Ulay. There is a Criminal Touch to Art, 1976

Before showing the video of the Action, Ulay describes the course of events in 14 programmatic steps as follows:

He starts by hanging a reproduction of the Spitzweg painting "The Poor Poet" measuring 2.50 m in front of the College of Fine Arts in Berlin. Then he drives to the National Gallery in his own car and parks it at the back of the building. From there, he walks into the National Gallery building like any normal visitor to the museum, removes the picture from the wall, walks quickly back to his car and escapes in the direction of Kreuzberg to the "Künstlerhaus Bethanien" where he leaves his car. From the Künstlerhaus, he walks into the Moskauer Strasse, still carrying the picture. Once there, he enters a house for immigrant (so-called guest workers’) families where, in the living room of one of the families, he takes down a reproduction and hangs up the painting by Spitzweg instead.