Unruly – The Body in Punk
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
27 June – 13 December 2026

Karen Knorr Inhabits the Castle
Château d’Azay-le-Rideau, France
13 June – 1 November 2026

Karen Knorr Inhabits the Castle is on view now at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau in France, curated by Claude d’Anthenaise and supported by Les Filles du Calvaire. Spanning over forty years of photographs, the retrospective is presented as part of the celebrations marking the Bicentenary of Photography, organised by the Ministry of Culture, in partnership with the Centre des monuments nationaux.

Since the late 1970’s, Karen Knorr has been exploring the relationship between the home and its inhabitants. From the hushed interiors of London’s middle classes, where the decor becomes a silent portrait of those who inhabit it, to museums and cultural institutions, her images question the way in which places shape identities and behaviours.

On the Road
Sundaram Tagore Gallery
542 W 26th St, New York
16 July – 28 August 2026

Works from Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s collaborative series U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) will be on view in Sundaram Tagore Gallery‘s upcoming exhibition in their New York space, On the Road. Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel, this group photography exhibition conveys stories of everyday life through the unique physical and metaphorical lens of each artist.

The exhibition will feature Edward Burtynsky’s historic work Breezewood, Pennsylvania (2008), which was showcased in his 2025 solo show The Great Acceleration at the International Center of Photography in New York. Alongside are images by Karen Knorr in collaboration with artist Anna Fox from their series and book  U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), which features 150 photographs taken in small towns from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine, between 2016 and 2025.

Hybridity and Belonging in Contemporary Art
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, London
27 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5LP
Closes 20 June 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to be included in Sundaram Tagore Gallery‘s inaugural exhibition in their new London gallery at 27 Pall Mall. The 3,337-square-foot gallery is situated on the ground floor of an Edwardian-style landmark building designed in 1902. It encompasses two floors of exhibition space, a private viewing room, and space for events including film screenings, panel discussions, and live performance—an important facet of the gallery’s programming.

Hybridity and Belonging in Contemporary Art brings together artists from and inspired by Asia whose work explores hybridity, displacement, nostalgia, and the refusal to be confined by a singular identity. Crossing cultural and national boundaries, the artists in this exhibition synthesize Eastern and Western visual languages, forms, techniques, and philosophies.

Upcoming Exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles

Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography
Curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer
La Mécanique Générale (Fondation LUMA)
6 July – 4 October 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to share that three works from her series Scavi (2023–2024) will be on view in the upcoming group exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles at La Mécanique Général (Fondation LUMA) in Arles, France. Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography will then travel to Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, opening 4 December 2026 – 4 April 2027.

Companion, research subject, symbol, mirror, or fantasy, animals have never left the photographers’ frame since the invention of the medium. Animal Model offers an immersion into two centuries of images that reveal how photography has shaped our view of animals and profoundly influenced the ways we love, exploit, or defend them.

Unruly – The Body in Punk
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
27 June – 13 December 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to share that eight works from Punks, her 1977 collaborative series with Olivier Richon, will be showcased in Denmark for ARoS’ upcoming exhibition, Unruly – The Body in Punk.

Featuring around 130 works, the exhibition traces punk’s origins in 1970’s London and shows how the movement spread and changed – with a special focus on Berlin’s subcultures. Pain, wildness, imagination. Energy, boldness, defiance. Punks used the body as a form of resistance against discipline and societal norms imposed by a world they saw as already collapsing. In punk, bodily expression was political.

30 Years and More
Les Filles du Calvaire
21 Rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
23 May – 20 June 2026

From 23 May – 20 June, Les Filles du Calvaire celebrates more than thirty years of commitment to contemporary creation. Yet this exhibition does not look back on a completed journey; rather, it affirms a living continuity. 30 Years and More is not a retrospective. It is a statement of intent, that of a gallery whose purpose is to support artists and promote contemporary artistic practices. Karen Knorr’s collaboration with the gallery dates back to 1999, first showing with the gallery branch in Brussels.

Through one work by each artist, the exhibition brings together those who today embody the history and identity of the gallery. 30 Years and More reflects a long-standing dialogue between the gallery and the artists, emerging and established, whom it accompanies. This sustained relationship, nourished by experimentation and risk-taking, reflects the gallery’s enduring commitment to contemporary art in all its forms, and particularly to the French scene, which it helps bring to wider visibility both nationally and internationally.