Gropius Bau

Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition

A single person stands in a meadow beneath a vast, dramatically overcast sky. The person is wearing a multi-layered, traditional-looking outfit consisting of a long, dark skirt and layers of light-coloured fabric. Their arms are bent and held in front of their torso.

Marina Abramović, Women Massaging Breasts II from the series Balkan Erotic Epic, C-Print, 2005, Serbia

© Marina Abramović. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

One of the most influential performance artists of all time, Marina Abramović presents “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau” in spring 2026. The show traces her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death and the body as a site of political resistance. Drawing on the folklore of Abramović’s native Balkans, the exhibition weaves together filmic and sculptural installations with live performance to explore eroticism as an offering that binds life and death, the self and the cosmos.

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