Oleg Borisovich Kulik

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Oleg Kulik (2009)

Oleg Borissowitsch Kulik ( Russian Оле́г Бори́сович Кули́к ; born April 15, 1961 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian action artist.

biography

Kulik graduated from an art school and studied geology . After completing his studies, he took part in geological expeditions to Kamchatka and the Tyumen Oblast , at times he lived in a village in the Tver Oblast . From 1984 to 1986 he did his military service, then he married and moved to Moscow .

After the end of the Soviet Union , he initially looked after the Moscow Regina gallery as curator. In 1994 Kulik and Alexander Brener organized a performance in front of the Moscow gallery of Marat Gelman , in which he appeared as a yapping dog, and he repeated the same action in April 1995 in front of the Kunsthalle Zürich , in Stockholm and in New York .

Kulik's actions, in which he often appeared naked, as well as his pictures and photographs, in which he sometimes reenacted sex with animals, often provoked the public. In 2008, some of his paintings were confiscated by the police at the Foire internationale d'art contemporain in Paris . In 2009, Kulik staged the Vespers of Mary and the oratorio Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris .

The artist collective Woina formed in Kulik's workshop: “They stand in the tradition of the ' Fools in Christ '”, whose madness has been respected in Russia since the Middle Ages.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz Gathmann: Outrage Guaranteed - The Russian Art Guerilla . Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. December 17, 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kulik, Oleg Borisovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кулик, Олег Борисович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian action artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian SSR