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).

‘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.