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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.
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12 September 2013
Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina Abramovic produced some of the best pieces of performance art.
01 January 1975
Serbian artist Marina Abramovic is lying on her back on the floor and screaming until her voice is lost.
28 July 1980
Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at Abramovic's heart.
01 January 1996
Documents four of Abramovic's solo works, exercises in which her body is the vehicle for a rigorous testing of the self — violently brushing her hair and her face, vocalizing until she can no longer breathe, intoning a stream-of-consciousness flow of memories, moving to a drumbeat until she literally drops from exhaustion.
28 December 2017
The story of one of the most radical performances in art history told by German artist Ulay, who in 1976 decided to steal Hitler's favorite painting from Berlin's national museum and hang it in the home of a Turkish immigrant family.
01 January 1977
Ulay and Abramović take turns hitting each other in the face, gradually increasing speed and intensity with each blow.
13 June 2012
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
01 June 1977
"Naked we stand opposite each other in the museum entrance. The public entering the museum has to turn sideways to move through the limited space between us.
14 November 1999
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic.
01 January 1977
Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies.
31 January 2010
El camino entre dos puntos (The way between two points) investigates Patagonia’s tainted nature. Here, where throughout the 20th century ever enhanced methods of oil recovery, have transformed an amorphous, ambivalent and hardly populated landscape into an uncanny site of man’s supposed mastery of nature, the film traces the ways of a man, who wanders the scenes aimlessly, bound by his own implication in the menacing mechanics of oil production but drawn physically to their coevally proceeding erasure by the rough and untamed nature of this seemingly self-subsisting land.
30 November 1997
'Talking about Similarity' took place in Amsterdam, on November 30th, 1976. The performance, which lasted ca.
01 January 1988
An "unedited video notebook" that documents Marina Abramovic and Ulay's journey to the Great Wall of China in preparation for their final collaborative project.
01 January 1975
‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body.
01 March 1976
Television special of five episodes directed by Alfredo Di Laura dedicated to the exhibition "Attivo.
01 January 1977
In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk towards each other from opposite ends of a room, touching as they pass each other, and then they repeat the movement while their bodies collide and one of them (Marina) falls over under the impact, until they are both exhausted.
06 July 1977
Ulay and Abramovic face each other in a kneeling position, and take turns to slap each other hard in the face.
06 July 2017
Legendary couple in performance art – Marina Abramović and Ulay – lived together for 12 years and made pioneering work as a duo.
01 January 1977
When the speed and the spinning becomes too much for them, they let go and collapse..
03 December 1976
A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the press.
21 February 1977
“Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body ti
08 March 1977
In 'Expansion in Space' (1977, Dokumenta 6, Kassel), Ulay and Abramovic do not collide with each other, as they did in Relation in Space (1976), but with two free-standing pillars twice their individual body weight.
01 January 1983
Combining video, performance art, documentary, and tableau vivant, this short piece set in what appears to be part of the Ayutthaya Ruins in Bangkok, Thailand, begins with a panoramic shot of various Thai folks dressed in traditional garb and sleeping in the grass as a woman narrates.
01 January 1978
The video tape shows the half-length portraits of Abramović and her husband Ulay standing opposite each other, looking at each other and producing a long sound with open mouths.
01 January 1978
Ulay is fixed to a wall by a fixed rubber cord, while Marina stands at the limit of Ulay's expansion.
01 January 1979
The starting point of Kaiserschnitt is a triangular construction. A horse stands in the centre of a large space, tied to a rope.
31 October 1977
Marina Abramovic's performance 'Relation in time', with her long time partner Ulay. "We are sitting back to back, tied together by our hair, without any movement for 16 hours.
05 January 1977
Marina: we even use our car in the performance, in '77, for the Paris Biennale in the front of the museum we made this piece called Relation In Movement, which Ulay is driving the car and I had the megaphone out of the window, and I would say the numbers of the circle as we was passing, because it was just going in a circle, on and on and on.
12 January 1976
Marina Abramović Freeing the Body was performed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, where Abramović began dancing frantically to the sounds of a bongo player.
01 January 1989
In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants.
01 January 1988
China Ring is an "unedited video notebook" that documents the artists' journey to the Great Wall of China in preparation for their final collaborative project.
24 March 2022
Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the first time on camera, for a raw and honest conversation about their life, art and legacy.
30 November 1975
Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art
01 January 1979
Relation Work is a 1979 anthology film that compiles 14 seminal performance art pieces created by Marina Abramović and Ulay between 1976 and 1978.
30 November 1978
Documentation of the 2-hour performance by Marina Abramović and Ulay, performed in 1978 at Harlekin Art in Wiesbaden.
22 June 1977
For this performance the two artists blocked their nostrils with cigarette filters and pressed their mouths together, so that one couldn’t inhale anything else but the exhalation of the other.
