I will be opening up my studio to the public and have hung the series Connoisseurs (1986-1989 ).
This colour work made in the mid to late 1980’s, a humorous and ironic view on the geneology of the English museum and its links to the developing heritage industryin London in the 1980’s. The photographic series begins in Burlington’s Chiswick House (English Heritage) and uses sites such as The Soane Museum at the Lincoln Inn Fields home of Sir John Soane, The Dulwich Picture Gallery, Osterley Park House and the “fake” plaster cast room of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (currently under restoration).
Exhibitions
Another London July 27- September 27
A unique set of black white vintage Punks photographed by Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon in 1977 will be exhibited in Tate Britain as part of Another London
Tate Britain will hold an exhibition of 180 classic twentieth-century photographs which take London as their key subject. In the years between 1930 and 1980,some of the best-known photographers from around the world came to London to make work about the city and its communities. This exhibition will bring together some of the biggest names in international photography, to explore the ways photographers, for whom London was a foreign city which they either visited briefly or settled in permanently, saw and represented the subject in their own unique and distinctive ways.
Retrospective at University of Cordoba closes March 23 2012
Karen Knorr exhibited 40 works at Puerta Nueva in Cordoba Spain to mark the publication of a 240 page catalogue of her work including her first series Punks made jointly with Olivier Richon in 1976-1977. The catalogue is distributed internationally by Fabrica. Essays by Kathy Kubicki and Quentin Bajac contextualise Knorr’s work.