Selected solo exhibitions

 

2020    

ULAY WAS HERE, Stedelijk, Amsterdam, NL

ULAY: From Berlin to Paris, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK

2019    

ULAY, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK

Marina Abramović: The Cleaner, Retrospective exhibition of Marina Abramović including Abramović’ & Ulay’s joint works, Centre for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland (before on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. Denmark; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy)


 2018   

Renais Sense, Boers-Li Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2017   

The Animist, Depart Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, 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

Ulay: 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

Retouching Bruises, Art Basel: Feature Section, MOT International, Basel, Switzerland   


2013

Ulay, MOT International, London, UK

Ich bin Ich: Ulay on Ulay, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany 

2014

Ulay: Body of Pain, Body of Love, Body of Wisdom, GNYP Gallery Berlin, Germany 


2011   

 The Great Walk Talk, C-Space, Beijing, China

2012    

Whose Water Is It?, Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture, Maribor, Slovenia


2009    

Become, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Waterfonie, Willy Brandt Center, Jerusalem; Goethe Institute, Ramallah, Palestina

 

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, NY, USA (*) 


2007    

Performing Light, National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia
Can't Beat the Feeling, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2008    

Performing Light: On Photography and Performance, with Thomas McEvilley, Booze Cooporativa,    Athens, Greece 


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


2002    

The Delusion. An Event about Art and Psychiatry, Vincent van Gogh Psychiatric Institute, Venray, NL

2003    

WE, AoRTa Art Centre, Chișinău, Moldavia


1999    

Ulay/Abramović Performances, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (*)

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 (*)

Nightsea Crossing - The collection, Ulay & Abramović, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (*)           


1997    

Ulay - Portraits 1970-1993, Galerie Break Point, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Berlin/Photogenes, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
The Luxemburg Portraits, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Ulay in Photography, Galerie Fotomania, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ulay/Abramović, Gallery Okazaki Tomako, Tokyo, Japan (*)

Ulay/Abramovć - 12 Years Performance, 1976-1988, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (*)

1998    

Made in India, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Ulay Photographs 1970-1997, Il Ponte Projects, Rome, Italy 
Ulay/Berlin-Nachbilder, Foto Forum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Ulay - Polaroid Photography, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ulay/Abramović - 12 Years Performance, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland (*)


1995 

Berlin-Mitte, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Berlin-Mitte, Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Berlin-Mitte, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Die Wende, Galerie Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

1996    

Photogene/Berlin Afterimages, Galerie im Marstall/Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany


1992    

Long Playing Record, The Homeless Project, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York

1994    

High & Low & Pro & Contra (The First Act), KulturBrauerei, Berlin, Germany 


1990    

The Lovers, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;    Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark (*)

 

1991    

The Lovers, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (*)
Images of Consciousness, Miller Nordenhake, Cologne, Germany (*) 


1988    

Anima Mundi, Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tübingen, Germany (*)

 

1989   

 L'orchestre de femme, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Lovers, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Museum van Hedendagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium (*)

 


1986    

Modus Vivendi: Tuesday/Saturday, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA; Musee Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (*) 

Nightsea Crossing, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA (*)
Ulay/Marian Abramovic, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA (*)

 

1987    

Die Mond, Der Sonne, Centre d'Art Contemporain-Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland; San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; (*)
Ulay/Marina Abramovic, Michael Klein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (*)


1984    

You See What You Feel/I See, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (*)
Modus Vivendi, ICA, Boston, MA, USA (*)

1985    

Modus Vivendi: Works 1980-1985, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (*)


1978    

Installation One, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (*)
Installation Two, Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden, Germany (*)
On the Way, Audio Arts/Riverside Studio, London, UK (*)

1982    

Luther, Kabinett Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (*)


1973    

A’dam Between, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

1974    

Renais Sense, Auto-Polaroids, Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


1972    

Broom en lyriek, Nicolaas Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Polaroid Portraits, Galerie Lezteburger, Luxembourg 

Metamorphosis of a Canal House, Intervention on the façade of his house in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Selected group exhibitions

 

2019    Ways of Seeing,  Chao Art Center, Bejing, China 
Visions and Visionaries: The Art of Performance, Palazzo Comunale ex-Monte di Pieta, The Festival of Spoleto, Spoleto, Italy

Time Kills: Moving Image from the Julia Stoschek Collection, SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2018    Defense Lines -  Maginot, Bar-Lev And Beyond, Genia Scriber Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Israel

 

2017    Symptoms of Society, ZheJiang Art Museum, Zhejiang Sheng, China

 

2016    L’image Volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 

Cold Front from the Balkans, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now, IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Priere De Toucher – Der Tastsinn Der Kunst, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland 

 

2015    Off-Biennale, Budapest, Hungary 

Back to the Future, Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

 

2014    Artevida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA

It’s Enough!, International Triennial of Contemporary Art, PORTIZMIR3, Austro-Turk Tobacco Warehouse, Izmir, Turkey

  

2013    Glam! The performance of Style, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria 

Only to Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 

Shakers & Movers, VeneKlasen Werner, Berlin, Germany

 

2012    Strangers Everywhere, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria 

Second Modernity, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Faces, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

 

2011    Record Again! - 40 Years Video Art: Part 2, ZKM | Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Waterfonie, Duplex Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia 

Im Schatten der Gewalt, Neue Galerie Dachau, Dachau, Germany

Aboriginal Afterimages, Fotodok, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

 2010   Tales of the Unexpected, Dek 22, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Word for word, without words, City Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 

 

2009    Lifting - Theft in Art, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX, USA; Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada

49th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia 

True Romance, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (*)

Attitude, Fourth International Festival for Video/Short & Experimental Films and Photography, Bitola, Macedonia

 

2007    Koos Breukel - Onder Fotografen, Museum of Photography, The Hague, The Netherlands 

Binnenste Buiten: Foto's uit Amsterdamse collecties en archieven, FOAM | Photography Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gehen/Bleiben: Bewegung, Körper, Ort in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (*)

 

2006    40 Years Video Art in Germany (from 1963 till the presence), Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany; K21 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany; ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany 
Eastern Neighbours, Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

2005    Unlocked #2: Rabo Art Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Marks of Honour, FOAM | Photography Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Power-Plays, Para Site, Hong Kong, China 
Interstate, Nicole Klagbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Onwerkelijke Schoonheid/Unreal Beauty, Breda Photo 2005, Breda's Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
One or Two Things I know about Chișinău, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

 

2004    Secrets of the '90s: A Chice from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Corpus Christi, Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany (*)
Between Fire and Art, Gallery Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia (*)

 

2003    Dertig Jaar Nederlandse Videokunst, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2002    A'dam & Eve: On Sex, Tolerance and Other Dependencies, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, ZKM | Center for Art and Mediatechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Public Affairs: Das Öeffentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland 
Video Acts, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, NY, USA

 

2001    The Body’s Performance, Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

 

2000    Constructie van sloophout/Construction of Wooden Debrises, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The NetherlandsStimula, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsNiet om het Even/Foto Biennale, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

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, Switerland (*)

 

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

1987    Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA (*)
This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA. Travelled to: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA (*)
Blow Up, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (*)
Avant-Garde in the 80's, LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (*)
Von Chaos und Ordnung der Seele", Kunst in der Psychatrischen Klinik der Universität Mainz
Art from Europe", the Tate Gallery, London (*)
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Anderen", Kunstmuseum, Bern (*)The 100 Days of Contemporary Art of Montreal 1987", Montreal International Center of Contemporary Art (*)
Photo Mannerisms", Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (*)

 

 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, TX, USA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (*)
Rijksaankopen 1987; werk van hedendaagse beeldende kunstnaars, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, the Netherlands (*)
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (*)
Photo Mannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA (*)

 

1986    The Real Big Picture, The Queens Museum, New York, NY, USA (*)
Choices: Making an Art of Everyday Life, The New Museum, New York, NY, USA (*)
Photographic Clichés, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK; Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland (*)
Houston Foto Festival, Houston, TX, USA (*)
Emerging Artists '86, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA (*)
Remembrances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 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, NY, 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, NY, USA; Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (*)
Memento Mori, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (*)
Zwischen Zeichnung und Video, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (*)
6th Annual San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA (*)

 

1984    Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, WA, 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 (*)
National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA (*)
Symbol Tier, Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria (*)
Video: A Retrospective 1974-1984, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA, USA (*)
14 Internationales Forum des Jungen Films Berlin 1984, Perspektiven, Video and 
Super 8, Berlin (*)

 

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, NY, 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, NY, 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 (*)

 

1976    Biennale di Venezia, Ambiente/participazione/strutture culturale, Venice Biennale, Italy (*)

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERFORMANCES

 

 

2016    I Other, performance in conjunction with the exhibition at City Gallery (Mestna Galerija), Ljubljana, Slovenia

            Invisible Opponent, performance in conjunction with the exhibition curated by Adelina von Furtstenberg for Art for the World, Musee d’art et Histoire, Genève, Switzerland 

Who Am I-1 and Who Am I - 2 performances realized together with the hypnotist Nikolai Hanf-Dressler, part of the program of the solo exhibition Ulay Life-Sized, curated by Matthias Ulrich, at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany 

Pink Pain, University of South California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 
            Ulay & Jaša: Watermark/Cutting Through the Clouds of Myth, Kustera Projects, New York, NY, USA

Evergreen, Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

2015    A Skeleton in the Closet, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Code of Conduct, 5th Thessaloniki Performance Biennale, Greece 

High & Low & Pro & Contra, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia 

 

2014    Da is eine kriminelle Berührung in der Kunst, Venice International Performance Art Week, Venice, Italy  à this was a film screening and talk, it can be omitted

 

2007    More Pricks than Kicks - G8 Plutocratic Globalization, Mediamatic, Club 11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
A Vulnerable Resistance - A Pro-Squatters Action against the M.E., Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

 

2000    Pandora Open, multi-media performance in collaboration with 13 students from the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Schauburg/bluebox, Karlsruhe, Germany
Performing Light, Performance with Thomas McEvilley and Kent Hodgetts in memorium of James Lee Byars and Eric Orr, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Ulay life-sized, a performative presentation of a life size book with the same title, in collaboration with Willem van Zoetendaal, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Performing Light I, II, 3rd Benten Art Festival, Sakushima, Japan
Flower, a Butho performance in collaboration with Akiko Motofuji. Sakushima, Japan

 

1999    Anniversary Memorial - The Dead of Eric Orr performance with Thomas McEvilley, 1725 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA, USA 

 

1998    The Sacred Heart, two performances with Thomas McEvilley in memoriam of Eric Orr and James Lee Byars, Theatre de Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

 

1997    A Motion Picture, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan 
A short Verbal Piece, with Yutaka Matsuzawa, Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Kawaguchi-City, Japan

 

1996    The Embodiment of the Word, Theatre Academy, Arnhem, The Netherlands 

 

1995    Berlin-Mitte, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden 
Der Begeisterer, Festival a/d Werf, Rudolf Magnus Institut, Utrecht, The Netherlands 

 

1992    The Failure of the Magicians, Wanas, Wanas/Knislinge, Sweden 

 

1991    The Failure of the Magicians, with Eric Orr, James Lee Byars, Thomas McEvilley, University Lund, Lund, Sweden 


1988    The Great Wall Walk, China (a simultaneous 90 day/4200 kilometres walk) (*)

Anima Mundi, Siam Center, Bangkok, Thailand (*)
Positive Zero, theatrical work, Holland Festival, Theatre Carre, Amsterdam; Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht; De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (*)
Modus Vivendi, Progretto Genazzano/Zattera di Babele, Genazzano, Italy, September (*)
Nightsea Crossing, ARS 83, The Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland (*)

 

1987    Nightsea Crossing, Musee Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (*)

Modus Vivendi: Tuesday/Saturday, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (*)
Die Mond, der Sonne, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland; San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA (*)

1986    Modus Vivendi: Tuesday/Saturday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA; Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA, USA (*)
Nightsea Crossing, The New Museum, New York, NY, USA (*)

 

1985    Modus Vivendi, Kunstmuseum Bern/Stadttheater, Bern, Germany; Saskia Theatre, Arnhem, The Netherlands (*)

Nightsea Crossing, Fundaccao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (*)

            Fragilissimo, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

 

1984    Nightsea Crossing - Conjunction, with Watuma Taruru Tjungarrayi and Ngawant Soepa Lueyar, Sonesta Koepelzaal/Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Galerie/Edition Media, Furkapass, Furka, Switzerland; Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Forum, Middleburg, the Netherlands; Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium (*)

 

1983    Anima Mundi, Siam Center, Bangkok, Thailand (*)
Positive Zero, Holland Festival, Carrè Theatre, Amsterdam; Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht; De Doelen, Rotterdam; Stadsschouwburg, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (*)
Modus Vivendi, Progretto Genazzano, Zattera di Babele, Genazzano, Italy (*)
Nightsea Crossing, ARS 83, The Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland (*) 

 

1982    Nightsea Crossing, Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany; A Space/Townhall, Toronto, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kölnischer Kunstverein/Moltkerei, Cologne, Germany; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany; Skulpturenmuseum, Marl, Germany. (*)

 

1981    Gold Found by the Artists, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (*)
No Tango, Sculpture Triennale, Melbourne, Australia (*)
Nightsea Crossing, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (*)
Witnessing, ANZART, the Artcenter, Christchurch, New Zealand (*)
6Wf, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (*)

 

1980    Rest Energy, ROSC, Dublin, Ireland (*)

 

1979    The Brink, 3rd Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (*)
Go-Stop-Back.../1.2.3...., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (*)
Communist Body-Capitalist BodyZoutkeetsgracht 116, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (†) (*)

 

1978    AAA-AAA, RTB, Liege, Belgium (*)
Incision, Galerie H-Humanic, Graz, Austria (*)
Kaiserschnitt, Performance Festival Wien, Vienna, Austria  (*)
Charged Space, European Series One, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA  (*)
Relation/Work, Extract Two, Theater aan de Rijn, Arnhem, The Netherlands  (*)
Relation/Work, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (*)
Relation/Work, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany  (*)
Three, Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden, Germany  (*)

 

1977    Interruption in Space, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany (*)
Breathing In/Breathing Out (first part), Studenski Kulturni Center, Belgrade, Serbia  (*)
Imponderabilia, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (*)
Expansion In Space, Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany (*)
Relation in Movement, 10th Paris Biennale, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France  (*)
Relation in Time, Studio G7, Bologna, Italy  (*)
Light/Dark, Internationale Kunstmesse, Cologne, Germany  (*)
Breathing Out/Breathing In, (second part), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  (*)
Balance Proof, Musee d'Art d'Histoire, Genève, Switzerland  (*)

            FOTOTOT, Gradska Galeria, Zagreb, Croatia

 

1976    Relation in Space, 37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (*)
Talking About Similarity, Singel 64, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (*)

Correspondence to the Situation - There is a Criminal Touch to Art, Berlin, Germany     

            FOTOTOT I, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

FOTOTOT II, Galerie Beyer, Wuppertal, Germany

 

1975    Exchange of Identity, Galerie Het Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

            GEN-E-T-RATION ULTIMA RATIO, tattoo/transplantation, performance