Participating Artists:
| Eija-Liisa Ahtila 1959, FI |
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| Giovanni Anselmo 1934, IT |
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| Ida Applebroog 1929, US |
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| Art & Language 1968, UK |
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| Jo Baer 1929, US |
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| Thomas Bayrle 1937, DE |
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| Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, IE |
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| Joseph Beuys 1921-1986, DE |
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| Guillaume Bijl 1946, BE |
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| Julius Bissier 1892-1965, DE |
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| Bernhard Johannes Blume 1937, DE |
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| Christian Boltanski 1944, FR |
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| George Brecht 1926, US |
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| Marcel Broodthaers 1924-1976, BE |
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| John Cage 1912-1992, US |
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| Luis Camnitzer 1937, DE |
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| Robert Capa 1913-1954, HU |
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| Lawrence Carroll 1954, AU |
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| Christo & Jeanne-Claude 1958 |
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| Lygia Clark 1920-1988, BR |
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| Stan Douglas 1960, CA |
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| Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968, FR |
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| Ed van der Elsken 1925-1990, NL |
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| Ed Emshwiller |
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| William Engelen 1964 |
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| Walker Evans 1903-1975, US |
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| Jean Fautrier 1898-1964, FR |
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| Friederike Feldmann 1962, DE |
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| Robert Filliou 1926-1987, FR |
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| Fischli & Weiss 1979, CH |
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| Terry Fox 1943, US |
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| Leon Golub 1922-2004, US |
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| Rodney Graham 1949, CA |
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| Johan Grimonprez 1962, BE |
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| Ulrike Grossarth 1952, DE |
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| Sabine Groß 1961, DE |
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| Hans Haacke 1936, DE |
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| Richard Hamilton 1922, UK |
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| Karl Hartung 1908-1967, DE |
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| Werner Heldt 1904-1954, DE |
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| Ernst Hermanns 1914-2000, DE |
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| Eva Hesse 1936-1970, DE |
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| David Hockney 1937, UK |
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| R.B. Kitaj 1932-2007, US |
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| Pierre Klossowski 1905-2001, FR |
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| Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1881-1919, DE |
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| Katrin von Maltzahn 1964 |
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| Agnes Martin 1912-2004, CA |
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| Katharina Meldner 1943 |
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| Henri Michaux 1899-1984, BE |
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| Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907, DE |
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| Jonathan Monk 1969, UK |
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| Malcolm Morley 1931, UK |
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| Bruce Nauman 1941, US |
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| Claes Oldenburg 1929, SE |
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| Nam June Paik 1932-2006, KR |
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| Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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| Markus Raetz 1941, CH |
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| Gerhard Richter 1932, DE |
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| Alexander Roob 1956, DE |
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| Dieter Roth 1930-1998, DE |
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| Ed Ruscha 1937, US |
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| Reiner Ruthenbeck 1937, DE |
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| Rob Scholte 1958, NL |
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| Jan J. Schoonhoven 1914-1994, NL |
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| Tilo Schulz 1972, DE |
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| Andreas Seltzer |
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| Robert Smithson 1938-1973, US |
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| Heidi Specker 1962, DE |
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| Mark Tansey 1949, US |
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| Paul Thek 1933-1988, US |
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| André Thomkins 1930-1985, CH |
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| Mark Tobey 1890-1976, US |
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| Heinz Trökes 1913-1997, DE |
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| Hans Uhlmann 1900-1975, DE |
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| Maria Helena Vieira da Silva 1908-1992, PT |
| | Heike Vogler |
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| Kai Vöckler |
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| Andy Warhol 1928-1987, US |
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| Weegee 1899-1968, UA |
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| William Wegman 1942, US |
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| Fritz Winter 1905-1976, DE |
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| Krzysztof Wodiczko 1943, PL |
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| Wols 1913-1951, DE |
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| Adolf Wölfli 1864-1930, CH |
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The development of the documenta – from a sideshow accompanying the Bundesgartenschau (1955) to the documenta 11 (2002) – consists of many contradictions and inconsistencies, but also reflects different artistic and curatorial passions, philosophies and theories, as much as contemporary political and social trends.
50 years of documenta correspond to 50 years of art- and contemporary history, which simply cannot be described in a linear fashion.
The exhibition 50 Jahre / Years documenta 1955 – 2005 concentrates on the fragility of art history, reconsidered from today’s perspective. By essentially leaving the archival material and the artworks without further interpretations and comments, the visitors are in a position to compare and remember independently and to experience atmospheric insights. In order to present a wide range of vision, the exhibition is structured into five interacting and complementary chapters: an archival, an art historical, a site-specific, a cinematic and a scientific chapter.
Archive in motion
In order to do justice to the singular character of each documenta, the various information materials are arranged in eleven separate chambers. This presentation allows a new access to the archival material and a different way of reading. The different compositions are accompanied by artworks by various contemporary artists, who are in this way dealing with one documenta at a time focussing on the archive. Their artworks propose an extended view on the archive and demonstrate – beside the documentary – a creative view of the material.
Discreet Energies
This part of the exhibition brings well-known and less well-known artworks of the past eleven documenta-exhibitions back to Kassel. It is not the intention to recapitulate the by now established canon of modernist art after 1945. The selected works remain in opposition to art historiography, because, anarchistic or poetic as they are, they evade the museum. These artworks relate to contemplation, but also to an absolute realism; they are composed of minimal gestures, precise mimesis or atmospheric setting. The artworks are discreet, because they are not imposing.
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