Margaret Raspé Group exhibition Labouring Bodies Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland 10 June – 8 November 2026

Curated by Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann

With Berenice Abbott, Monira Al Qadiri, Rosa Barba, Clara Bausch, Alexandra Bircken, Thomas Brinkmann, Daniela Brugger, Ursula Burghardt, Feliza Bursztyn, CATPC, Mbuku Kimpala, 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, Elisabeth Niggemeyer, Ani Liu, Lee Lozano, Alexandra Navratil, Katja Novitskova, Ernestyna Orlowska, Frida Orupabo, Heiner Ranke, Tabita Rezaire, Evelyn Richter, Niki de Saint Phalle, Marilou Schultz, Jean Tinguely, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Doris Ziegler.

Labouring Bodies explores the relationship between the body, labour and technology from a feminist perspective. The extensive group exhibition shows how the human body – especially the feminised and marginalised human body – has been shaped and controlled by machines since the dawn of the modern age, and how it has also been understood as a site of resistance. With its focus on working with machines, the technologisation of production and reproduction, and women’s contribution to technological progress, the show invites us to rethink our notions of the body, labour and care. Spanning the period from the early twentieth century to the present, the works in the exhibition reveal parallels and underscore the ongoing relevance and topicality of the subject matter.