In 2010, Abramović had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in what is to this day the largest exhibition of performance art ever held at the museum. Over her extensive career, she staged countless performances in the most prestigious museums and stages around the world.
In 2012, Abramović founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
In 2021, only a few months before the beginning of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, Marina created “The Crystal Wall of Crying” at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center to commemorate the Jewish lives lost at the Babyn Yar massacre. A few months later this site was bombed, but the memorial remains in tact.
The University of Haifa is proud to award an honorary doctorate to Marina Abramović, in recognition of her life's work as a daring artist, a role model and a source of inspiration for young artists in general and female artists in particular, and for the powerful emotional experience, she provides the audience through her works, which leads them on a path of unique and consciousness-changing experiences.
In 2023, the Marina Abramović Institute will partner with The University of Haifa to present young long durational performance artists.