Birgit Hein

She was represented with two film works, together with Wilhelm Hein within Documenta V in Kassel in 1972, a worldwide exhibition of influential art after World War II.

[8] Their combined work was presented in different retrospectives, e.g. in the Anthology Archives, New York (1974), in the Filmmuseum Frankfurt (1985) as well as in Cologne (1988) and in Copenhagen (1989).

For the Goethe-Institut they toured in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India (1987) and took part in the International Experimental Film Congress Toronto (1989).

In Cologne she was art founder of XScreen for subculture performances and program work for diverse cinemas.

She undertook a number of important curatorial projects, including the groundbreaking film section at Documenta VI.