Marina Abramović: A Pioneer of Pain and Presence Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) on November 30, 1946, Marina Abramović is a figure whose work has irrevocably altered the landscape of contemporary art. Her journey began within a family steeped in Serbian Orthodox tradition – her great-uncle was Varnava, the Serbian Patriarch – an ancestry that would subtly inform her later explorations of spirituality and the human condition…