaner_%2845524492341%29.jpg/1280px-Marina_Abramovi%C4%87._The_Cleaner_%2845524492341%29.jpg)
Francesco Pierantoni from Bologna, Italy · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marina_Abramovi%C4%87._The_Cleaner_(45524492341).jpg

## About Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic, born in Belgrade in 1946, is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist whose practice centers on the body, duration, endurance, and the encounter between performer and audience. Public authority records establish a durable identity for the artist, while the collected descriptions emphasize investigations of physical limits and mental possibility. Performance art is therefore the clearest context for understanding her work, with body art and endurance art representing closely related approaches. Collectors may encounter her name in auction records associated with a performance-based practice, but the collected source pack does not establish which physical formats, editions, projects, or series dominate those sales. For appraisal purposes, an item should first be connected to the correct Marina Abramovic identity and then examined for its specific relationship to a documented work or performance. An artist-name match alone cannot establish authorship, authorization, authenticity, or value.

## Common works and media

The collected sources firmly associate Abramovic with performance, body art, and endurance art, particularly work examining performer-audience relationships and physical or mental limits. They do not establish which saleable formats—such as photographs, recordings, editions, documents, or other objects—are most common in her auction market. Each encountered item should therefore be classified from its own cataloguing and documentation rather than assigned a medium from the artist's reputation alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public artist page indicates an auction-record footprint for Marina Abramovic, but the collected source pack contains no lot-level descriptions, realized prices, edition data, provenance histories, or condition reports. It therefore supports only a cautious association with performance-related and conceptual art, not conclusions about prices or market direction. Any appraisal should establish exactly what the item is and how it relates to the artist's documented performance practice before consulting comparable public sales. Relevant comparisons should come from records with sufficiently similar work types and reliable cataloguing. The present evidence does not support a forecast, scarcity claim, or broad trend statement.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this profile, identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47496
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115967
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87
- Marina Abramovic: http://www.marinaabramovic.com/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/marina-abramovic/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marina_Abramovi%C4%87._The_Cleaner_(45524492341).jpg