Exhibitions

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.

Karen Knorr to take part in exhibition on architecture at Holden Luntz Gallery

Architecture: Places Transformed Through Time

11 January–5 February 2020
Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach, FL 33480
USA

“Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.” – I. M. Pei

The oldest surviving product of a photographic process, the first known photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, presents a fascinating insight into one of humanity’s well-established curiosities early on in the history of photography, the importance of recording the constructed environment. Throughout artistic mediums, the subject of architecture has framed the narratives and developments of some of history’s most defining moments.

Karen Knorr joins Ridiculous! at Elephant West

Ridiculous! Group Exhibition at Elephant West

9 January-2 February 2020
Elephant West
62 Wood Lane
London W12 7RH

Nearest Tube station: White City

Karen Knorr  will be exhibiting works from The Lanesborough series at Elephant West in London. “The Lanesborough” (once a hospital closed in the 1990’s) is one of the most expensive hotels in the world, where the wealthy 1% strive to live the celebrity lifestyle. Rooms come with butlers and the hotel is a themed fantasy palace where the special few can find happiness and fulfil all their desires of a perfect weekend in London.