Artnet

Before He Died, Ulay Established an International Foundation in His Name. Here’s How It Plans to Promote the Artist’s Complex Legacy

It’s often said that the true dawning of an artist’s legacy begins only after his or her death. But when it comes to Ulay, the celebrated performance artist, photographer, and ex-romantic partner of ...
Artnet

Marina Abramović and Ulay Are Reuniting to Write a Joint Memoir

The greatest duo in the history of performance art, Ulay and Marina Abramović, will reunite to write a book about their 12-year partnership. “There are so many unbelievable anecdotes which most people ...
Salon

Ulay vs. Marina Abramović: How the epic legal battle between art-world giants went down

The legal battle between two of the world’s most famous artists has ended. Frank Uwe Laysiepen, better known as Ulay, has emerged victorious, after a courtroom dispute that lasted nearly a year, ...
W magazine

Marina Abramović and Ulay, Performance Artist Icons, Are Finally Over Their ’80s Breakup on the Great Wall of China

Judging from the past week—and, come to think of it, this entire year—one could hardly be blamed in thinking that love is officially dead. (Anna Faris and Chris Pratt, Amber Heard and Elon Musk, and ...
The New York Times

Ulay, on His Own Terms

The performance artist, who died in March, was eclipsed by his former collaborator and lover, Marina Abramovic. But he also produced powerful work without her, as an exhibition in Amsterdam shows. By ...
Observer

Ulay Remembers the Crime of a Lifetime 40 Years Later

A highly suspicious van pulled up opposite the New National Gallery in Berlin and was left running. Out of it walked a tall, slender man in a graphite-colored raincoat and on into the museum. After ...
The Art Newspaper

Visibly weakened Ulay makes a living photograph

Last night (9 January) a small select audience were treated to a unique performance by Frank Uwe Laysiepen, better known as Ulay, the conceptual artist and former consort of Marina Abramovic, to mark ...
The Guardian

Ulay obituary

Had you been passing the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin at lunchtime on 12 December 1976, you might have seen an athletic young man, pursued by guards, racing out of the building with a painting under ...
Hyperallergic

The Artist Is Pissed: Ulay Sues Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović, the world's only household name performance artist — Shia LaBeouf notwithstanding — is being sued by her former collaborator and lover, the German artist Ulay. Marina Abramović and ...
Observer

Ulay Made Art Out of Everything—Even the Illness That Took His Life

Ulay attends Opening Night Party of “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present.” WILL RAGOZZINO/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Together, Abramović and Ulay pushed boundaries and often shocked ...
The Guardian

Ulay v Marina: how art's power couple went to war

Partners in love and performance art, Ulay and Marina Abramović made passionate, pioneering work together for more than a decade. Now things have turned sour – and he’s taking her to court A bearded ...
The New York Times

Ulay, Boundary-Pushing Performance Artist, Dies at 76

He made his name during a 12-year creative and romantic partnership with Marina Abramovic. By Alex Marshall Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay, in his 1974 work “Mudras.”Credit...Ulay/Richard Saltoun ...