‘India Song’ is part of an exhibition at Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery (Massachusetts, USA)

EXHIBITION ‘SEEING THE ELEPHANT’

Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery (September 28 – December 5, 2015)

Curated by Lisa Tung, Director of Curatorial Programs.

The Indian story of the blind men and the elephant tells of earnest, observant individuals trying to describe something. Each of them probes one part of an elephant and gives his description. The result is a wildly diverse range of properties from the ear to the legs, tail, and tusk. All are true yet they hardly coalesce and often conflict.

This is an apt parable for those documenting and drawing inspiration from India, a country that has long been a subject for artists, writers, and scholars fascinated by the nation’s colors, complexities, and contrasts. It is ancient and modern, agrarian and industrial, connected and self-contained.

Karen’s work is part of a summer show at Danziger gallery

JULY 7 – AUGUST 21
521 West 23rd Street
New York, New York 10011  USA

Karen’s work is part of the show at Danziger Gallery. For their 25th summer show, the gallery is presenting a group show of gallery artists that looks at the way much of today’s photography can be both wonderful – and a lie. Through the use of Photoshop, digital printing, and the increasing movement of the medium towards the subjective – photographers are more than ever constructing, conceptualizing, and experimenting with process and scale. Rather than being a medium dedicated to observing and recording the world as it appears before the camera, much of the most interesting work being done today deals with innovative ideas and fictions.

Book Singing at Grimaldi Gavin gallery, July 16th

KAREN KNORR: INDIA SONG
BOOK SIGNING

16 July 2015, 6 – 8pm

Grimaldi Gavin Gallery

27 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4DW

Karen will be signing copies of her new book India Song, published by Skira. Knorr began her ‘India Song’ series in 2008, after a life-changing trip through Rajasthan. The resulting images take inspiration from the Indian tradition of personifying animals in literature and art, depicting scenarios that are at once otherworldly and surreal. Knorr’s work explores Rajput and Mughal cultural heritage and its contemporary relationship to questions of feminine subjectivity and animality. Please email RSVP@grimaldigavin.com if you would like to attend.

‘Gentlemen’ series is part of the touring exhibition ‘Work, Rest and Play’

WORK, REST AND PLAY: BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1960S TO TODAY
Touring Exhibition:

May 9 – July 12, 2015 at OCT Loft, Shenzhen China

July 12 – August 23, 2015 at Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanhai

The Photographers’ Gallery, London in collaboration with The Pin Projects, Beijing OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen and with support from the British Council present Work, Rest and Play: British Photography from the 1960s to Today. Featured as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, this will be the first touring exhibition in China solely devoted to British photography. It explores the diversity of fifty years of British Photography, revealing the quirks of a national character and the traditions which fed into its everyday life.

Karen’s work is in ‘Rights of Passage’ curated by Jean Wainwright

VENICE AGENDAS 2015: CROSSING BOUNDARIES 
Border Line: Rights of Passage, curated by Jean Wainwright
Wednesday 6 May–Friday 8 May, 11–12h

A unique performative publication event. 100 individual art books assembled from 24 signed prints by 24 international artists; each book is made to order and available to purchase. The artists include: Martina Bacigalupo, Roger Ballan, Behrnd Behr, Valerie Belin, Adam Chodzko, Shez Dawood, Ori Gersht, Shaun Gladwell, Glenna Gordon, Mishka Henner, Nina Katchadourian, Steffi Klenz, Martin Kollar, Karen Knorr, Sohei Nishino, Max Pinckers, Charlie Shoemaker, Heidi Specker, Laurie Simmons, Terry Smith, Julian Stallabrass, Daniel Traub, Sue Williamson and Catherine Yass.

Tate Britain BP Spotlight: Karen Knorr with Brett Rogers OBE

The Photographers’ Gallery in collaboration with Tate organises a curator-led tour of Conflict, Time, Photography and BP Spotlight: Karen Knorr at Tate is taking place on Thursday, 12 March from 08.45 up to 12.00.

The morning will consist of a curator-led tour of Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern led by Shoair Mavlian, running from 09.00 – 10.00.Then the tour will take the boat across to Tate Britain, where our Director, Brett Rogers OBE, will take them around BP Spotlight: Karen Knorr from 11.00.

Please contact The Photographers’ Gallery for the further information.

‘Punks’ on Print Sales at The Photographers’ Gallery

WE COULD BE HEROES
6 FEBRUARY – 12 APRIL 2015

Print Sales’ Gallery presents We Could Be Heroes a group exhibition which looks at the development of youth culture and the bittersweet rites of passage towards adulthood over the last century.The exhibition features work from master photographers Bruce Davidson, Ed van der Elsken, Bert Hardy, Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Roger Mayne, Chris Steele-Perkins, Anders Petersen, Al Vandenberg, Weegee and Tom Wood.

The term ‘teenager’ was coined during a new wave of post-war optimism and freedom in which younger generations in Europe and the US seized an opportunity to turn away from tradition and assert new attitudes and subcultures. We Could Be Heroes reflects the exuberance, insouciance and rebellious bravado of this new tribe and its predecessors.

Press Release (PDF)