Oleg Kulik

The incident inspired a scene in the 2017 film The Square directed by Ruben Östlund, where animal actor Terry Notary plays a performance artist who imitates an ape.

In 2009, Kulik curated the "Kandinsky Prize in London" at the Louise Blouin Foundation.

At the Interpol group exhibition in Stockholm in 1996, he performed in the gallery chained next to a sign reading "dangerous". An international scandal occurred when he not only attacked members of the public who chose to ignore the sign, in one case biting a man, but also attacked other artworks within the exhibition, partially destroying some pieces made by other artists.

Kulik considers his best curatorial endeavor to be "Leopards Bursting into a Temple" by Anatoly Osmolovsky in 1992. In this exhibit, two naked people were put into a cell with live leopards walking around them. He had said that he thought the exhibition was a "metaphor for everything new and lively that appears in our life".

A recent retrospective of Kulik's work was "Oleg Kulik: Chronicle. 1987–2007" at the Central House of Artists, Moscow. It was exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles festival, France in 2004.

Kulik was born in Kiev, graduated from Kiev Art School (1979) and Kiev Geological Survey College (1982), and was awarded a scholarship by the Berlin Senate in 1996. He lives and works in Moscow.

Oleg Borisovich Kulik (Russian: Оле́г Бори́сович Кули́к ; born 1961 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian-born Russian performance artist, sculptor, photographer and curator.