Marina Abramović. Private Archaeology

The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) collaborates with Marina Abramović in a solo exhibition, Private Archaeology, featuring more than 40 seminal works chosen to celebrate her return to Australia after 17 years. While not a retrospective, the exhibition documents a career spanning more than 40 years and explores how Abramović has reduced and refined her work to focus on a central, unifying ideology: what she calls “the art of the immaterial." This involves the use of objects and simple rituals—either by the audience or the artist herself—to transport each participant to consciousness of the present moment. Private Archaeology includes sound pieces, video works, photographs, sculptures and interactive works using the The Abramović Method.

The exhibition is named for Private Archaeology—a series of four cabinets each including objects selected by Abramović because of their importance to her life, including objects dedicated to her Mona experience.

Curated by Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne, Mona’s senior curators.