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[Kulik, Oleh] (b Kyiv, Ukraine, April 15, 1961). Russian performance artist, sculptor, photographer, and curator of Ukrainian ethnicity. He studied at the Kyiv Art School (graduated 1979) and at the Kyiv Geological Survey College (graduated 1982). After serving in the Soviet military from 1984–6, Kulik moved to Moscow. There he became involved with the underground avant-garde artistic community, participating in numerous group shows and performances, often in collaboration with his wife Mila Bredikhina. Many of these used shock as a call to action against materialism and commodification of art. His work also protested against the forfeiting of art’s spiritual values. Animals, representing spiritually pure beings, were frequently incorporated into Kulik’s work, either live or as a persona the artist himself adopted. The series Zoophrenia, which began in the 1990s, earned Kulik international notoriety as he explored issues of brutality, sado-masochism, and severe inhumanity through the public arena of performance. It began in Tver, Russia, with an action entitled ...