

When she was six, her brother was born, and she began living with her parents while also taking piano, French, and English lessons. Her grandmother was deeply religious and Abramović "spent childhood in a church following grandmother's rituals-candles in the morning, the priest coming for different occasions". Ībramović was raised by her grandparents until she was six years old. After the war, Abramović's parents were awarded Order of the People's Heroes and were given positions in the postwar Yugoslavian government. Both of her Montenegrin-born parents, Danica Rosić and Vojin Abramović, were Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. In an interview, Abramović described her family as having been "Red bourgeoisie." Her great-uncle was Varnava, Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Early life, education and teaching Ībramović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia, on November 30, 1946. In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.

She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art".

Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Marina Abramović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, pronounced born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist.
