‘India Song’ at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

India Song at Collaterals
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India 

Tasveer
Passage Malabar, Fort Kochi
Dates: 13th December 2016 to 29th March 2017

As part of the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Tasveer is thrilled to be showcasing a selection of works from Karen Knorr’s critically acclaimed ‘India Song’ series at a Collateral event at Passage Malabar in Fort Kochi.

India Song is a series of carefully crafted photographs that blurs the lines between reality and illusion by inserting animals into architectural spaces and heritage sites. This unexpected juxtaposition playfully subverts cultural spaces and punctures meanings traditionally associated with them, while posing questions about power, gender, colonialism and cultural appropriation through allegory.

New work from ‘Metamorphoses’ at Miami Pulse

Karen Knorr at Miami Pulse
Danziger Gallery  Dec 1-4, 2016
4601 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL, USA

Karen Knorr will be showing new work from ‘Metamorphoses’ at the Danziger Gallery.
Booth A-203

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami returns to Indian Beach Park at 46th Street and Collins Avenue. The fair will open on Thursday, December 1st with a Private Preview Brunch, 10am – 1pm, to welcome VIP guests and press for first access to new work.

‘Punks’ featured in Constellations at Tate Liverpool

Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art 
Tate Liverpool 
Albert Dock
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 4BB

November 25, 2016-November 25, 2017 

Explore the links between artists and artworks in the Tate collection, Constellations. At the heart of each constellation is a ‘trigger’ artwork, chosen for its profound and revolutionary effect on modern and contemporary art.   Surrounding the trigger works are artworks that relate to it and to each other, across time and location.

Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon’s photographs of ‘Punks’ appear in the George Grosz Room

Sean O’Hagan’s review of ‘Gentlemen’ book at The Observer

The Observer / The Guardian, October 31 2016
Sean O’ Hagan
Gentlemen by Karen Knorr review – eminently clubbable
“It is this conceptually driven play of image and words that makes Gentlemen such a mischievous meditation on the sanctity – and absurdity – of these male institutions and the people that inhabit them. The portraits and the texts are not what they initially seem, the former being art-directed by Knorr to be both “natural” and revealing, the latter being constructed from parliamentary speeches of the time, as well as quotations from contemporary news reports. The end result is a kind of visual and linguistic mimicry that echoes, sometimes directly, sometimes obliquely, the language, values and beliefs of the English aristocracy. Among them is the belief in primogeniture – the right by law of the firstborn son rather than daughter to inherit the parent’s estate. Being born male, then, is, as Knorr suggests, the first privilege from which all others flow.”

You can read the full text HERE

‘Gentlemen’ Book Signing during Paris Photo

Recently published by Stanley/Barker book Gentlemen will be launched and signed by Karen Knorr

at Eric Franck / Augusta Edwards Booth (C34) 
Paris Photo, Grand Palais
on Thursday, November 10th, at 3:30pm
&
Yvon Lambert bookshop
108 rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris
on Saturday, November 12th, from 6:30-7:30pm

The selection of the prints from this series will be exhibited at Eric Franck / Augusta Edwards (Booth C34).

Karen Knorr with Tasveer at Paris Photo

Tasveer Arts at Paris Photo 
10-13 November
Booth B03

This year at Paris Photo, Tasveer will present a selection of artworks that explore the history of creative photographic manipulation in India and highlight the fusion of photography and painting traditions. Alongside a selection of Manorath paintings, Tasveer will show work by Jyoti Bhatt, Karen Knorr, Flor Garduño and Waswo X. Waswo, which examines the transformative nature of the photographic medium.

Gentlemen book by Stanley/Barker

Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen, published this September by STANLEY/BARKER in collaboration with Eric Franck Fine Art, takes us inside the hallowed halls of the most venerable private gentlemen’s clubs of 1980s London, and considers the patriarchal values of the English upper classes with beautifully precise photographs and texts constructed out of speeches of parliament and the news at that time.

The complete series of 26 images and texts investigate the values that ally these classes to conservative aristocratic values where primogeniture (the right by law of the rstborn son to inherit his parent’s estate, in preference to daughters) is still an issue. Until the early 1970’s a married women still needed her husband’s endorsement for any household purchases. Whilst women now have full property rights, they still remain under-represented in key positions of governance and in nancial and academic worlds. It is still a boys club in which some women are honorary members.

More details and pre-order is here

Karen Knorr at symposium in Braga

KAREN KNORR at the symposium “RETHINKING PHOTOGRAPHY: Can Photography Make a Change?”
MUSEU NOGUEIRA DA SILVA
BRAGA, PORTUGAL

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016, FROM 10AM

“Rethinking Photography” aims to give space for the discovery of ideas that define the contemporary thought, through the presence of artists from several territories of photography. Artists, historians and curators review the place of photography nowadays and, through their speeches, we will get to know the cultural and scientific practices that help us to think about the current representations of photography and the restraints in our roads to happiness. This multi- disciplinary gathering will explore topics ranging from the impact of technology in our lives, to documentary projects on the new ways of life in the pursuit of happiness, going through the autobiographical projects, all questioning the power of photography in contemporary times.
Panel: Brian Griffin, Karen Knorr, Neal Slavin Teresa Siza, Luiz Carlos Felizardo. Moderador: Rodrigo Orrantia