Fragmentation Museum

Ulay – Moving a Masterpiece

In 1976, Ulay staged a radical performance by removing a painting from Berlin’s National Gallery and relocating it to the home of a Turkish immigrant family. The work challenged the authority of the museum, exposing how art, power, and social exclusion are bound together through systems of value and visibility.

Ulay

Ulay, Irritation – There is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976), film still. Image source: Richard Saltoun.