Marina Abramović's The Cleaner Opens in Belgrade After 45 Years

Marina Abramović returns to her birthplace Belgrade for the exhibition The Cleaner at the Museum of Contemporary Art, running from September 21, 2019 to January 20, 2020. This is the final stop of a European tour that included the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and CoCA in Toruń, Poland. The retrospective features over 100 works from the 1970s to the 2000s, including video, photography, paintings, objects, installations, and live reenactments of her most famous performances by a specially trained group of performers. Abramović last exhibited in Belgrade 45 years ago, in 1975, the same year she left Serbia for Amsterdam. In a letter published in the Serbian weekly Nedeljnik, she invited the public to share their energy and emphasized the importance of taking risks and dreaming big, especially for younger generations.