abramovicinstitute for Issue 203, Foragers “As Balkans, we have such extremes. On one side is so much love and passion. The other side is cruelty and vulgarity and heaviness. And it’s just drama all the time. Take the old Slavic souls. You know, the Slavic people are never happy when they’re in their country. They’re also never happy when they’re outside of the country. What is actually wrong with us? It’s always a kind of loneliness and kind of soul-search you never actually find. I mean, you see it from Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, you know, Kafka—all of them, they have this sadness. There’s an emptiness you can feel despite riches all around at times,” says Marina Abramović, who showed expansive performance piece ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’ last fall and will present ‘Balkan Erotic Epic: The Exhibition’ at gropiusbau in Berlin this spring. Read the full story on flaunt.com! Featured: Marina Abramović. Balkan Erotic Epic (2025). All images photographed by juergentellerstudio with creat...