Documenta 6

1977 art exhibition in Kassel, West Germany

documenta 6 was the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Manfred Schneckenburger.[1] The title of the exhibition was: Internationale Ausstellung – international exhibition.[2][3]

## Participants

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Berenice Abbott | Hermann Albert | Carl Andre | Ben d’Armagnac | Christian Ludwig Attersee
Vito Acconci | Pierre Alechinsky | Theo Angelopoulos | Arman | Bernard Aubertin
Valerio Adami | Gerhard Altenbourg | Ottomar Anschütz | Fernando Arrabal | Joannis Avramidis
Robert Adamson | Robert Altman | Horst Antes | Eduardo Arroyo | Alice Aycock
Peter Ackermann | Anatol | Ant Farm | Art & Language | Mac Adams |
Billy Adler | Gisela Andersch | Shusaku Arakawa | David Askevold | Carlo Alfano |
Chantal Akerman | Laurie Anderson | Diane Arbus | Eugène Atget | Stephen Antonakos |
Thom Andersen |  |  |  |

Francis Bacon | Monika Baumgartl | Joseph Beuys | Fernando Botero |
Michael Badura | Hippolyte Bayard | Michael von Biel | Margaret Bourke-White | Günter Brus
Édouard Baldus | Thomas Bayrle | Werner Bischof | Mathew B. Brady | Anatol Brusilovsky
Balthus | Cecil Beaton | Louis-Auguste Bisson & Auguste-Rosalie Bisson | Brassaï | Wojciech Bruszewski
Joachim Bandau | Bernd and Hilla Becher | Irma Blank | George Brecht | Luis Buñuel
Jared Bark | Stephen Beck | Karl Blossfeldt | KP Brehmer | Chris Burden
Robert Barry | Bill Beckley | Anna and Bernhard Blume | George Hendrik Breitner | Daniel Buren
Jennifer Bartlett | E. J. Bellocq | Mel Bochner | Heinz Breloh | Stuart Brisley FIU
Scott Burton | Gianfranco Baruchello | James Benning | Peter Bogdanovich | Georg Baselitz
Michael Buthe | Giorgio Battistella | Franz Bernhard | Claus Böhmler | James Lee Byars
Gerd Baukhage | Jean-Marie Bertholin | Blythe Bohnen | Jürgen Brodwolf |
Horst H. Baumann | Nuccio Bertone | Karl Bohrmann | Marcel Broodthaers |
Bodo Baumgarten | Jean-Louis Bertucelli | Christian Boltanski | Stanley Brouwn |

Enzo Cacciola | Robert Capa | Barbara Chase-Riboud | Pinchas Cohen Gan | Michael Craig-Martin
Julia Margaret Cameron | Henri Cartier-Bresson | Eduardo Chillida | James Collins | Fritz Cremer
Colin Campbell | Étienne Carjat | Christo | Miguel Condé | José Luis Cuevas
Peter Campus | Ugo Carrega | Chryssa | Tony Conrad | Edward Curtis
Louis Cane | Lewis Carroll | Chuck Close | Steven Cortright |
Vlassis Caniaris | Claude Chabrol | Harold Cohen | Claudio Costa |

Miodrag Djuric (Dado) | Douglas Davis | Walter De Maria | Jim Dine | Juan Downey
Louis Daguerre | Ger Dekkers | Agnes Denes | Alfred & John Bool and Henry Dixon | Peter Downsbrough
Hanne Darboven | Willem de Kooning | Fred Deux | Dore O. | Michael Druks
Alan Davie | Philip Henry Delamotte | Jan Dibbets | Ugo Dossi | Marcel Duchamp
John Davies | Jack Delano | Braco Dimitrijević | Christian Dotremont | David Douglas Duncan

Don Eddy | Paul Eliasberg | Heinz Emigholz | Ulrich Erben | Walker Evans
Benni Efrat | Ger van Elk | Ed Emshwiller | Hugo Erfurth | Valie Export
Sergei Eisenstein | Peter Henry Emerson | Leo Erb | Garth Evans |

Öyvind Fahlström | Federico Fellini | Dan Flavin | Charles Frazier | FIU - Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research
Lee Friedlander | Roger Fenton | Richard Fleischner | Hermine Freed | Hamish Fulton
Ralston Farina | Armand Fernandez | Corsin Fontana | Wil Frenken |
Heide Fasnacht | Vincenzo Ferrari | Fred Forest | Achim Freyer |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Robert Filliou | Terry Fox | Gisèle Freund |
Hans-Peter Feldmann |  |  |  |

Wolfgang Gäfgen | Jochen Gerz | Tina Girouard | Dan Graham |
| Paul-Armand Gette | Michael Gitlin | Eve Gramatzki | Alan Green
Alexander Gardner | Peter Gidal | Wilhelm von Gloeden | Tom J. Gramse | Marty Greenbaum
Winfred Gaul | William Giersbach | Jean-Luc Godard | Gotthard Graubner |
Rupprecht Geiger | Gilbert & George | Hubertus Gojowczyk | Nancy Graves | Robert Grosvenor
Michael Geißler | Frank Gillette | Kuno Gonschior |  | Hetum Gruber
Arnold Genthe | Raimund Girke | Camille Graeser | Renato Guttuso

Roel D’Haese | Haus-Rucker-Co | Bernhard Heisig | Leon Hirszman | Horst P. Horst
Helfried Hagenberg | Erich Hauser | Michael Heizer | Antonius Höckelmann | George Hoyningen-Huene
David Hall | Lady Clementina Hawarden | Al Held | David Hockney | Alfred Hofkunst
Nigel Hall | Ron Hays | Werner Herzog | Anatol Herzfeld | Douglas Huebler
John DiLeva Halpern | Tim Head | Eva Hesse | Rudolf Hoflehner | Danièle Huillet
Philippe Halsman | Erwin Heerich | David Octavius Hill | Edgar Hofschen | Alfonso Hüppi
Richard Hamilton | Axel Heibel | John Hilliard | Hans Hollein |
Heijo Hangen | Birgit Hein | John Hilliard | Nan Hoover |
Noriyuki Haraguchi | Dietrich Helms | Lewis Hine | Rebecca Horn |
Karl Horst Hödicke | Wilhelm Hein

Shōhei Imamura | Will Insley | Jean Ipoustéguy | Patrick Ireland | Hans Paul Isenrath

Ken Jacobs | Paul Jaray | Jasper Johns | Frances Benjamin Johnston |
Miklós Jancsó | Jo Jastram | Douglas James Johnson | Donald Judd |
Horst Janssen | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Joan Jonas | Martha Jungwirth |

Wolf Kahlen | Buster Keaton | Jürgen Klauke | Beryl Korot | Ferdinand Kriwet
Max G. Kaminski | Ellsworth Kelly | Alexander Kluge | Joseph Kosuth | Germaine Krull
Howard Kanovitz | Michael Kenny | Werner Knaupp | Jannis Kounellis | Shigeko Kubota
Tadeusz Kantor | André Kertész | Günther Knipp | András Kovács | Stanley Kubrick
Allan Kaprow | Anselm Kiefer | Milan Knížák | Attila Kovács  | Gary Kuehn
Dani Karavan | Harry Kipper | Imi Knoebel | Kurt Kren |
Marin Karmitz | Alain Kirili | Alice Kochs | Dieter Krieg |
| Ronald B. Kitaj | Christof Kohlhöfer | Richard Kriesche |
On Kawara | Konrad Klapheck | Jiří Kolář | Les Krims | Willem de Kooning |

László Lakner | Barry Le Va | Michael Leisgen | Robert Lawrance Lobe | Urs Lüthi
Arthur Lamothe | Russell Lee | Les Levine | Francisco López Hernández | George Platt Lynes
Richard Landry | Jean Le Gac | Sol LeWitt | Antonio López García |
Nikolaus Lang | Gustave Le Gray | Roy Lichtenstein | Joseph Losey |
Dorothea Lange | Malcolm Le Grice | Richard Lindner | Bernhard Luginbühl |
John Latham | Barbara Leisgen | Michael Lingner | Bernhard Lüthi |

Heinz Mack | Alistair Maclennan FIU | Kenneth Martin | Robert McDowell FIU | Gerhard Merz
Alexander Mitta | Robert Morris | Nino Malfatti | Mario Merz | Milan Mölzer
Felix H. Man | Roberto Matta | Borg Mesch | Bernard Moninot | Ugo Mulas
Robert Mangold | Gordon Matta-Clark | Annette Messager | Henry Moore | Antoni Muntadas
Andy Mann | Wolfgang Mattheuer | Adolphe de Meyer | Stefan Moore | Walter Murch
Werner Mantz | Cynthia Lee Maughan | Duane Michals | Carmengloria Morales | J.J. Murphy
Piero Manzoni | Anthony McCall | Henri Michaux | Marcello Morandini | Zoran Mušič
Giacomo Manzù | Barry McCallion | Rune Mields | Pit Morell | Eadweard Muybridge
Alfons Maria Mucha | Robert Mapplethorpe | Bruce McLean FIU | Joseph McWilliams FIU | Antoni Miralda
François Morellet | Brice Marden | Syd Mead | Josef Mikl | María Moreno |
Agnes Martin | Dariush Mehrjui | Joan Miró | Malcolm Morley |

Tomitaro Nachi | Bruce Nauman | Wolfgang Nestler | Nicéphore Niépce | Maria Nordman
Nadar | Charles Nègre | Richard Newton | Ansgar Nierhoff | Gabriele Nothhelfer & Helmut Nothhelfer
Maurizio Nannucci | Werner Nekes | Max Neuhaus | Richard Nonas | Lev Nussberg

Dore O. | Timothy H. O'Sullivan | Roman Opalka | Nagisa Ōshima |
Oswald Oberhuber | Claes Oldenburg | Dennis Oppenheim | Jean Otth |
Brian O'Doherty | Claudio Olivieri | Anna Oppermann |

Hilmar Pabel | Rainer Pagel FIU | Giulio Paolini | A. R. Penck | Lucio Pozzi
Nam June Paik | Eduardo Paolozzi | Peng Wan-Ts | Pablo Picasso | Otto Piene
Blinky Palermo | Gordon Parks | Beverly Pepper | Walter Pichler | Heinz-Günter Prager
Mario Prassinos | Magnús Pálsson | Sergei Parajanov | Dolores Pacileo | Anne and Patrick Poirier |
Gianni Piacentino | Panamarenko | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Wolfgang Petrick | Sigmar Polke |
Gina Pane | Max Peintner | Friederike Pezold | Don Potts |

Isabel Quintanilla | Daniel Quintero |  |  |

William Raban | John Reilly | Jacob August Riis | Peter Roehr | Ed Ruscha
David Rabinowitch | James Reineking | Bridget Riley | Ulrike Rosenbach | Ken Russell
Arnulf Rainer | Albert Renger-Patzsch | Klaus Rinke | James Rosenquist | Claude Rutault
Yvonne Rainer | Jean Renoir | Larry Rivers | Gerhard Richter | Reiner Ruthenbeck
Robert Rauschenberg | Alain Resnais | Jacques Rivette | Roberto Rossellini | Robert Ryman
Man Ray | Erich Reusch | Józef Robakowski | Dieter Roth | Éric Rohmer
Tony Ray-Jones | Hans Peter Reuter | Dorothea Rockburne | Arthur Rothstein |
Martial Raysse | George Rickey | Alexander Rodchenko | Gerhard Rühm | Reindeer Werk

Hans Salentin | Tomas Schmit | Paul Sharits | Michael Singer  | Edward Steichen
Sohrab Shahid Saless | Wolfgang Schmitz | Martin Schwarz | Willi Sitte | Saul Steinberg
Erich Salomon | Helmut Schober | Martin Scorsese | Neal Slavin | Frank Stella
Lucas Samaras | Eugen Schönebeck | George Segal | David Smith | Alfred Stieglitz
Fred Sandback | Ben Schonzeit | Antonio Seguí | Robert Smithson | John Benjamin Stone
August Sander | Rudolf Schoofs | Friedrich Seidenstücker | Fernando Ezequiel Solanas | Paul Strand
Sarkis Zabunyan | Jan Schoonhoven | Richard Serra | Michael Snow | Jean-Marie Straub
Antonio Saura | Werner Schroeter | Ben Shahn | Alan Sonfist | Liselotte Strelow
Konrad Balder Schäuffelen | Heinz Schubert | Joel Shapiro | Eve Sonneman | Michelle Stuart
Giorgi Shengelaia | Alf Schuler | Charles Sheeler | Keith Sonnier | Josef Sudek
Alexander Schleber | HA Schult | Stephen Shore | Daniel Spoerri | István Szábo
Barbara Schmidt-Heins | Bernard Schultze | Katharina Sieverding | Klaus Staeck | Chihiro Shimotani
Gabriele Schmidt-Heins | Emil Schumacher | Charles Simonds | Ted Stamm | Kenneth Snelson
Ursula Schultze-Bluhm |  |  |  |

Jiro Takamatsu | Andrei Tarkovsky | Caroline Tisdall FIU | George Trakas | Peter Tuma |
Takis | André Thomkins | François Truffaut | Deborah Turbeville |
Henry Fox Talbot | Jean Tinguely | Costas Tsoclis | Richard Tuttle |
Antoni Tàpies | Gérard Titus-Carmel | Werner Tübke | Cy Twombly |

Günther Uecker | Lee Ufan | Timm Ulrichs | Hans Uhlmann |  |

Giuliano Vangi | Vladimir Veličković | Bill Viola | Klaus Vogelgesang | Hannsjörg Voth
Agnès Varda | Bernard Venet | Luchino Visconti | Wolf Vostell |

Andrzej Wajda | Weegee |  | Gottfried Wiegand | Claus Peter Wittig
Willie Walker | William Wegman | Wim Wenders | Klaus Wildenhahn | Krzysztof Wodiczko
Franz Erhard Walther | Peter Weibel | Lina Wertmüller | Dorothee von Windheim |
Andy Warhol | Lawrence Weiner | Dsiga Wertow | Gerd Winner | Fritz Wotruba
Ryszard Waśko | Roger Welch | Marthe Wéry | Reindert Wepko van de Wint | Klaus Wyborny
Wolfgang Weber | Peter Weller | Tom Wesselmann | Rainer Wittenborn |

Keigo Yamamoto | Yves Yersin | Yoshio Yoshida | Frank Young |

Herbert Zangs | Gianfranco Zappettini | Jerry Zeniuk | Heinrich Zille |
Krzysztof Zanussi | Michele Zaza | Christian Ziewer | Zush |

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documenta

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* II. documenta 1959
* documenta III 1964
* 4\. documenta 1968
* documenta 5 1972
* documenta 6 1977
* documenta 7 1982
* documenta 8 1987
* DOCUMENTA IX 1992
* documenta X 1997
* Documenta11 2002
* documenta 12 2007
* dOCUMENTA (13) 2012
* documenta 14 2017
* documenta fifteen 2022

## References

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1. ^ Grasskamp, Walter (11 August 2005). Ferguson, Bruce W.; Greenberg, Reesa; Nairne, Sandy (eds.). Thinking About Exhibitions. Routledge. p. 54\. ISBN 978-1-13482002-3.
2. ^ Katalog zur documenta 6. Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X Band 1: Malerei, Plastik/Environment, Performance.. Band 2: Fotografie, Film, Video. Band 3: Handzeichnungen, Utopisches Design, Bücher.
3. ^ Malin Hedlin Hayden (2015). Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations. Routledge. pp. 32, 33, 34, 61. ISBN 978-1-4724-4975-7. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

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