Opening
Special
Opening Labouring Bodies & Summer Party
June 9, 2026 | from 18:30 Uhr
Performance by and with Ernestyna Orlowska
Join us for the opening of the exhibition Labouring Bodies and our annual Summer Party with DJ Noria Lilt
Free admission
Welcome
Dr. Nina Schwab-Hautzinge
Leiterin Group Communications, Roche
Esther Keller
Regierungsrätin des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Vorsteherin des Bau- und Verkehrsdepartements
Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann
Kuratorin Museum Tinguely
Moderation
Roland Wetzel
Direktor Museum Tinguely
Followed by: Performance by and with Ernestyna Orlowska Make Your Body Your Machine
on the body-turned-machine as a symptom of the Gig Economy.
A woman on a scooter, the Rocky soundtrack, a delivery rucksack: what follows is dance, martial arts and fitness training in one. In her performance, Ernestyna Orlowska reflects on the body within the gig economy, where it becomes the extension of an app and of an exploitative business model. Her sports clothes and the slogan “Just Eat” unmask the obsession with optimization – as if eating, performance and beauty were that simple. In this way, Orlowska also asks: Do we have a body – or are we that body?
Afterwards, the big summer party with DJ Noria Lilt will take place.