‘It’s really important that the public is not just a silent witness’: Marina Abramović on her Venice Biennale exhibition

Marina Abramović is staging “Transforming Energy” at Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, becoming the first living female artist to receive a solo show there and the first to have her work installed within both the permanent-collection galleries and temporary exhibition spaces. Abramović, who won the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Best Artist in 1997 for “Balkan Baroque,” includes a juxtaposition of her 1983 photograph “Pietá (with Ulay)”—featuring her then partner Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen)—with Titian’s unfinished “Pietà” (1575–76). The exhibition features interactive “transitory objects,” such as stone beds and crystal-embedded structures, and time-based works including a row of metronomes that each take 14 seconds per movement; visitors are invited to participate physically, and telephones are not permitted inside.

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