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WERKER COLLECTIVE
BECOMING UNCOMMON SUBJECTS

6 September 2025 – 23 November 2025




RADIUS CCA
Delft
The Netherlands



Structured in three intersecting works for each of the three circles that shape the exhibition space of RADIUS, this exhibition displays three of the main methodologies in Werker Collective’s practice: moving image, textile, and archive. Werker Collective operates at the intersection of labour, ecofeminism, and LGBTQIA+ movements, developing projects alongside a network of collaborators that forge intergenerational and intersectional solidarity and create alliances where to study, imagine, perform, and make art together. Founded by Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos in Amsterdam in 2009, Werker has been building an archive of manifold printed matter and moving image, comprising more than three thousand documents at present. In every project they undertake, the archive is activated via different methodologies and by different constellations of collaborators.

At its core, this exhibition zooms in on the topic of abolition as a framework to reconsider systems of labour under Capitalism. What could the abolition of labour look and feel like? How can we use its premises, tools, and tactics to imagine and enact other kinds of work that are not based on exploitation, competition, or indenture? By exploring the abolition of labour, this exhibition opens possibilities of reclaiming and redefining work, moving from labour as a method of repression and extraction to the constitution of spaces of solidarity and collective action that form the “Uncommons”, a proposal by author McKenzie Wark.

Amidst the aggravation and shameless exaltation of heteropatriarchal, populist, and nationalist ideologies, the urgency to enable spaces to challenge the status quo by means of queer, transfeminist, antiracist, and ecological perspectives is now more acute than ever. This exhibition departs from “uncommonality” as a shared condition and taps into its potential for resistance and self-determination. Through knowledge exchange, worker’s solidarity, and collaborative artistic practices, Werker Collective advocates for the abolition of oppressive systems and imagines their replacement.



Photography by Gunnar Meier, courtesy of RADIUS.

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