Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)

Contacts for the work of Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)

Solo exhibitions

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  ULAY

  Charim Galerie, Wien (AT)
  15 Oct 2025 – 19 Dec 2025

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  The Turbulent Body

  SPURS Gallery, Beijing (CN)
  30 Aug 2025 – 12 Oct 2025

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  The Great Journey

  SPURS Gallery, Beijing (CN)
  4 Sep 2022 – 30 Oct 2022

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  ULAY WAS HERE

  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
  21 Nov 2020 – 18 Apr 2021

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  ULAY

  Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
  11 Jan 2019 – 23 Feb 2019

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  Ulay: Renais sense

  Boers-Li Gallery, New York (US)
  4 May 2018 – 23 Jun 2018

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  Ulay: So you see me

  Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee (GB)
  27 Oct 2017 – 16 Dec 2017

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  Retrospective

  City Art Gallery, Ljublijana (SI)
  1 Dec 2016 – 8 Feb 2017

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  ULAY LIFE-SIZED

  SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
  13 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

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  Ulay

  MOT INTERNATIONAL, Brussels (BE)
  13 May 2016 – 16 Jul 2016

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  Polaroids

  Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
  23 Jan 2016 – 1 May 2016

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  MOT INTERNATIONAL, London (GB)
  16 Oct 2013 – 30 Nov 2013

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  Ich bin Ich: Ulay on Ulay

  Miettinen Collection , Berlin (DE)
  7 Sep 2013 – 6 Oct 2013

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  Das Ontologische im fotografischen Bild

  Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg (LU)
  8 Jul 2004 – 29 Jul 2004

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  New photo works

  Art Affairs, Amsterdam (NL)
  20 Mar 2004 – 5 May 2004

Group

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  Ulay, Ulay & Abramović

  Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
  28 Nov 2026 – 2 May 2027

  with Marina Abramovic

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  Longing for Trust

  Über das Vertrauen in der Kunst

  Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop (DE)
  8 Nov 2026 – 7 Mar 2027

  with Marina Abramovic, Thomas Demand, Gauri Gill, Koizumi Meiro, LEE Mingwei, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Julia Scher, Shimabuku, Andreas Siekmann

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  Body Matters

  Körperlichkeit in der Videokunst der 1970er Jahre

  Ludwig Forum, Aachen (DE)
  17 Mar 2026 – 15 Nov 2026

  with Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Rons Hays, Joan Jonas, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Jacques Louis Nyst, Ulrike Rosenbach

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  Power

  Film series

  PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)
  19 Feb 2026 – 13 Apr 2026

  with Erkan Oezgen, Marina Abramovic, Karimah Ashadu, Dara Birnbaum, Jen Denike, Korpys / Loeffler, Seyed Farian Sabahi, Rosemarie Trockel

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  Inside the Frame: Twenty Years in Focus

  SPURS Gallery, Beijing (CN)
  13 Dec 2025 – 1 Mar 2026

  with Qiu Anxiong, XING Danwen, ZHANG Peili, Huang Rui, CHEN Shaoxiong, ZHANG Wei, LIN Yilin

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  Polaroids

  Newton Foundation, Berlin (DE)
  7 Mar 2025 – 17 Aug 2025

  with Thorsten Brinkmann, Lucien Clergue, Barbara Crane, Alma Davenport, Judith Eglington, Sandi Fellman, Toto Frima, Maurizio Galimberti, Luigi Ghirri, Erich Hartmann, Charles Johnstone, Sally Mann …

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  the uncontrolled aspect of rushing into position

  Sophie Tappeiner, Wien (AT)
  8 May 2024 – 6 Jul 2024

  with Sophie Thun

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  Von hier aus

  Eine Bestandsaufnahme

  Kunststiftung DZ BANK, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
  15 Feb 2024 – 15 Jun 2024

  with Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Miriam Boehm, Viktoria Binschtok, Katarína Dubovská, Christiane Feser, Beate Guetschow, Philipp Goldbach, Gottfried Jaeger, Isabelle Le Minh, Conrad Mueller, Peter Miller (*1978), Johannes Raimann …

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  Incarnations

  Le corps dans la collection du macLYON

  macLYON, Lyon (FR)
  22 Sep 2023 – 7 Jan 2024

  with Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ed Atkins, George Maciunas, Bruce Nauman, Orlan, Marilou Poncin

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  On Hannah Arendt: Truth and Politics

  Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
  1 Dec 2021 – 5 Feb 2022

  with Allan Sekula

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  Performances 1976-1988

  macLYON, Lyon (FR)
  15 Sep 2021 – 2 Jan 2022

  with Marina Abramovic

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  Walking Through Walls

  Durch Mauern gehen

  Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
  12 Sep 2019 – 12 Jan 2020

  with Marina Abramovic, Sibylle Bergemann, Jose Davila, Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, Anri Sala, Regina Silveira, Javier Tellez

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  La Vérité Déguisée (The Truth in Disguise).

  GESTE Paris, Paris (FR)
  5 Nov 2019 – 30 Nov 2019

  with Marina Abramovic, Laia Abril, Sebastiaan Bremer, Nicole Cohen, Joan Fontcuberta, Andreas Gursky, Idris Khan, Tom Lovelace, John Stezaker, Christer Stroemholm, Yuken Teruya

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  Quel Amour!?

  Museum CCB, Lisboa (PT)
  11 Oct 2018 – 17 Feb 2019

  with Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Pilar Albarracin, Helena Almeida, Sophie Calle, Antoine d'Agata, Jeremy Deller, Nan Goldin, Todd Hido, Annette Messager, Duane Michals, Shirin Neshat …

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  ENTRE NOUS…

  Soizic Audouard et Catherine Thieck ouvrent leurs tiroirs de photographies

  Galerie de France, Paris (FR)
  6 Nov 2018 – 1 Dec 2018

  with Hans Bellmer, Wallace Berman, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Brassai, William S. Burroughs, Claude Cahun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Patrick Faigenbaum, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Heinrich Hauser, Florence Henri, Frank Horvat …

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  DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics

  Hayward Gallery, London (GB)
  22 Aug 2018 – 14 Oct 2018

  with Eleanor Antin, Oreet Ashery, Renate Bertlmann, Luciano Castelli, Adam Christensen, Jimmy Desana, Valie Export, Samuel Fosso, Lynn Hershman, Ann Hirsch, Birgit Juergenssen, Michel Journiac …

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  Resident Alien

  The Marin Karmitz Collection

  La Maison Rouge, Paris (FR)
  15 Oct 2017 – 21 Jan 2018

  with Michael Ackerman, Dieter Appelt, Richard Avedon, GAO Bo, Christian Boltanski, Constantin Brancusi, Bill Brandt, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Antoine d'Agata, Patrick Faigenbaum, Robert Frank, David Goldblatt …

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  Symptoms of Society

  Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (CN)
  27 May 2017 – 8 Jul 2017

  with Marina Abramovic, Maja Bajevic, Jasmina Cibic, Braco Dimitrijevic, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Adrian Paci, Anri Sala

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  1975 - 1983

  Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin (DE)
  30 Apr 2016 – 11 Jun 2016

  with Marina Abramovic

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  Dicht op de huid (Close to the Skin)

  from a gift from Willem van Zoetendaal

  Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL)
  11 Apr 2015 – 30 Aug 2015

  with Arno Nollen, Hein-Kuhn Oh, Harold Strak, Celine van Balen

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  Close to Action

  Performance Documentary 1961 - 1985

  Galerie Angermeier, Winden bei Haag (DE)
  16 Aug 2014 – 4 Oct 2014

  with Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni, Peter Weibel

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  Biblioteca Luis Ángel , Bogotá (CO)
  13 Mar 2014 – 17 May 2014

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  Academy of Fine Arts, East Sarajevo (BA)
  27 Nov 2013 – 27 Dec 2013

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40 años de videoarte alemán – Parte II

  Museo de Arte Contemporá, Salta (AR)
  6 Aug 2013 – 29 Sep 2013

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Conceptual Photography

  Art Affairs, Amsterdam (NL)
  12 Apr 2013 – 22 Jun 2013

  with Laurence Aegerter, Dieter Appelt, John Baldessari, John Coplans, John Hilliard, Katrin Korfmann

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  Record > Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de

  Salt Beyoglu, Istanbul (TR)
  8 May 2012 – 16 May 2012

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Gerd Conradt, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen, Edmund Kuppel, Urs Luethi, Marcello Mercado …

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  Record Again!

  40 años de video arte alemán

  Museo de Arte Raúl , Guadalajara (MX)
  1 Jan 2012 – 5 Feb 2012

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2

  Goethe Institute Taipei, Taipei (CN)
  26 Nov 2011 – 17 Dec 2011

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Der weibliche Blick

  Part 1

  FOTO-RAUM, Wien (AT)
  7 Sep 2011 – 20 Oct 2011

  with Marina Abramovic, Valie Export, Nan Goldin, Michael Janiszewski, Anna Jermolaewa, Elke Krystufek, Inés Lombardi, Tony Oursler, Eva Schlegel, Esther Stocker, Jutta Strohmaier, Heimo Zobernig

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  Polaroid (Im)possible

  The WestLicht Collection

  WestLicht, Wien (AT)
  17 Jun 2011 – 21 Aug 2011

  with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Edouard Boubat, Paul Caponigro, Lucien Clergue, Charles Eames, Walker Evans, Toto Firma, Franco Fontana, Joan Fontcuberta, Gisele Freund …

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  National Art Museum of , Kiev (UA)
  11 Jun 2011 – 7 Aug 2011

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2

  Goethe-Institut Moskau, Moscow (RU)
  13 Jun 2011 – 24 Jul 2011

  with Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2

  Centre d´art Le Lait, Albi (FR)
  19 Mar 2011 – 29 May 2011

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  Ullens Center Contemporary Art, Beijing (CN)
  7 May 2011

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2

  Školská 28 Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  12 Apr 2011 – 30 Apr 2011

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2

  Goethe Institute Bulgaria, Sofia (BG)
  6 Dec 2010 – 4 Jan 2011

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record it Again

  40JAHREVIDEOKUNST.DE - TEIL 2

  Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (DE)
  27 Feb 2010 – 16 May 2010

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Joerg Herold, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover …

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (DE)
  27 Feb 2010 – 25 Apr 2010

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 2

  Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden (DE)
  29 Nov 2009 – 14 Feb 2010

  with John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Chris Burden, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Douglas Davis, Flatz, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon …

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  Ludwig Forum, Aachen (DE)
  19 Sep 2009 – 15 Nov 2009

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Record Again!

  40yearsvideoart.de

  ZKM | Zentrum Kunst Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
  17 Jul 2009 – 6 Sep 2009

  with Joseph Beuys, Michael Bielicky, Gábor Bódy, Egon Bunne, Gerd Conradt, Lutz Dammbeck, Flatz, Douglas Gordon, Hámos Gusztáv, Rudolf Herz, Nan Hoover, Wolf Kahlen …

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  Into Me/Out of Me

  KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)
  26 Nov 2006 – 4 Mar 2007

  with Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Kenneth Anger, Janine Antoni, Nobuyoshi Araki, Knut Asdam, Matthew Barney, John Bock, Guenter Brus, Jeff Burton, Patty Chang, Larry Clark …

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  Into Me/Out of Me

  MoMA PS1, New York (US)
  25 Jun 2006 – 4 Sep 2006

  with Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Kenneth Anger, Janine Antoni, Nobuyoshi Araki, Knut Asdam, Matthew Barney, Lynda Benglis, Nayland Blake, John Bock, Stan Brakhage, Guenter Brus …

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  <a href="http://www.marksofhonour.com" target="_blank">Marks of Honour</a> - A striking Library

  Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam (NL)
  18 May 2005 – 21 May 2005

  with Morten Andersen, Paul Andriesse, Sara Blokland, Andy Bosma, Machiel Botman , Tudor Bratu, Koos Breukel, Olivier Cablat, Serge Clement, Eli Content, Nicolas Descottes, Leo Divendal …

Events

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  Paris Photo 2026 - Voices sector

  Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
  12 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026

  with Sandra Brewster, Alessandro Calabrese, Louzla Darabi, Stefano Graziani, Guido Guidi, Lebohang Kganye, Dionne Lee, Annette Lemieux, Spandita Malik, Dimakatso Mathopa, Park McArthur, Domingo Milella …

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  OstLicht Photo Auction Spring 2026

  OstLicht, Wien (AT)
  23 May 2026 – 27 May 2026

  with Marina Abramovic, Bryan Adams, Ansel Adams, Paul Almasy, Anonymous, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Roger Ballen, Ernst Baumann, Peter Beard, Lukas Beck, Ian Berry …

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  viennacontemporary 2025

  Austria's Leading International Fair for Contemporary Art

  viennacontemporary, Wien (AT)
  11 Sep 2025 – 14 Sep 2025

  with Renate Bertlmann, Małgorzata Dawidek, Valie Export, Sandi Fellman, Franco Fontana, Luigi Ghirri, Dorit Margreiter, Mary Ellen Mark, Lucija Rosc, Sergio Scabar, Hannah Schemel, Annegret Soltau …

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  Frieze Art Fair | Seoul 2025

  Frieze art fair, Seoul (KR)
  4 Sep 2025 – 6 Sep 2025

  with Hideo Anze, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jae-Eun Choi, Eun Chun, Chun Heeseung, Godfried Donkor, Charles Gaines, Luigi Ghirri, Youngsoo Han, Alfredo Jaar, Prapat Jiwarangsan …

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  ART COLOGNE 2024

  Art Cologne, Köln (DE)
  7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

  with Francis Alys, Yael Bartana, Hubert Becker, Daniel Canogar, Isaac Chong Wai, Louisa Clement, Clement Cogitore, Elger Esser, Valie Export, Daniela Friebel, Andreas Gefeller, Candida Hoefer …

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  Artissima 2022

  ARTissima, Torino (IT)
  4 Nov 2022 – 6 Nov 2022

  with Michele Abeles, Marina Abramovic, Heba Y. Amin, Eleanor Antin, Per Barclay, Fabio Barile, Silva Bingaz, Primoz Bizjak, Carmen Calvo, Isaac Chong Wai, Chto Delat International, Mario Cresci …

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  artgenève 2022

  artgeneve, Genève (CH)
  3 Mar 2022 – 6 Mar 2022

  with Vito Acconci, Carlos Aires, Miles Aldridge, Brook Andrew, Valerie Belin, Abdelkader Benchamma, Werner Bischof, Matt Black, Daniel Blaufuks, Guillaume Bresson, Rene Burri, Lisetta Carmi …

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  Contemporary Art + Photography

  Lempertz, Köln (DE)
  29 Nov 2019 – 30 Nov 2019

  with Marina Abramovic, Guenther Foerg, Roland Fischer, Dan Graham, In Sook Kim, Juergen Klauke, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans

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  Paris Photo 2019

  Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
  7 Nov 2019 – 10 Nov 2019

  with Berenice Abbott, Oliver Abraham, Marina Abramovic, Ansel Adams, David Adika, Jun Ahn, Albarran Cabrera, Pilar Albarracin, Laure Albin-Guillot, Helena Almeida, Darren Almond, Malala Andrialavidrazana …

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  Miart 2019

  Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
  5 Apr 2019 – 7 Apr 2019

  with Marina Abramovic, Filippo Armellin, Vanessa Beecroft, Simone Bergantini, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Nan Goldin, Birgit Juergenssen, Mimmo Jodice, Juergen Klauke, Tina Lechner, Armin Linke, Ottonella Mocellin …

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  Photo Macau | Art Fair

  Photo Macau, Macau (CN)
  25 Mar 2018 – 28 Mar 2018

  with Marina Abramovic, Horst P. Horst, Zhenchen Liu, Jeffrey Shaw, Tamas Waliczky

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  Miart 2017

  Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
  31 Mar 2017 – 2 Apr 2017

  with Marina Abramovic, Helena Almeida, Richard Billingham, Dara Birnbaum, Rae di Martino, Valie Export, Regina Jose Galindo, Luigi Ghirri, Dennis Oppenheim, Franco Vaccari, Tobias Zielony

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  Ulay and Henriette Huldisch, curator at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof

  Miettinen Collection , Berlin (DE)

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  Ulay in der Frankfurter Schirn

  ARTE - Metropolis

  arte TV (DE)

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  Ulay and Darren Pih, curator at Tate Liverpool, UK

  Miettinen Collection , Berlin (DE)

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  There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (The Poor Poet)

  Kunst Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (DE)