# Documenta 5

documenta 5 was the fifth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 30 June and 8 October 1972 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Harald Szeemann. The title of the exhibition was: Befragung der Realität – Bildwelten heute / Questioning Reality – Pictorial worlds today.
Szeemann's curation is known for establishing a model for future art biennial events, with a central, thematic curatorial idea.

## Participants

A :
| Vito Acconci | Richard Aeschlimann | Vincenzo Agnetti | Peter Alexander | John De Andrea |
| Giovanni Anselmo | Anatol Herzfeld | Archigram | Siah Armajani | Charles Arnoldi |
| Art & Language | Richard Artschwager | Michael Asher | | |
| B |||||
| John Baldessari | Robert Barry | Georg Baselitz | Lothar Baumgarten | Monika Baumgartl |
| Bernd and Hilla Becher | Robert Bechtle | Gottfried Bechtold | Joseph Beuys | Natalie Bieser |
| Karl Oskar Blase | Mel Bochner | Alighiero Boetti | Marinus Boezem | Christian Boltanski |
| Stan Brakhage | Claudio Bravo | George Brecht | KP Brehmer | Marcel Broodthaers |
| Stanley Brouwn | Günter Brus | Daniel Buren | Victor Burgin | Michael Buthe |
| Eugenia Butler | James Lee Byars | | | |
| C |||||
| Pier Paolo Calzolari | Luciano Castelli | Abraham David Christian | Christo and Jeanne-Claude | Chuck Close |
| Tony Conrad | Ron Cooper | William Copley | Joseph Cornell | Robert Cottingham |
| Paul Cotton | | | | |
| D |||||
| Hanne Darboven | Gino de Dominicis | Walter De Maria | Hermann Degkwitz | David Deutsch |
| Jan Dibbets | Herbert Distel | Ottomar Domnick | Dore O. | Marcel Duchamp |
| John Dugger | Stephen Dwoskin | | | |
| E |||||
| Don Eddy | Franz Eggenschwiler | Ger van Elk | Richard Estes | |
| F |||||
| Luciano Fabro | Hans-Peter Feldmann | John C. Fernie | Robert Filliou | Jud Fine |
| Joel Fisher | Barry Flanagan | Y. Fongi | Terry Fox | Hollis Frampton |
| Howard Fried | Hamish Fulton | | | |
| G |||||
| Barry Gerson | Franz Gertsch | Vittorio Gigliotti | Gilbert & George | Ralph Goings |
| Hubertus Gojowczyk | Larry Gottheim | Dan Graham | Nancy Graves | |
| H |||||
| Hans Haacke | Duane Hanson | Guy Harloff | Michael Harvey | Haus-Rucker-Co |
| Birgit Hein & Wilhelm Hein | Auguste Herbin | Eva Hesse | Ernst Hiestand & Ursula Hiestand | Rebecca Horn |
| Jean-Olivier Hucleux | Douglas Huebler |
| I |||||
| Jörg Immendorff | Will Insley | Rolf Iseli | | |
| J |||||
| Ken Jacobs | Neil Jenney | Alfred Jensen | Jasper Johns | Joan Jonas |
| K |||||
| Howard Kanovitz | Edward Kienholz & Nancy Kienholz | Imi Knoebel | Christof Kohlhöfer | Jannis Kounellis |
| Tom Kovachevich | Piotr Kowalski | | | |
| L |||||
| David Lamelas | Owen Land | Jean Le Gac | Barry Le Va | Alfred Leslie |
| Sol LeWitt | Richard Long | Ingeborg Lüscher | | |
| M |||||
| Inge Mahn | Robert Mangold | Brice Marden | Agnes Martin | Donatella Mazzoleni |
| Étienne Martin | Richard McLean | David Medalla | Dieter Meier | Fernando Melani |
| Jim Melchert | Mario Merz | Gustav Metzger | Russ Meyer | Bernd Minnich |
| Malcolm Morley | Ed Moses | | | |
| N |||||
| Bruce Nauman | Werner Nekes | Hermann Nitsch | Andrew Noren | |
| O |||||
| Claes Oldenburg | Yoko Ono | Dennis Oppenheim | | |
| P |||||
| Robin Page | Blinky Palermo | Panamarenko | Giulio Paolini | A. R. Penck |
| Giuseppe Penone | Joachim Pfeufer | Elisabeth Pfund & Roger Pfund | Vettor Pisani | Sigmar Polke |
| Paolo Portoghesi | Stephen Posen | Rosa von Praunheim | |
| R |||||
| Markus Raetz | Arnulf Rainer | Gerhard Richter | David Rimmer | Klaus Rinke |
| Dorothea Rockburne | Peter Roehr | Aldo Loris Rossi | Ulrich Rückriem | Allen Ruppersberg |
| Edward Ruscha | Reiner Ruthenbeck | Robert Ryman | | |
| S |||||
| John Salt | Salvo | Lucas Samaras | Günter Sarée | Paul Sarkisian |
| Jean-Frédéric Schnyder | Ben Schonzeit | Werner Schroeter | HA Schult | Armand Schulthess |
| Rudolf Schwarzkogler | Fritz Schwegler | Richard Serra | Paul Sharits | Alan Shields |
| Katharina Sieverding | Robert Smithson | Michael Snow | Holly Solomon & Bert Spielvogel | Irm & Ed Sommer |
| Keith Sonnier | Klaus Staeck | Paul Staiger | Jorge Stever | Robert Strübin |
| T |||||
| Paul Thek | Wayne Thiebaud | André Thomkins | David Tremlett | Richard Tuttle |
| U |||||
| Bernd Upnmoor | | | | |
| V |||||
| Ben Vautier | | | | |
| W |||||
| Franz Erhard Walther | Robert Watts | William Wegman | Bertram Weigel | Lawrence Weiner |
| Roger Welch | John Wesley | Horace Clifford Westermann | Joyce Wieland | William T. Wiley |
| Charles Wilp | Rolf Winnewisser | Adolf Wölfli | Tom Wudl | Klaus Wyborny |
| Y |||||
| La Monte Young | Peter Young | | | |
| Z |||||
| Marian Zazeela | Gilberto Zorio | | | |