Oleg Kulik has displayed his works at, among others, Manifesta I in Rotterdam, Holland (1996), the Venice Biennial (1997), and at the Biennials of Istanbul, Turkey (1997) and Sao Paulo, Brazil (1998). He has attracted the attention of art critics and exhibition curators the world over with his performance shows, where he assumes the role of 'artist-animal', or, more specifically, 'artist-dog,' or at times, a bird, a fish, or a bull. Kulik asks a basic question about the essence of being human, and what reverting to the state of 'original animal' may mean.