Karen Knorr: British Style 1970- 1980s at Multi Media Art Museum, Moscow

Karen Knorr British Style 1970- 1980s  

Multi Media Art Museum
ul. Ostozhenka, 16, Moscow, Russia, 119034

March 10 – May 8, 2016

Curated by Olga Sviblova

For the 11th Moscow Photobiennale ,Karen Knorr will be showing her 1980’s work for the first time in Russia. The solo exhibition will focus on Knorr’s early black and white work with text about London life in the 1980’s . The exhibition includies the series :Belgravia 1979- 1981 photographed in homes in Knightsbridge ,Gentlemen 1981- 1983 photographed in Saint James’ in exclusive gentlemens’ clubs and Ladies , a recent series made in 2011 using image and text which portrays international socialites, actresses and businesswomen photographed in Home House in Central London.
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Karen Knorr is part of ‘The Unbearable Lightness: The 1980s’

The Unbearable Lightness: The 1980s 

Photography, Film February 24 February – 23 May  2016 

Photography Gallery, FORUM-1, Pompidou Centre, Paris

Heterogeneous, elusive, painful, fantastical, still too close, as light-hearted as they were serious, the Eighties were full of contrasts and paradoxes. With films and photographs from its collections, the Centre Pompidou cast a fresh eye on this decade in an exhibition featuring over 20 artists and some 60 works in a completely new circuit. 

From Florence Paradeis to Jean-Paul Goude, and from Karen Knorr to Présence Panchounette by way of Martin Parr and Pierre and Gilles, the works selected mostly express criticism of culture and society through various strategies, such as irony, realistic or imaginative staging, pastiche, subverted sets and odes to artifice. The history of Eighties photography somewhat eludes comprehension even today. 

India Song at Raas Palace / Jodhpur, India

Karen Knorr: India Song at Raas Palace, Jodhpur / India

 6th February– 5th March 2016 

Tasveer is delighted to announce a new partnership with Raas, Jodhpur’s first boutique hotel that reflects in many ways, the Walled City itself.

 Situated in the prestigious north-eastern quarter of Jodhpur, in the very shade of Mehrangarh’s Victory Palace and Gate, and a stone’s throw from the Clock Tower; Raas is comprised of four charismatic buildings in Jodhpur’s very own ‘rose-red’ sandstone. The oldest, the Haveli proper as it were, was built towards the end of the 18th Century and with its delicately carved stone panels — the hall-mark of Rajput architecture — served as the exclusive and intimate residence of the family. The newest, the Baradari, is a multi-pillared, multi-purpose open Pavilion built in the 1850s.

 In these grandiose and historical surroundings, Tasveer will aptly be showing for the first in a series of regular exhibitions, Karen Knorr: India Song.

Monogatari at White Conduit Projects

IN SPRING, IT IS DAWN THAT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL / 春はあけぼの

16th January to 21 February 2016

1 White Conduit St, London N1 9EL

Yukari Sato’s breathtaking contemporary washi surrounds Karen Knorr’s photography from the new series ‘Monogatari’. Each work in combination will contribute to a truly auspicious occasion, a fresh new year’s installation at White conduit projects.

Knorr’s metaphorical photographic works evaluate Today’s Japan, and Sato’s contemporary Washi have arrived as a collaborative presentation heralding the ‘Japanese New Year’. Sato’s awe-inspiring handiwork, shown through Knorr’s feministic viewpoint, expresses an altogether new and sublime view of the world.

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India Song is part of Travel Photo Jaipur Festival

Tasveer is delighted to announce that India Song: Karen Knorr opens for the first time in Jaipur, in an appropriately regal setting at the famed Amer Fort. Forming a collateral event at Travel Photo Jaipur 2016, the show will be on view from the 5th to the 14th of February 2016.

India Song has been shown globally at museums and art fairs, winning numerous prestigious awards including a Pilar Citoler International Photography Prize and a nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

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India Song exhibition at Amethyst in Chennai with Tasveer Gallery

Karen Knorr: India Song

18 November – 1 December
Mon-Sun, 11am – 7:30pm

The Folly
at Amethyst
Entrance next to Corporation Bank
Whites Road
Royapettah, Chennai 600014

Tasveer and Amethyst are delighted to announce that India Song: Karen Knorr is now on view in Chennai for the first time, until the 1st of December 2015. For Knorr, “The series India Song celebrates the rich visual culture evident in the myths and stories of northern India, blurring the boundaries between reality and illusion. It pays homage to the extraordinary beauty and power of Rajput and Mughal architecture and the hybrid cultures represented in miniature paintings, sculptures, palaces, havelis and mausoleums, and also folk and tribal art.”

Paris Photo: Karen Knorr in conversation with Carole Naggar

PARIS PHOTO / MUSEE D’ORSAY
KAREN KNORR WITH CAROLE NAGGAR

Auditorium of musée d’Orsay 

Sunday 15 November 2015 , 11:30am

During the exhibition Who is Afraid of Women Photographers? – celebrating women photographers’ achievements from 1839- 1945 at Musee D’Orsay and The Museum of the Orangeries has invited two international photographers photographers to reflect upon their photographic work in relation to past women photographers work .

Susan Meiselas will be speaking with Carole Naggar on Saturday November14 at 12:00
and Karen Knorr on November 15 at 12:00

Solo exhibition at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire

MONOGATARI EXHIBITION
GALERIE LES FILLES DU CALVAIRE / PARIS
Karen Knorr’s exhibition MONOGATARI 
at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
October 30 – November 28
A selection of work will be on display also at Paris Photo.

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
17 rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, 75003 Paris
Tel. : +33 (0)1 42 74 47 05
paris@fillesducalvaire.com
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 6:30pm
More details are on gallery’s website.

New book ‘Belgravia’ published by Stanley/Barker is out!

Published by Stanley/Barker, 2015

Karen Knorr’s Belgravia, describes through images and accompanying quotes, class and power amongst the international and wealthy during the beginning of Thatcherism in London.

Produced between 1979 and 1981 the images are now available for the first time in a beautiful artists monograph. Measuring 35 x 28 cm, printed on heavy stock and housed in a protective transparent jacket, the work describes the ‘everyday’ of a privileged minority, and whilst historically, portraiture of the upper classes has tended to be flattering, the combination of portraits and quotes from the subjects recorded during their sessions, brings Knorr’s work closer to satire.

Limited edition of 1000.

Special edition of 35 (Clamshell Box set with a print).