Tokyo Gendai Art Fair
with Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Pacifico Yokohama
11–14 September 2025
Booth B07

Works from Karen Knorr’s Monogatari (2012–2017) series are on view at Tokyo Gendai Art Fair with Sundaram Tagore Gallery! Find them on Booth B07.

Launched in July 2023, Tokyo Gendai presents leading contemporary art galleries from Japan, the wider Asia-Pacific region and around the world. This year, the third edition is being held at PACIFICO Yokohama from 12–14 September 2025 (VIP Preview and Vernissage on 11 September, by invitation).

Taking place in one of the most dynamic cities in the world and accompanied by extensive programs centred on art awareness and education, Tokyo Gendai is a platform for commercial, artistic and intellectual exchange, and a nexus of cross-cultural discovery.

25th Anniversary Exhibition
at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
5 September–4 October 2025

Reception: Thursday 18 September, 6–8pm

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Sundaram Tagore Gallery is pleased to present a wide-ranging exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations. Their 25th Anniversary Exhibition includes work by more than thirty artists—from those who have been with the gallery since its founding in 2000 to those they have partnered with more recently.

When Sundaram opened his first gallery on Greene Street in SoHo in 2000, his mission was to show that some of the best, most meaningful art was being created by artists deeply engaged in cross-cultural explorations. He began focusing on diasporic artists and those from underrepresented cultures outside Europe and the United States, with the aim of bringing them to the forefront. Crossing cultural and national boundaries, these artists synthesized Western visual languages with forms, techniques, and philosophies from Asia, the Subcontinent, and the Middle East.

Considering Boiler Venting
A+B Gallery, Brescia, Italy
16 July – 27 September 2025

Karen Knorr is pleased to be included Considering Boiler Venting, a group exhibition opening 16 July at A+B Gallery in Brescia. On view will be The Opium Smoker, Chitrasala, Bundi, 2017 from India Song and Minerva’s Owl, Palagonia, 2015 from Metamorphoses. The exhibition will also feature works by Linda Carrara, Alwin Lay, Tiziano Martini, Andrea Mirabelli, Markus Saile, The Cool Couple.

Considering Boiler Venting is conceived as a space for releasing tension, similar to a safety valve, responding to the current acceleration of technology. The works — ranging from painting to photography, from objects to digital elaborations — reflect a widespread state of anxiety without being overwhelmed by it. The tension remains constantly active but is regulated by the artists’ skills, who achieve their poetic goals without renouncing the use of openly technological tools.

U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox and Karen Knorr

Opening at Les Rencontres d’Arles
Palais de l’Archevêché

7 July–5 October 2025

Plus upcoming book signings, exhibition tour and artist talk

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) opens next week at Les Rencontres d’Arles! It will be an exciting and busy launch week, with an exhibition tour, artist talk, plus two book signings. Click ‘Read More’ to see full event details.

Following in the tracks of Berenice Abbott and her colleague/assistant Damon Gadd (also accompanied by Sara Gadd), Karen Knorr and Anna Fox set out in 2016 to start a record of contemporary life along U.S. Route 1 during the age of Trump. Along the way Fox and Knorr searched for a sense of what is happening today and how that differs from what Abbott and Gadd found. Using their iPhones, digital SLRs and a Phase One medium format camera, they photographed small towns, people, drugstores, cafes, diners, hotels, motels, farms, factories, street signs and advertisements.

Exhibiting at Les Rencontres d’Arles
7 July–5 October 2025

Arles Book Launch: Librarie du Palais
Thursday 10 July, 3-4pm

London Book Launch: The Photographers’ Gallery
Thursday 24 July 2025, 6-8pm

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s upcoming publication, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), published by Trolley Books, will be launching at Librarie du Palais in Arles on 10 July, 3-4pm. It will be launched in London at The Photographers’ Gallery on 24 July, 6-8pm. Available to preorder now! The project will be exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles from 7 July–5 October 2025 at Palais de l’Archevêché.

Anna Fox and Karen Knorr set out in 2016 on a journey of friendship, adventure and collaboration stopping at motels, drugstores, cafes and Airbnb’s. Stopping, walking, getting out to meet people and explore a fractured US society in the age of Trump. Over 150 colour photographs made between 2016 and 2025 focus on small towns on this extended road trip from Key West in Florida to Fort Kent in Maine.

Photo London
Somerset House
15–18 May 2025

Works on view with Sundaram Tagore Gallery (Booth G11) & in London Lives

Tonight, 15 May:
Karen Knorr In Conversation with Rut Blees Luxemburg, hosted by Chloe Grimshaw
The House of KOKO, Camden at 7pm

Photo London‘s tenth edition opened last night at Somerset House and runs until 18 May! Karen Knorr will also be participating in a talk this evening as part of the VIP programme at The House of KOKO, Camden, 15 May, 7:00pm – 8:00pm. Karen will be in conversation with photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg. The talk will be hosted by Chloe Grimshaw, an architect, collector, and journalist.

Karen Knorr’s work will also be on view at the fair with Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Booth G11, alongside other gallery photographers, including Robert Polidori, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, and Edward Burtynsky.

Works from Belgravia (1979-81) will be on view in London Lives, Photo London‘s special exhibition to celebrate its landmark tenth edition. Curated by renowned

Photo London
Somerset House
15–18 May 2025
VIP Preview 14 May

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Booth G11
&
London Lives Exhibition

Photo London‘s tenth edition opens at Somerset House 15–18 May, with the VIP Preview on 14 May. Karen Knorr will be exhibiting at the fair with Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Booth G11, alongside other gallery photographers, including Robert Polidori, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, and Edward Burtynsky.

Works from Belgravia (1979-81) will be on view in London Lives, Photo London‘s special exhibition to celebrate its landmark tenth edition. Curated by renowned critic and author Francis Hodgson, this special anniversary presentation gathers work from over 30 artists whose creative responses to the city reflect its intensity, diversity, complexity and vibrancy.

Karen Knorr will also be participating in a talk as part of the VIP programme at The House of KOKO, Camden, 15 May, 7:00pm. Karen will be in conversation with photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg. The talk will be hosted by Chloe Grimshaw,

White Conduit Projects
8–1 June 2025
Private View 7 May, 6–8pm

Opening 8 May at White Conduit Projects in London, Shifting Perspectives showcases the work of three photographers inspired by their experiences in Japan. Karen Knorr will present selections from her ongoing Monogatari series, which has been exploring Japanese heritage and culture since 2011. Alicia Dobrucka and Olivier Richon will present works that express their sense of taste and vision through still-life photography, created during their residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) in 2016.

When we temporarily relocate to another country, the scenery of our everyday life changes dramatically, as two cultures, languages, and landscapes coexist in our consciousness. Experiencing a foreign country firsthand differs significantly from the knowledge we acquire through mass media. In this context, we connect with our new environment as individuals, rather than being defined by our origins, customs, practices, or political backgrounds. This experience creates a liminal space, free from the confines of anthropological studies, where new creative ideas can flourish. The works in this exhibition produced in “No-Place,”as defined by French philosopher Marc Ogé, are truly original and transcend the clichés of the Orient, offering valuable modern documentary insights.