Ulay
Birthday: 1943-11-30
Place of Birth: Solingen, Germany
Biography: Ulay, born Frank Uwe Laysiepen, 1943 is a German artist, actor, and photographer, now based in Amsterdam, Holland, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ulay received international recognition for his work as a photographer, mainly in Polaroid, from the late 1960s, and later as a performance artist, including his collaborative performances with Marina Abramovic from 1976 to 1988.
Movies
Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance
“Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body tak...
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The Pink Biennal
Television special of five episodes directed by Alfredo Di Laura dedicated to the exhibition "Attivo...
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Light/Dark
Ulay and Abramović take turns hitting each other in the face, gradually increasing speed and intensi...
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Relation in Time
Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting...
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Incision
Ulay is fixed to a wall by a fixed rubber cord, while Marina stands at the limit of Ulay's expansion...
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Balance Proof
Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies....
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Imponderabilia
"Naked we stand opposite each other in the museum entrance. The public entering the museum has to tu...
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Balkan Baroque
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramo...
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Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End
Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysi...
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Breathing In/Breathing Out
For this performance the two artists blocked their nostrils with cigarette filters and pressed their...
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Relation in Movement
Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the m...
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Talking about Similarity
'Talking about Similarity' took place in Amsterdam, on November 30th, 1976. The performance, which l...
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Expansion in Space
In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each oth...
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Relation in Space
In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale...
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The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink
In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours th...
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AAA-AAA
The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite e...
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The Way Between Two Points
El camino entre dos puntos (The way between two points) investigates Patagonia’s tainted nature. Her...
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How I Stole a Painting
The story of one of the most radical performances in art history told by German artist Ulay, who in ...
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There Is a Criminal Touch to Art
A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arran...
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The story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay
Legendary couple in performance art – Marina Abramović and Ulay – lived together for 12 years and ma...
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Rest Energy
Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at A...
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Ulay
Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina A...
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Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of ...
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Body Art
Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art...
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