Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places

Never before published, this deeply personal and self-curated collection of travel notes and sketches offers an intimate window into the mind of Marina Abramović, one of the most influential performance artists of our time. More than a simple record, it forms a visual and written iconography of her groundbreaking and fearless body of work.

For any artist, notebooks serve as a private laboratory—raw, immediate, and revealing. For a performance artist, they become a rare, lasting trace of a medium defined by its impermanence. Spanning four decades, these pages—scrawled on hotel stationery and gathered from temporary lodgings around the world—capture Abramović’s process in all its spontaneity and intensity. The collection includes original drawings, collages, poems, notes, cut-outs, photographs, and playful doodles, revealing a restless and inventive mind constantly in motion.