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Artist's Name: Ulay
Preferred medium: video / film
birth year: 1943
Nationality: DE
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Ulay (stage name), real name Frank Uwe Laysiepen (born November 30, 1943, Solingen, Germany) is an important performance artist of the late 60s and the 70s. In all his works the central content is the relationship of body, space and society. During his live he traveled to different countries to collaborate with local artists, among others the Netherlands, Central Australia, China, Germany, United States. From 1976 to 1989 he worked together with Marina Abramovic. The performances of this period are the best known of Ulay's work. In 1988, Ulay and Abramovic decided to make a spiritual journey which would end their relationship. Each of them walked the Great Wall of China, starting from the two opposite ends and meeting in the middle. Ulay started from the Gobi Desert and Abramovic from the Yellow Sea. After each of them walked 2500 km, they met in the middle and said "good-bye". Due to his education as a photographer, he documented his performances constantly. One of his favorite media was and still is the Polaroid. After 5 years as a professor for performance and media-art at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (1999-2004) in Germany he moved back to Amsterdam but he still travels through the world. He still works with photography but performed for the last time at Mediamatic's "It's Happening Now" in Amsterdam on May 6, 2007. His actual project WATERTOALL focuses on the Arab world and its water shortage in comparison with the sinking Netherlands. (Wikipedia)

important exhibitions from Ulay

Exhibition Location City Country Date
41. Biennale Venedig 1984 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 10.06.1984
Live to Tape. Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin Berlin DE 01.02.2011
documenta 7 Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky Wien AT 19.06.1982
Site Inspection: The Museum on the Museum Museum Ludwig Köln DE 22.07.2011
RECORD > AGAIN! - 40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2 ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe DE 17.07.2009
RECORD > AGAIN! - 40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2 Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen DE 18.09.2009
GEHEN BLEIBEN Kunstmuseum Bonn Bonn DE 28.11.2007
True Romance Kunsthalle Wien Wien AT 05.10.2007
Play Van Abbe Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven NL 26.02.2011
Gravity Crawford Art Gallery Cork IR 15.07.2011

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Collections representing
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Art Gallery of New South Wales
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum het Domein
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst