Edgy performance artist Marina Abramovic became a “wellness” entrepreneur after her “Abramovic Institute” plan collapsed, selling $125 “immunity drops” made with raw garlic and chili peppers and white bread. They sold a $250 “cleanser” that included:
Abramovich became world famous in 2010 for staring at people in a blockbuster exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and her career has also included provocative nudity, with some visitors to the show naked had to be sandwiched between a man and a naked woman.
She was also the focus of the bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory that she is involved in a cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles.
But her grand plans to build an arts center named after her in the Hudson Valley fell through, with the Post finding that her foundation had raised just $7 in 2022. I found out.
Instead, she launched a variety of non-FDA-approved “longevity” products with the help of alternative medicine gurus who advocate recipes credited to leeches and Tibetan monks as treatments. .
They “offer a path to optimal health and longevity,” Abramovich said. Claims on her e-commerce site.
Her latest venture, Abramovich Longevity Method, is a pricey skin care and wellness line featuring face lotions, “anti-allergy,” “energy,” and “immunity drops,” and retails for as much as $580. .
On the newly launched e-commerce site with UK prices, Abramovich said: “To help me and others look at ourselves and focus on what matters most: living long and well in the present. I developed the Abramovich method.”
abramović spoke to British Vogue this week. She had no intention of selling out and wanted to share the secret of her appearance, she said. That is “reliability.” ”
Abramovich struck up a deal with Nonna Brenner, who runs the Center of Health and Prophylaxis, an alternative medicine retreat on a lake near Salzburg, Austria.
Brenner says he uses Tibetan medicine, herbs and other holistic approaches (including leeches) to help high-end clients with problems. Also includes Donna Karan Recharge your energy and adopt a healthier lifestyle.
In a video posted on the center's website, Abramovich says that during Brenner's first visit in 2017, she used ancient remedies such as leeches and garlic drops to treat Lyme disease and high blood pressure. claims to have helped. Brenner visits the hospital twice a year.
Health products promoted by the business partners include a $252 cleanser/exfoliant with ingredients like white bread and white wine, while a $125 “immunity drop” is made with fresh lemon, raw garlic, and more. , made from flower pollen.
“Anti-allergy” drops also cost $125 and are made with licorice root. The entire line of drops and lotions is available in a $580 box.
Brenner describes himself as a doctor born in Kazakhstan and trained in Germany.she told the Financial Times She says she got the recipe for the drops and lotion from a Tibetan monk named Dr. Lu Sheng.
The 77-year-old performance artist has been trying to create a museum in the Hudson Valley, announcing in 2007 that she had founded the Marina Abramovic Institute for the Conservation of Performance Arts.
It was to become a global center for bold artistic experimentation based on a 17,000-square-foot campus in Hudson, New York. It will “transform the local economy” of the town, much like the Sundance Film Festival transformed Park City, Utah, and the Guggenheim Museum. We changed Bilbao, Spain.
In 2007, she paid $950,000 for land on Columbia Street in the Hudson near Malden Bridge, a five-bedroom star-shaped country house, and hired Dutch architect Rem Kohlhaus to build a museum, study center, and more. We asked them to design a center and event space.
In 2013, she sold her assets to a nonprofit and began fundraising in earnest, but when she turned to Kickstarter and other avenues to raise the $21 million she needed, her efforts stopped. ended in failure.
Despite help from Jay-Z, she was able to raise only $2.2 million and refused to return the cash when she shelved the project. At the time, a spokeswoman told the Post that the money was being raised to pay for the Cool House, which she said was now being renovated.
Abramovich secretly sold the building in September 2021 to the social welfare nonprofit Galvan Initiative for $800,000 (a loss of $150,000).
And her nonprofit ended 2022 with zero donations and $7 in total revenue, according to the most recent publicly available tax returns.
Meanwhile, Abramovich LLC, the for-profit company that sells her art, received payroll protection from the federal government to help small businesses pay their employees during the 2020 and 2021 COVID-19 pandemic. The program received more than $130,000 in funding.
A spokeswoman for the Abramovich Foundation said it was placing greater emphasis on its work in Europe.
In addition to his 2010 exhibition “The Artist is Present,'' in which he sat motionless for three months and more than 730 hours in the MoMa atrium, Abramovic photographed himself cleaning a skeleton and created a recipe promoting health. He has produced a cookbook including Mix “fresh breast milk and fresh sperm.”
She was also the focus of the false QAnon conspiracy theory that she was part of a group of satanic cannibal pedophiles who preyed on children.
The incident stems from Hillary Clinton's leaked emails, including one in which Abramovich invites the candidate's campaign manager, John Podesta, to a “spirit cooking” dinner she is hosting. It also included things.
she told the Guardian He said it was a reference to an installation in which he wrote poems in pig's blood, adding: They Googled me and I fit right into the conspiracy theory. ”
