The show had various sections named "Artist's Museum" or "Individual Mythologies". In an interview in June 2001, he explained: "All the former Documentas followed the old-hat, thesis/antithesis dialectic: Constructivism/Surrealism, Pop/Minimalism, Realism/Concept. That’s why I invented the term, 'individual mythologies'—not a style, but a human right. An artist could be a geometric painter or a gestural artist; each can live his or her own mythology. Style is no longer the important issue." Artists of individual mythology are among others Armand Schulthess, Jürgen Brodwolf, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, the musician La Monte Young, Etienne Martin, Panamarenko, Paul Thek, Marian Zazeela, Horst Gläsker or Heather Sheehan. For the 1980 Venice Biennale, he and Achille Bonito Oliva co-created the "Aperto", a new section in the Biennale for young artists. He was later selected as the Biennale director for both 1999 and 2001. This marked him as the first to curate both documenta and the Biennale. Until 2014, he was the only curator who had this distinction, which since the 2015 Venice Biennale is now shared with Okwui Enwezor. From 1981 to 1991, Szeemann was a "permanent freelance curator" at the Kunsthaus Zürich. During this time, he also curated for other institutions including the Deichtorhallen Hamburg for its inaugural exhibition "Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel Und Simul In HH." In 1982 he commissioned a three-dimensional reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters's Hannover Merzbau (as photographed in 1933) for the exhibition "Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk" in Zürich the following year. It was built by the Swiss stage designer Peter Bissegger and is now on permanent display in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. Early exhibitions 1957 03.08 – 20.10 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Malende Dichter – Dichtende Maler 24.09 – 27.09 Kleintheater Kramgasse 6, Bern Hugo Ball (1886-1927): Manusckripte, Photographien, Bücher (Bern – Zürich: 4.11.1957) Club Bel Etage, Zürich 1961 08.07 -03.09 Kunsthalle, Bern Otto Tschumi (Bern – Glarus) Kunsthaus, Glarus 02.09 – 24. 09 Städtische Galerie, Biel Buri, Gürtler, Iseli, Luginbühl, Meister, Spescha, Schaffner 09.09 -15.10 Kunsthalle, Bern Hans Aeschbacher: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 21.10 – 26.11 Kunsthalle, Bern Prähistorisch Felsbilder der Sahara: Expedition Henri Lhote im Gebiet Tassili-n-Ajjer 1962 17.02-11.03 Kunsthalle, Bern Puppen-Marionetten-Schattenspiel: Asiatica und Experimente 17.03-23.04 Kunsthalle, Bern Charles Lapicque (Bern-München-Grenoble-Le Havre) Städtisch Galeri im Lenbachhau, München/ Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble/Maison de la Culture, Le Havre 28.04-27.05 Kunsthalle, Bern Lenz Klotz, Friedrich Kuhn, Bruno Müller, Matias Spescha 02.06-01.07 Kunsthalle, Bern Walter Kurt Wiemken (Bern – St