Art Palm Beach +Contemporary
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Blvd.
West Palm Beach, Florida, 33401
Booth 605
Opening Night Premiere
Wednesday, January 22, 5 – 9 pm
General Admission
Thursday, January 23 – Sunday, January 26, 11 am – 6pm
Sundaram Tagore Gallery will be presenting work by a global group of artists including, Karen Knorr, at Art Palm Beack +Contemporary from 22 – 26 January, 2025.
Karen Knorr is selling prints on Instagram for LA Fireman’s Relief and Grief and Hope on GoFundMe. The first print sale has sold out and raised £3000 for these causes and there will be a second print available next week.
The exhibition Fables and Other Stories, unveils a selection of Karen Knorr’s most recent photographs. Her latest series are like testimonies of History or reflections of cultural traditions. The artist weaves scenes where architecture and animals meet in powerful and poetic compositions. Behind her new creations, the artist invites us to reflect on the world, to decipher hidden messages and to apprehend reality from multiple facets.
The India Song series captures the vibrant soul of India, between ancestral rites and modern heritages. In Fables, the artist plays with the codes of propriety of prestigious French places. Scavi takes us to the remains of Pompeii, exploring archaeology as a metaphor for time that erases and reveals. Finally, Monogatari immerses us in a dreamlike universe of Japanese tales.
Each image is a journey, a visual tale where art and culture come to life through photographs that question, amaze and fascinate.
It has been a busy year for Karen Knorr Studio, with lots of highlights. Spring saw the release of two brand new monographs, Connoisseurs & Academies published by Kehrer and Country Life, published by Stanley/Barker. These two monographs showcased important early works from the 1980s to the early 2000s and were launched at Photo London this year.
In September, Karen Knorr’s major solo exhibition, Intersections opened at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. On view for the first time in New York were select works from Knorr’s brand-new series Scavi (2023–2024). The exhibition also featured recent additions to India Song (2008–2023) and Fables (2003–2022) alongside historical analog photographs from Knorr’s groundbreaking work from the 1980s and ’90s.
This year’s Paris Photo was also very exciting, with Knorr exhibiting works from Connoisseurs (1986–1990) and Country Life (1983–1985) at the fair with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art.
Danziger Gallery is pleased to be participating in the 21st edition of the UNTITLED Art Fair in Miami Beach. The fair runs from Wednesday 4 December to Sunday 8 December, the same week as Art Basel Miami.
This year the gallery is bringing the work of 22 different artists and will be exhibiting Karen Knorr’s The Return of the Hunter, Chandra Mahal, Jaipur Palace, Jaipur, 2012 from the series India Song (2008–2023). For the first time they will also be showing work by Gordon Cheung, Shepard Fairey, Llyn Foulkes, Annie Kevans, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Abelardo Morell, Lee-Ann Olwage, and Alec Soth.
Karen Knorr’s India Song celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. Interiors are painstakingly photographed with a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera and scanned to very high resolution.
Tate Britain
The 80s: Photographing Britain
21 November 2024–5 May 2025
A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen (1981–1983) are included in Tate Britain’s newest exhibition, The 80s: Photographing Britain, which opens today! This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications – creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.
At the time, photography was used as a tool for social change, political activism, and artistic and photographic experiments. See powerful images that gave voice and visibility to underrepresented groups in society. This includes work depicting the Black arts movement, queer experience, South Asian diaspora and the representation of women in photography.
The photographic works Gentlemen (1981–1983), photographed in English gentlemen’s clubs in Saint James’ in central London, consider the patriarchal values of the English upper middle classes
Paris Photo 2024
Grand Palais, Paris
7–10 November 2024
Les Filles du Calvaire, Booth C31
Augusta Edwards Fine Art, Booth B40
Karen Knorr is present and exhibiting works from Connoisseurs (1986–1990) and Country Life (1983–1985) at Paris Photo this week with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art, as well as participating in two book signings (further details below).
On view for the first time with Les Filles du Calvaire (Booth C31) will be a new limited edition release of 17 photographsfrom Connoisseurs. Meanwhile, Augusta Edwards Fine Art (Booth B40) will be exhibiting a selection of works from Country Life. Make sure to also keep an eye out for Karen Knorr’s Pleasure of the Imagination, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England, 1986 (from the series Connoisseurs), which has been selected for J.P. Morgan’s Curators’ Highlights at Paris Photo! Their selection of works will be highlighted at the fair and on the visitors’ map.
A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen (1981–1983) will be included in the upcoming Tate Britain exhibition, The 80s: Photographing Britain, opening 21 November 2024. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications – creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.
The photographic works Gentlemen (1981–1983), photographed in English gentlemen’s clubs in Saint James’ in central London, consider the patriarchal values of the English upper middle classes with text constructed out of speeches of parliament and news. The complete series of 26 images and texts investigate the values that ally these classes to conservative aristocratic values where primogeniture is still an issue in a country symbolically ruled by a constitutional monarchy.
“I wanted to make work that used irony and parody in which to explore attitudes prevalent amongst the English establishment in the 1980’s.
Estampa
with Galería Blanca Berlín, Spain
Madrid
17–20 October 2024
A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s new Scavi (2023–2024) series are be available to view in Booth 5B01 at Estampa art fair in Madrid with Galería Blanca Berlín, Spain.
Specialising in photography and the visual arts, Blanca Berlín focuses on the most innovative trends in Spanish and international contemporary photography by established artists and mid-career or emerging talents. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has become a benchmark for the classical and contemporary photography market.
Plus upcoming:
Paris Photo 2024
Grand Palais, Paris
7–10 November 2024
Karen Knorr will be present and exhibiting works from Connoisseurs (1986–1990) and Country Life (1983–1985) at the upcoming Paris Photo with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art, as well as participating in two book signings.
On view for the first time with Les Filles du Calvaire (Booth C31) will be a new limited edition release of 17 photographs from Connoisseurs. Printed on historic cibachrome paper, which has since been discontinued, the works are available in an edition of only 1/1 + 1 AP. The release also accompanies Knorr’s newly published Connoisseurs & Academies publication with Kehrer.
Augusta Edwards Fine Art (Booth B40) will be exhibiting a selection of works from Country Life,