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It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966
Press release
29.02.2024
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Duration
02.03.2024 - 06.01.2025
Opening
01.03.2024 7pm
Press event
29.02.2024 11am - 12pm
Place of the press event
History Museum
Curators
Eva Tropper, Astrid Aschacher
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Changing labour, care emergency, gender pay gap and part-time trap. Slogans such as these show just how urgently topical questions of organisation, distribution and compensation of work have become. The issue of who assumes which kind of work and how these activities are rewarded is linked not least of all to gender relations. Care work is seen as primarily a female resource which can be made use of socially. What is the history of these subjects? And what comprises ‘work’ actually?
The starting point to the exhibition is the Fotoarchiv Blaschka (60,000 small-format negatives), allowing us to reflect on the relationship between paid, precarious and unpaid work in the lives of women between 1950 and 1970, and to trace social perceptions of women’s work. The exhibition aims to stir up discussion around the ‘value’ of different forms of work that are socially necessary. In this way, a stage is offered to the women of Styria, whose story has rarely been told.
A cooperation with the Kunsthaus Graz
The exhibition "Alles Arbeit" is a cooperation with "24/7" at Kunsthaus Graz.
Exhibition views
Samuel Hofstadler (scientific assistant), Eva Tropper (curator) and Astrid Aschacher (curatorial assistant) with Rober Rüf (exhibition design), from left
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Samuel Hofstadler (scientific assistant), Eva Tropper (curator), Marko Mele (Director of Science of Universalmuseum Joanneum) and Astrid Aschacher (curatorial assistant), from left
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Samuel Hofstadler (research assistant), Eva Tropper (curator) and Astrid Aschacher (curatorial assistant), from left
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Eva Tropper, the curator of the exhibition
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Ausstellungsansicht „Alles Arbeit. Frauen zwischen Erwerbs- und Sorgetätigkeit, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Ausstellungsansicht „Alles Arbeit. Frauen zwischen Erwerbs- und Sorgetätigkeit, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
Exhibition view „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
[Translate to English:] Erika Blaschkas camera at the exhibition „It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966“
Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek
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Images
Paid or unpaid domestic work? Woman cleaning the floor
Blaschka photo archive, 1965, Multimedia Collections/UMJ
View of a worker at the Puch works, Steyer Daimler Puch, Thondorf
Blaschka photo archive, 1962, Multimedia Collections/UMJ
Care work
Blaschka photo archive, 1962, Multimedia Collections/UMJ
Sorting orders, Modenmüller mail order company, Graz Eggenberg
Blaschka photo archive, around 1959, Multimedia Collections/UMJ
Mobile care by a Caritas nurse, without location
Blaschka photo archive, 1953, Multimedia Collections/UMJ
Women in medical care: Dr. Helga Stulnig-Kanzian, Wundschuh
Blaschka photo archive, 1956, Multimedia Collections/UMJ
Accidental picture of press photographer Erika Blaschka at work, excerpt
Multimedia collections/UMJ
Random picture of press photographer Erika Blaschka at work. Picture from the series "Award Dr. König with Governor Krainer, 24.1.1965" (original title)
Multimedia collections/UMJ
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