Upcoming Solo Exhibitions
Château d’Azay-le-Rideau and Château d’Oiron

Curated by Claude d’Anthenaise, supported by Les Filles du Calvaire

15 June – 1 November 2026 (PV: 26 June 2026)

In celebration of the bicentenary of photography, Karen Knorr’s upcoming retrospective at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau, curated by Claude d’Anthenaise and supported by Les Filles du Calvaire, opens 15 June – 1 November 2026 (PV 26 June 2026). Also on view at the same time will be an exhibition of Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon’s series Punks (1977) at Château d’Oiron.

The exhibition at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau will feature over forty photographs spanning from the 1970’s to the present day. Built during the reign of Francis I by Gilles Berthelot, the king’s financier, the château of Azay-le-Rideau presents a subtle alliance of French traditions and innovative decorations from Italy. It has become an icon of the new art of building in the Loire Valley in the 16th century, and is today considered one of the jewels of early French Renaissance architecture.

On view at the Château d’Oiron will be works from Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon’s Punks series. From 1976 to 1977, Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon documented the London punk scene revolving around the Roxy in Covent Garden and the Global Village in Charing Cross. The first prints from the series were originally presented at The Photographers’ Gallery in 1978, and featured many years later, in 2012, at Tate Britain in the retrospective titled Another London.