documenta 12 was the twelfth edition of

documenta Documenta (often stylized documenta) is an Art exhibition, exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Documenta was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgarte ...

, a

quinquennial An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded. Most countries celebrate national anniversaries, typically called national days. These could be the date of independence of the nation or the adoption o ...

contemporary

art exhibition An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is occasionally true, it is stated to be a "permanen ...

. It was held between 16 June and 23 September 2007 in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

, Germany. The artistic director was Roger M. Buergel in collaboration with Ruth Noack.

Documenta 12 magazines ''Documenta 12 magazines'' (also ''the Magazine project'' or simply ''the magazines'') was a central project of the 12th edition (2007) of the documenta exhibition, similar in dimensions and world outreach to the "platforms" of the previous edi ...

was one of the central projects of the documenta exhibition. It was conceived and directed by

Georg Schöllhammer Georg Schöllhammer is an Austrian curator, writer and editor, born in 1958 in Linz, Austria. He is one of the founders and the editor in chief of the influential art magazine '' Springerin'' based in Vienna and was the initiator, head and ed ...

Participants

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