Margaret Raspé Group exhibition Labouring Bodies 10 June — 8 November 2026

With Labouring Bodies, Museum Tinguely positions itself as a place where discourse around machines and movement is expanded to include an urgently required sociopolitical dimension. The exhibition understands mechanisation not as a historical process that is now complete, but as an ongoing dynamic by which bodies are shaped and hierarchised, but which also opens up spaces for artistic resistance. By creating a dialogue between works from the early twentieth century to the present day, Labouring Bodies offers new ways of looking at the history of the modern age – as well as raising important questions about the world we live in today.

Curated by Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann.

With 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, et al.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive programme of events.

More information here.