Image © David Stjernholm
Selected Press:
Designboom
we watched marina abramović die seven times in a shadowy cisterne beneath copenhagen
By Kat Barandy, October 2, 2026
Observer
Marina Abramovic Brings Psychodrama to Copenhagen’s Cisternerne
By Sarah Moroz, April 30, 2026
AnOther
Marina Abramović’s Cinematic New Exhibition Explores Love and Loss
By Rose Dodd, March 25, 2026
To learn more about Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths, please visit frederiksbergmuseerne.dk
Image © David Stjernholm
Seven Deaths is a cinematic opera installation in which the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramović stages death through seven of the most iconic female roles in opera history.
Set to seven arias sung by the legendary opera diva Maria Callas, the work unfolds as a visually sumptuous and lavishly imagined filmic universe. Abramović herself assumes the female lead, appearing opposite Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe. The result is a fascinating and deeply immersive narrative of love and loss, life and death, longing and suffering. Seven Deaths is a raw and powerful exploration of the fundamental conditions of human existence – identity, destiny, and the great universal emotions that bind them.
At Cisternerne, audiences experience the seven films as a continuous sequence with a total running time of approximately one hour. This marks the first time the work has been unfolded fully in time and space, in a staging created specifically for Cisternerne’s dark, subterranean chambers.