The international performance art superstar has two other major presentations in Australia this month.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney has announced that its planned Marina Abramović exhibition, due to open in 2016, has been cancelled “due to a number of external factors.” The announcement comes in the same week as Hobart’s MONA opens its major retrospective of Abramović’s forty year career as a performance artist, Private Archaeology.

Abramović is arguably the world’s most influential and successful performance artist alive today. The highly anticipated exhibition in Tasmania will be opened by Abramović on Friday, and an “in conversation” event between Abramović and MONA founder David Walsh on June 14 has sold out well in advance.

Just 10 days later another major Australian outing for Abramović opens at Walsh Bay’s Pier 2/3 in Sydney. Abramović: In Residence, presented by the Kaldor Public Art Projects, will see the celebrity artist actively curate a new piece of immersive performance art, in which the public will be directed by Abramović “like a conductor.” Describing the piece, Abramović says “My function in this new kind of performance situation is to show you, through the Abramovic Method, what you can do for yourself. I...