The Artist Is Present Ulay. When abramović opened her eyes to view her next participant and realized it was ulay, she smiled bashfully. When abramović and ulay began their collaboration, the main concepts they explored were the ego and artistic identity.

It’s now 44 days (and counting) since i visited the opening of marina abramović’s major retrospective, ‘the artist is present’, at new york’s museum of modern art. We have both genders present in this situation that emotionally react to the performance; Marron atrium every day the museum was open between march 14 and may 31, 2010.

The morning that ulay visited the moma, he popped in for a visit with abramović after 22 years apart.

In 2010, serbian artist marina abramović had the honor of being the subject of a popular retrospective at new york’s museum of modern art.throughout the show, abramović performed a grueling piece entitled “the artist is present,” sitting in the museum’s atrium and inviting the swelling crowds of viewers to sit directly opposite her, in silent dialogue. In 2010 the pair were reunited in the artist is present, part of abramovic’s moma retrospective, when ulay surprised her by taking part in an extended performance that relied on public participants. The artist is present, the museum of modern art’s first performance retrospective, abramović performed in the donald b. Abramović's former partner ulay joins her during her performance at her career retrospective.