Background
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.
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. At the Interpol group exhibition in Stockholm in 1996, he performed in the gallery chained next to a sign labelled "dangerous". Kulik thought this was an excusable act, as there was a warning label attached to his performance which people chose to disregard, reasoning that his intention was to divulge his angst at the current cultural crisis through the violent anger of a dog.
Susan Silas letter Artist Susan Silas wrote "A Love Letter to Oleg Kulik, A Prince among Men, a Manitoba among Dogs".
She describes visiting Kulik during his performance of "I Bite America and America Bites Maine", in which Kulik references Joseph Beuys with an updated reference to the current cultural setting of America. Again, Kulik performed as a dog, this time in a specially built cage, which the spectator would enter wearing protective garb.
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, the artwork made by other artists.