# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ulay
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:11:40.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ulay"
name: "Ulay"
slug: "ulay"
description: "Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known professionally as Ulay, was a German artist based in Amsterdam and Ljubljana, who received international recognition for his Polaroid art and collaborative performance art with longtime companion Marina Abramović."
tagline: "German artist (1943-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ulay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1943-11-30"
deathDate: "2020-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.47
  momentum:             2.675816929779245
  historical:           18.64964533333334
  currentAttention:     11.58367911479945
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0880370/"
    handle:    "nm0880370"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ulay.si"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "الاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C_(%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF)"
    title: "اولی (هنرمند)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_(%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Улай (художник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Laysiepen"
    title: "Uwe Laysiepen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulay"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_(%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Улай (художник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%8C%E9%9B%B7"
    title: "乌雷"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69562"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1060566"
    title: "Ulay"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump