Ulay
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.082 |
| Birthday | 1943-11-30 |
| Place of Birth | Solingen, Germany |
| Also Known As | Frank Uwe Laysiepen, |
1999
Balkan Baroque
5.5/5
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the...
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Balkan Baroque
1989
The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink
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In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In...
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The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink
1978
AAA-AAA
5.6/11
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 l...
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AAA-AAA
2010
The Way Between Two Points
5/1
El camino entre dos puntos (The way between two points) investigates Patagonia’s tainted nature. Here, where throughout the 20th century ever enhanced...
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The Way Between Two Points
2017
How I Stole a Painting
6/1
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 f...
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How I Stole a Painting
1976
There Is a Criminal Touch to Art
6/1
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 P...
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There Is a Criminal Touch to Art
2017
The story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay
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Legendary couple in performance art – Marina Abramović and Ulay – lived together for 12 years and made pioneering work as a duo. In this extraordinary...
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The story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay
1980
Rest Energy
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Ulay and Abramovic draw a large bow and arrow, one holding each side. The arrowhead is pointing at Abramovic's heart. The slightest movement could be...
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Rest Energy
2013
Ulay
7.4/4
Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina Abramovic produced some of the best pieces of perfo...
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Ulay
2012
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
7.4/127
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
1977
Light/Dark
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Ulay and Abramović take turns hitting each other in the face, gradually increasing speed and intensity with each blow. This performance is best known...
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Light/Dark
1977
Relation in Time
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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...
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Relation in Time
2022
Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End
5/2
Thirty years after their separation, performance artists Marina Abramović and Frank Uwe 'Ulay' Laysiepen (1943-2020) agree to meet, for the first time...
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Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End
1977
Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance
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“Before the eyes of all, at least of those present, the naked and direct exhibitions of the body take place with all its extensions; but the naked eye...
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Documentazione Della Settimana Internazionale Della Performance
1976
The Pink Biennal
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Television special of five episodes directed by Alfredo Di Laura dedicated to the exhibition "Attivo. Performance e Dibattiti" curated by Tommaso Trin...
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The Pink Biennal
1977
Imponderabilia
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"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 betw...
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Imponderabilia
1977
Balance Proof
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Ulay and Abramović are standing holding a double-sided mirror between their bodies.
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Balance Proof
1978
Incision
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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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Incision
1977
Breathing in/breathing out
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For this performance the two artists blocked their nostrils with cigarette filters and pressed their mouths together, so that one couldn’t inhale anyt...
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Breathing in/breathing out
1997
Talking about Similarity
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'Talking about Similarity' took place in Amsterdam, on November 30th, 1976. The performance, which lasted ca. 45 minutes, contains two parts that are...
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Talking about Similarity
1977
Relation in Movement
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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 Moveme...
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Relation in Movement
1977
Expansion in Space
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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 w...
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Expansion in Space
1977
Relation in Space
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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 towar...
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Relation in Space
1978
Three
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The performance 'Three' took place on November 30th, 1978, at Harlekin Art in Wiesbaden, Germany. The third participant, which is implied by title of...
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