Marina Abramovic 80 Reasons for an exhibition in Venice – Venice – Arte.it

Venezia – Marina Abramović will be eighty years old in 2026 and they are celebrating back to the city that has marked his path from the start. Next year, from 6 May to 19 October, the Galleries of the Academy of Venice They will host Transform energy, The first major exhibition dedicated to a living female artist through the centuries of the history of the museum. The exhibition will be opened in combination with The 61ª Biennale d’Arte In small keysBy placing the Queen of Performance in Dialogue with the Renaissance master works of the permanent collection of the Grote Venetian State Museum.

The project, compiled by Shai Baitel in close collaboration with the artist, will transform the rooms of the museum into a non -published path, where historical works such as such as such as such as such as such as Rhythm 0” Imponnerabilia” Balkan Baroque O Skeleton They will meet new creations that are designed for the Lagoon City. There will be one of the most surprising experiences Transient objectsBeds and stone structures with fixed crystals that will be invited to the public to live with his own body, so that Abramović calls “energy transmission”. The set will reach its peak in the combination between the Sympathy made with turmoil in 1983 and the famous Pietà by TizianoUnfalacily and ended by Palma the Young Man: a 450 -year dialogue about pain and transcendence.

Abramović will not be new in Venice. His first biennial dates from 1976, while in 1997 he Golden lion For Balkan Baroque. The Lagoon City will remain a constant stop in his life, as he recently remembered: “I was 14 years old when I first saw it and I started crying for beauty. Coming back today, with an exhibition in the galleries of the Academy, is a deep honor”.

The exhibition will coincide with a symbolic jubilee for the artist born in Belgrade in 1946, who since the 1970s brought about a revolution in the language of art in the center of the body and resistance. Works such as Rhythm 0, in which he made available to the public 72 objects that are used freely on his body, or the versions made with Ulay – to the legendary walk on the big wall to punish their separation – will be withdrawn as a ground phase of an entire generation. In 2010, with The artist is present all Moma in New YorkAbramović consolidated his global fame and transformed silence and duration into a collective experience that will continue to mark contemporary imagination.

Inserting this research into a museum such as the galleries of the Academy, traditionally initiated with the masters of the Renaissance, means destroying the borders between the old and contemporary. After the appearances of artists such as Baselitz, Kapoor O de KooningIt will be the turn of a woman who has made vulnerability and resistance of her language. The exposure will emphasize the connection between Venetian matter – mosaics, quartz, amethyst – and the metaphysical dimension of the transformation, which invites visitors to a less passive observation, based on the presence and possibility of an inner change.

The agreement will not only take on Venice. After the fall, the exhibition moves to Rome, on the National gallery of modern and contemporary artIn the seal of a career that will continue to question the relationship between body, spirituality and art. In the days of the Biennial 2026, in small tests, “Transforming Energy” will not present itself as a simple retrospective, but as an institutional gesture that museum use, the vulnerability and resistance of the body next to the visions of the Renaissance masters will place.