Mono.Kultur #35 Marina Abramovic

Each issue of mono.kultur is dedicated to one interview with a creative type. The dimensions remain the same every time, but the design and finishing is completely rethought to reflect the issues’s subject.

Issue 35 - Marina Abramovic

It is safe to say that Marina Abramovic is one of the most controversial, provocative and polarising contemporary artists practising today, which is already in itself no mean feat. Personifying performance art like no other artist, Marina Abramovic has been attracting praise and criticism in equal and abundant measure ever since her beginnings in the early 1970s.

In a satisfyingly confrontational and open conversation, Marina Abramovic talked with mono.kultur about the nature of invisible energy, the many criticisms she has been facing and what cosmetic surgery has to do with art.

Graphically, the issue is an exercise in friction and restraint, by setting up the three elements of text, images and subtitles on different grids and letting chance run its course. All works were selected by Marina Abramovic as personal milestones in her career.

Interview by David Levine / Introduction by Anna Saulwick / Artwork by Marina Abramovic / Design by Nirit Binyamini & Gila Kaplan