Exhibition
Laboring Bodies
The opportunity to discover art from the early 20th century to the present day from a new perspective and to reflect on key social issues relating to the body, work and care.
Laboring Bodies examines the complex relationships between the body and technology from a feminist perspective. It sheds light on how female bodies in particular have been shaped and controlled by machines since modernity. The focus is on working, caring and birthing bodies, which remain invisible to this day and have been systematically ignored throughout history. With the double meaning of "laboring" as wage labor and childbearing, the exhibition title addresses the close interweaving of work (production) and biological reproduction. The exhibition offers the opportunity to discover art from the early 20th century to the present day from a new perspective and to reflect on central social issues relating to the body, work and care. What influence does mechanization have on our lives and our world of work? Which forms of work are remunerated - and which remain invisible? And how fair is the distribution of the work that sustains our society?
Artists: Berenice Abbott, Monira Al Qadiri, Rosa Barba, Alexandra Bircken, Daniela Brugger, Ursula Burghardt, Feliza Bursztyn, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Helen Chadwick, Sella Hasse, John Heartfield, Pati Hill, Rebecca Horn, Juliana Huxtable, Doruntina Kastrati, Mary Kelly, Aurora Király, Kiki Kogelnik, Azade Köker, Suzanne Lacy, Magda Langenstrass-Uhlig, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Ani Liu, Lee Lozano, Alexandra Navratil, Katja Novitskova, Ernestyna Orlowska, Frida Orupabo, Margaret Raspé, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Tabita Rezaire, Evelyn Richter, Niki de Saint Phalle, Marilou Schultz, Jean Tinguely, Doris Ziegler and others. a.
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Artists: Berenice Abbott, Monira Al Qadiri, Rosa Barba, Alexandra Bircken, Daniela Brugger, Ursula Burghardt, Feliza Bursztyn, Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Helen Chadwick, Sella Hasse, John Heartfield, Pati Hill, Rebecca Horn, Juliana Huxtable, Doruntina Kastrati, Mary Kelly, Aurora Király, Kiki Kogelnik, Azade Köker, Suzanne Lacy, Magda Langenstrass-Uhlig, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Ani Liu, Lee Lozano, Alexandra Navratil, Katja Novitskova, Ernestyna Orlowska, Frida Orupabo, Margaret Raspé, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Tabita Rezaire, Evelyn Richter, Niki de Saint Phalle, Marilou Schultz, Jean Tinguely, Doris Ziegler and others. a.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.