It's All Work. Women between Paid Employment and Care Work, Fotoarchiv Blaschka 1950-1966

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