Karen Knorr au Musée Delacroix
PhotoSaintGermain
6 November 2026 – 3 January 2027

**5 November: open until 5pm today, evening viewing cancelled due to strike action**

9 November 2026, 6:30 – 8:30pm:
Guided tour with Karen Knorr

In dialogue with the exhibition, Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals, and as part of PhotoSaintGermain, the Musée Delacroix will present a selection of Karen Knorr’s photographs from her series India Song (2010–2023), which feature animals depicted by the painter: wild cats, horses, and peacocks. Blending observed animals with places rich in memory, the works of Eugène Delacroix and Karen Knorr create beautiful imaginary encounters. Please note that the opening which was due to take place today, has been cancelled due to strike action.

Karen will be present on 9 November from 6.30 – 8:30pm to lead a guided visit, free for anyone with a ticket for the museum that day. Her work explores the complex relationships between heritage, power, myth, and culture through a body of photographic work in which animals inhabit places steeped in history.

Manchester Art Fair
White Conduit Projects, Booth 114
19–22 November 2026

Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester
 

A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s Monogatari (2012–2017) will be on view at Manchester Art Fair with White Conduit Projects on Booth 114. Karen is also delighted to be releasing 10 special editions from the series India Song (2010–2023), each 26.5 x 33 cm, and in a limited edition of 20 + 2 AP. For further details, please get in touch with info@whiteconduitprojects.uk

Manchester Art Fair is the UK’s leading independent art fair outside London. Held annually in the heart of the city, the fair attracts thousands of engaged visitors and has built a strong reputation for high-quality contemporary and modern art.

Starting in 2012, Monogatari imagines animal life and Japanese cultural heritage, referencing Buddhist Jataka tales and Japanese folktales of the supernatural, such as Kaidan and Shinto kami (spirits). Photographed in temples, shrines, ryokans, and gardens across Kyoto, Nara, Ise, and Tokyo, animals and women in traditional kimono evoke Edo-period screen art.

Paris Photo
Les filles du calvaire, Booth D32
Grand Palais, Paris
11–15 November 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to be exhibiting works from the series Academies (1994–2005) at the upcoming Paris Photo with Les filles du calvaire on booth D32. Karen will be present at the fair. In dialogue with works by Todd Hido, Kourtney Roy, and Charles Fréger, the presentation will be structured around the notions of portrait, silhouette, and the staging of presence. These three paradigms, central to each artist’s practice, become the vehicles of an unstable presence—at times clearly embodied, at others only perceptible through light, shadow, or trace. Between apparition, staging, and withdrawal, the works explore the thresholds of the visible and the ways in which the subject is constructed within the image.

Academies interrogates the history of ideas that underpin western aesthetics. Within the spaces of the Royal Academy Schools in London, the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, and the Repin Institute in St Petersburg, Knorr reflects upon the relationship between the production of western art in the academy and the transmission and reproduction of such ideas through the museum.

Karen Knorr au Musée Delacroix
PhotoSaintGermain
5 November 2026 – 3 January 2027

9 November 2026, 6:30 – 8:30pm:
Guided tour and book signing with Karen Knorr

Musée national Eugène Delacroix, 6, rue de Furstemberg, 75006 Paris

In dialogue with the exhibition, Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals, and as part of PhotoSaintGermain, the Musée Delacroix will present a selection of Karen Knorr’s photographs from her series India Song (2010–2023), which feature animals depicted by the painter: wild cats, horses, and peacocks. Blending observed animals with places rich in memory, the works of Eugène Delacroix and Karen Knorr create beautiful imaginary encounters. Karen will be present on 9 November from 6.30 – 8:30pm to lead a guided visit, free for anyone with a ticket for the museum that day, followed by a book signing.

Karen Knorr explores the complex relationships between heritage, power, myth, and culture through a body of photographic work in which animals inhabit places steeped in history.

PhotoSaintGermain with Musée Delacroix
5 November 2026 – 3 January 2027
Musée national Eugène Delacroix, 6, rue de Furstemberg, 75006 Paris

9 November 2026, 6:30 – 8:30pm:
Guided tour with Karen Knorr and Book Signing

In dialogue with the exhibition, Delacroix, Horses and Other Animals, and as part of PhotoSaintGermain, the Musée Delacroix will present a selection of Karen Knorr’s photographs featuring animals depicted by the painter: wild cats, horses, and peacocks. Blending observed animals with places rich in memory, the works of Eugène Delacroix and Karen Knorr create beautiful imaginary encounters.

Karen will be present on 9 November from 6.30pm – 8:30pm to lead a guided visit, free for anyone with a ticket for the museum that day, followed by a book signing.

Pan Amsterdam with Crossover Gallery
1 – 8 November 2026
Amsterdam RAI, Hall 8, Europaplein, 1078 GZ Amsterdam

 
Karen Knorr is delighted to be exhibiting a selection of works from her series Scavi (2023–2026) at the upcoming Pan Amsterdam art fair with Crossover Gallery.

Pan Amsterdam returns to the RAI in this November for its 39th edition. Crossover Gallery (The Hague/Taipei) will be exhibiting Karen Knorr’s photographs alongside works by Maarten & Billie Slagboom, Jan C. Schlegel, Lode Laperre, and Bas Meeuws.

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

Karen Knorr Inhabits the Castle is currently on view at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau in France, curated by Claude d’Anthenaise and supported by Les Filles du Calvaire. Karen Knorr will be present at the official opening celebrations taking place early October (rescheduled from the summer due to extreme heat). 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, her images questioning the way in which places shape identities and behaviours.