Exhibitions at Gnyp Gallery
Body of Pain Body of Love Body of Wisdom
09 September, 16 – 16 October, 16
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2020
ULAY WAS HERE, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2019
Ulay, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (UK)
2018
Marina Abramović: The Cleaner, Retrospective exhibition of Marina Abramović including Abramović & Ulay’s Relation Works, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (Italy)
Renais Sense, Boers-Li Gallery, New York, (USA)
2017
The Animist, Depart Art Foundation, Los Angeles (USA)
Ulay: I Other, VIVACOM Art Hall, Sofia (Bulgaria)
Ulay: So you see me, Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland Ulay: I Other, City Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2016
Invisible Opponent, MAH | Musées d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva (Switzerland)
Ulay Life-Sized, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Ulay, Come On, MOT International, Brussels (Belgium)
Body of Pain, Body of Love, Body of Wisdom, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
2015
Ulay | Polaroids, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Early Works of Ulay, Acik Ekran Yeni Medya Sanatlari Galerisi, Istanbul (Turkey)
2013
Ulay, MOT International, London (UK)
Ich bin Ich: Ulay on Ulay, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin (Germany)
2012
Whose Water Is It?, Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture, Maribor (Slovenia)
2011
The Great Walk Talk, C-Space, Beijing (China)
2010
Ulay in Patagonia, Outline Foundation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
ULAY– Historical Works, MB Art Agency’s Project Space, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
The Artist is Present, Solo exhibition of Marina Abramović including Abramović & Ulay’s Relation Works, MOMA | The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
2009
Become, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Waterfonie, Willy Brandt Center, Jerusalem
2008
Performing Light: On Photography and Performance, Booze Cooporativa, Athens, Greece
2007
Performing Light, National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow and Yekaterinburg (Russia)
Can’t Beat the Feeling, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2005
GEN-E-T-RATION ULTIMA RATIO, Centro Párraga, Murcia (Spain)
2004
WE Emerge, a project with the support of AoRTa Art Centre, Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Chișinău (Moldavia)
Johnny: The ontological in the Photographic Image, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
2003
WE, AoRTa Art Centre, Chișinău (Moldavia)
2002
The Delusion. An Event about Art and Psychiatry, Vincent van Gogh Psychiatric Institute, Venray (The Netherlands)
2000
What is That Thing Called Photography, Museum Het Domein, Sittard (The Netherlands)
Performing Light: Photographic Works 1970– 2000, an oeuvre presentation as laboratory, works in progress, projects, performances and continuous presence in collaboration with Saskia Bos and Cees de Boer, with 4 guest curators: Thomas McEvily, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Judy Annear, De Appel, Amsterdam Cursives & Radicals, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Ulay/Abramović, Life-size Polaroid photographs 1980–1987, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Nightsea Crossing - The collection, Ulay & Abramović, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (France)
1999
Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Germany)
1998
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA); MAK | Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (Austria); El Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan)
1997
What’s finished isn’t made, Utrechtse School, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Exposure, The Caldic Collection, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Deutschlandbilder, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (Germany)
1996
III Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (France)
1995
Aspekte Niederländischer Kunst Heute, Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid (Germany)
HOME LESS HOME, Caravan Travel Exhibition, 8 places throughout The Netherlands Scanning photography in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)
Indurance, Atheneum Art Museum, Helsinki (Finland)
Male/Female, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (*) Paar pal paar, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich (Switzerland)
1991
The Failure of the Magicians, Wanås Casco Tours, Zeedijk, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1990
It must give pleasure, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY, USA Desk Project, W 139, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
5th Anniversary, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
1989
Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
Art of the Eighties: Poetry in Vision, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (Switzerland)
Das Verhältnis der Geschlechter, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (Germany)
Video-Skulptur: Retrospektiv und aktuell, 1963-89, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany); Kongresshalle, Berlin (Germany); Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (Switzerland)
1988
The Flag Project, 50 artists/50 flags, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (touring exhibition)
Roots + Turns: 20th century photography in the Netherlands, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (USA); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Rijksaankopen 1987: werk van hedendaagse beeldende kunstnaars, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam (The Netherlands)
Documenta 8, Kassel (Germany)
1987
Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (USA)
This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (USA). Travelled to: Akron Art Museum, Akron (USA); The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk (USA)
Blow Up, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (Germany)
Avant-Garde in the 80’s, LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (USA)
Von Chaos und Ordnung der Seele”, Kunst in der Psychatrischen Klinik der Universität Mainz (Germany)
Art from Europe”, the Tate Gallery, London (UK)
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen”, Kunstmuseum, Bern (Germany)
The 100 Days of Contemporary Art of Montreal 1987”, Montreal International Center of Contemporary Art (Canada)
Photo Mannerisms”, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia (USA)
1986
The Real Big Picture, The Queens Museum, New York (USA)
Choices: Making an Art of Everyday Life, The New Museum, New York (USA)
Photographic Clichés, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK; Orchard Gallery, Londonderry (Northern Ireland)
Houston Foto Festival, Houston (USA)
Emerging Artists ‘86, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (USA)
Remembrances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (USA)
Photography as Performance, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (UK)
1985
Image On the Run: Dutch Video Art of the 80’s, The Kitchen, New York (USA)
By the River 3: International Photography Today, The Pori Art Museum, Pori (Finland)
Alles und noch viel mehr: Das poetische ABC, Kunsthalle/Kunstmuseum, Bern (Switzerland)
As far as Amsterdam goes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Grace Borgenicht International, New York (USA); Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
Memento Mori, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (USA)
Zwischen Zeichnung und Video, Museum Wiesbaden (Germany)
6th Annual San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco (USA)
1984
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (USA)
II Manifestation Internationale de Video, Centre d’Action Culturelle, Montbéliard (France)
Im Toten Winkel, Kunstverein/Kunsthaus, Hamburg (Germany)
The Lumious Image”, (Terra degli dea madre, installation), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles (USA)
Symbol Tier, Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck (Austria)
Video: A Retrospective 1974-1984, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach (USA)
14 Internationales Forum des Jungen Films Berlin 1984, Perspektiven, Video and Super 8, Berlin (Germany)
1983
ARS 83, The Art Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki (Finland)
Examples of the Mental and Spiritual Spaces/Works, Galerija Studentski Kulturni Centrar, Belgrade (Serbia)
The Second Link: Viewpoints of Video in the Eighties, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff (Canada);MOMA | The Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1982
Momentbild: Künstlerphotographie, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (Germany)
Videokunst in Deutschland 1963-1982, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)
Contemporary Art from the Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA Documenta 7, Kassel (Germany)
Ile Festival International du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Montreal (Canada)
Vision in Disbelief: The Fourth Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
Live to Air/Artists’ Sound Works, The Tate Gallery, London (UK)
60s – 80s, Attitudes, Concepts, Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1981
VXI Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Instant Fotografie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1980
ROSC ‘80: The Poetry of Vision - An International Exhibition of Modern Art and Chinese Painting, School of Architecture, University College National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (Ireland)
1979
Masculin-Feminin, Trigon ‘79, Steirischer Herbst ‘79 Künstlerhaus/Neue Galerie, Graz (Austria)
European Dialogue, III Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979/Kunst als Photographie 1949-1979, Museum des XX Jahrhunderts, Vienna (Austria)
1978
Internationales Performance Festival, Österreichischer Kunstverein, Vienna (Austria)
European Series One, Brooklyn Museum, New York (USA)
1977
La Performance Oggi, Settimana Internazionale della Performance, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
Documenta 6, Kassel (Germany)
Biennale de Paris, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
Internationale Kunstmesse, Messegelände, Cologne (Germany)