Opening "Ulay, Ulay & Abramović"

Fifty years ago, on 12 December 1976, Ulay ‘stole’ Carl Spitzweg’s *The Poor Poet* (1839) from the Neue Nationalgalerie and took the painting to the home of a Turkish so-called ‘guest worker family’ in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Half a century later, the Neue Nationalgalerie revisits this boundary-crossing intervention with the exhibition ‘Ulay, Ulay & Abramović’, returning Ulay’s work to the very place where one of his most significant actions took place.

Programme

7.00 pm Doors open

7.15 pm Welcome and speeches

• Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie
• Alenka Gregorič, Artistic Director of the Cukrarna Gallery
• Lena Pislak, ULAY Foundation

7.30 pm – 9.00 pm Live performance

‘Imponderabilia’ (1977), a groundbreaking performance by Ulay and Marina Abramović. In it, the two artists stand naked, facing each other in a narrow doorway, and invite visitors to walk between their bodies.