Exhibitions

Print/Process/Repeat at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea NY 

Print/Process/Repeat
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea NY
Opens 11 March

Sundaram Tagore are pleased to present and exhibition of work by gallery artists explores the relationship between the artist and prints and multiples.

For Karen Knorr and Kim Joon, who both utilize digital technology, the print is the final product of their labor and creativity. Their multiples are perfect in their exact likeness. Karen Knorr seamlessly merges her meticulous photographs, often taken with a large-format analogue camera, with digital technology to create surrealistic images. Kim Joon constructs fantastical compositions with computer software that he brings to life in a digital print. Other artists included in the exhibition include: Ghiora Aharoni, Kamolpan Chotvichai, Miya Ando, Ricardo Mazal, Susan Weil and Shirin Neshat

Sundaram Tagore Gallery
547 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Closing 11 March: Sotheby’s Auction Including 4 India Song Works

Illuminations and Phenomena Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea NY

Illuminations and Phenomena
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea NY
Closes 27 February

Sundaram Tagore are pleased to present painting, sculpture and photography by artists who use light as a medium. These artists draw on light’s unique properties to define form, challenge visual perceptions and create extraordinary sensory experiences.

London-based photographer Karen Knorr creates sumptuous, layered imagery using her keen understanding of natural light to transform historic architectural settings in Asia and Western Europe into luminous environments, where the line between reality and illusion is blurred.

Pakistani-American artist Anila Agha laser cuts elaborate patterns into metal to create immersive large-scale light installations. When lit from within, they cast mesmerizing floor-to-ceiling shadows that transform the surrounding environment. 

Once Only Window Installation at White Conduit Projects in London

Once Only Only Once
White Conduit Projects, London N1 9EL
28 December 2020–14 February 2021

With the UK entering a third lockdown and galleries closed to the public, photographs from Karen Knorr’s series Monogatari will be exhibited in a window installation at White Conduit Projects in London.

Visible from the street, Karen Knorr’s works from Once Only Only Once which are undertaken in Daitoki-ji’s Obai-in temple in Japan. The translated title, “Ichi-go ichi-e” describes a cultural concept of treasuring meetings with people. The phrase means that each encounter happens only once in a lifetime and we should be grateful for every second of our lives with peace of mind.

Full details of the unique tray-framed edition available from White Conduit Projects is available for download from the Kyoto Projects section of the gallery’s website.

Karen Knorr: Babylon at F I L E T, London

 Karen Knorr: Babylon
PUBLIKA FENESTRO, F I L E T
103 Murray Grove, London N1 7QP
14:30–18:00, 23–28 November 2020

Babylon from Karen Knorr’s Questions (After Brecht) is now on-view as part of F I L E T’s Publika Finestro series of installations viewable from the street at 103 Murray Grove, near Old Street in London. F I L E T is a space for experimental art production founded by Rut Blees Luxemburg and Uta Kögelburger. Based in London, in close proximity to the ‘digital roundabout’, F I L E T is a physical research organ that provides a platform for production, dissemination discourse of contemporary art.

Question (After Brecht) published by GOST Books is now available to order via GOSTand Karen Knorr’s website. Karen Knorr photographed the building site of the disused Parisian Art-Deco Department store, La Samaritaine, in the summers of 2017 and 2018. In this new book, the resulting photographs, transformed with solarisation and infused with playful fantasy and surrealism are accompanied by lines from Brecht’s poem: Questions from a Worker Who Reads (1935). The book includes an email interview with David Campany.

Inherent Beauty Opens at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Singapore

Inherent Beauty: Photographers Who Change How We See the World
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 9 October – 21 November

Head to Sundaram Tagore for an exhibition of work by six world-renowned photographers. They deeply engage with the environment and contemporary social issues. Each of them create compelling visual narratives that explore our shared humanity and convey the beauty in diversity and in the natural world.

Sebastião Salgado and Steve McCurry share a photojournalistic approach, recording human struggle and the impact of conflict and globalisation. Karen Knorr’s intricate images use ancient myths and allegories to frame issues of entrenched social constructs. Lalla Essaydi and Robert Polidori explore the human condition through intimate examinations of spaces, both real and symbolic. Edward Burtynsky photographs industrial landscapes around the world, showing the devastating impact of manufacturing and human consumption.

Photo London Digital

Photo London Digital, 7–18 October

Karen Knorr is exhibiting a number of works as part of Photo London Digital with Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Danziger Gallery, Augusta Edwards Fine Art and HI-NOON. Knorr’s up-coming monograph Questions (After Brecht) will be launched online by publisher GOST Books. Photo London Digital is the first international photography fair online and will take place on a platform built by the Fair’s digital partner, Artsy, and accessible both from the Photo London website and Artsy’s.

Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad, Founders of Photo London, comment: ‘Photo London Digital builds on the outstanding achievements of the first five editions of the Fair that have created an unparalleled annual international photography event in London – the much-heralded Photo London week. As ever, our exhibitors and the artists that they will showcase over the fourteen days of the Fair, lie at the heart of Photo London. No matter where they come from our exhibitors present a stunning roster of brilliantly innovative artists and works – from the early experiments with the medium to the masters of the form and beyond them to contemporary work that pushes at the boundaries of photography’

Fox Talbot Retrospective in Italy

The first major William Henry Fox Talbot retrospective in Italy ‘L’IMPRONTA DEL REALE’ opens this week at Gallerie Estensi Modena in collaboration with FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive. Curated by Silvia Urbini and Chiara Dall’Olio, the exhibition includes two key works by Karen Knorr from the series Academies (1994–2005). Other artists include the Italian photography pioneers Paolo Gioli and Mario Cresci.

12 September 2020–10 January 2021
Gallerie Estensi Modena, Italy

Masculinities at the Barbican Reopens and Summer Update

Karen Knorr continues helping to support charities such as Support in Mind (Scotland) and Artist Support Pledge initiative giving back to artists and to Artist Support Pledge itself to help it develop further projects supporting the art community.

These last weeks Karen has been working on more images from her India Song series completing a further two with two white tigers which she photographed in animal sanctuaries in India. As she puts it on her instagram account @karen1knorr  “I have been working on  of this ‘Hall of Mirrors’ in Amer Fort. Last January. It took two hours attempting to get the shot without the use of tripod no main feat with crowds pushing. I must have held my breath to steady the shot and later tried to imagine a tiger’s breath which is also a yoga position called prana  breathing where one has to be performed on all fours.”Masculinities Reopens to the Public at the Barbican in London

The Barbican recently reopened to the public, all visitors have to book tickets in advance and wear a mask at all times. For information about booking a ticket and the safety measures the Barbican has implemented because of corona virus please visit their website. 

Karen Knorr Included in 30 Years of Women

30 Years of Women
7 February–11 April
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Opening Reception: 7 February, 6-8pm

Jackson Fine Art is excited to kick off our thirtieth anniversary year with upcoming exhibitions celebrating women at work — as artists, curators, gallerists. Drawing from Jackson Fine Art’s thirty-year history of showing some of the most distinguished female voices in 20th and 21st century photography, Jackson and Skillman have co-curated a show illustrative of the gallery’s evolving vision and the strong female relationships that have defined Jackson Fine Art through the years. In the viewing room, Skillman looks forward with a selection of photographs from some of the most important artists of our contemporary moment. The group show of works is selected by gallery founder Jane Jackson and current owner Anna Walker Skillman.

Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen Series Included in Major Exhibition on Masculinities

Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography
20 February–17 May
Barbican Art Gallery, London

In Conversation:
Karen Knorr, Anna Fox and Sabina Jaskot-Gill
Thursday 26 March, 7pm

Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.

Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the Barbican brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and filmmakers including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine Opie.