Ulay

Ulay ( born November 30, 1943 in Solingen ), actually Frank Uwe Laysiepen, is an important representative of performance art in the 1970s in Germany. Particularly well known are his body-related performances with Marina Abramović. He attended the Cologne factory schools and lived and worked among others in Australia and China, today in Amsterdam. Decisive in all his works is the relationships between body, space, and society.

Ulay took in 1982 at the Documenta 7 and 1987 at the Documenta 8 in part. From 1999 to 2004 Ulay was a professor of performance at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.

Public collections

Australia

  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW

Germany

  • Kunstpalais Erlangen
  • Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Christian- Albrechts- University, Kiel
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Finland

  • Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

France

  • Musée d' Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon

Netherlands

  • Netherlands Media Art Institute - Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
  • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • Museum het Domein, Sittard

Sweden

  • The Wana's foundation, Knislinge

Spain

  • ARTIUM Centro -Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria -Gasteiz

USA

  • The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

Prizes and awards

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Name Authority File
790693
de