Zona Maco
with Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City
5–9 February 2025
Booth E105

10 on Paper
Celebrating 10 years of Matèria
Matèria, Rome
13 February–17 April 2025

Karen Knorr’s work is currently on view at Zona Maco in Mexico City with Sundaram Tagore Gallery until 9 February 2025. Coming up later in February is 10 on Paper which celebrates 10 years of Matèria. The Principles of Political Economy from Capital (1990-91) will be on view and Karen will be present in Rome for the opening on 13 February.

UNTITLED Art Fair 
Danziger Gallery, Booth B35
Miami Beach, Florida
4–8 December 2024

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.

Tate Britain

The 80s: Photographing Britain

21 November 2024–5 May 2025

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.