Two of Karen Knorr’s photographs are exhibited  in London in Seduced by Art : Photography Past And Present, The National Gallery’s first exhibition devoted to photography curated by Hope Kingsley and Christopher Riopelle. Photographers exhibited include Juliet Margaret Camern, Sam Taylor Wood and Rineke Dijkstra.

The Show includes 90 photographs alongside selected paintings from The National Gallery’s Collection. The Exhibition travels to Caixa Forum, Barcelona (21 February – 19 May 2013) and to Caixa Forum Madrid (18 June – 15 September 2013)

Galeria de Arte do Sesi, Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo:  24 September-25 November 2012

This is the first exhibition ever staged in Brazil to chart a course through British photography in modern times. It spans almost a century –  from the new photographic directions of the 20s and 30s that developed alongside the emergence of mass media, to the diverse practice of today’s image-laden world – and features the work of many of Britain’s most significant, celebrated and influential photographers.

“The power of the humble everyday object to transform,
with the artist’s eye, into a work of art – some fruit in
a bowl, a fallen flower on a low brick wall, a stack of
tea cups, a raw light bulb. The creation of a mood, an
atmosphere – ‘don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what
it feels like’. An uninteresting moment turned into an
unforgettable one.”

– Anjum Katyal

I will be opening up my studio to the public and have hung the series Connoisseurs (1986-1989 ).
This colour work made in the mid to late 1980’s, a humorous and ironic view on the geneology of the English museum and its links to the developing heritage industryin London  in the 1980’s. The photographic series begins in Burlington’s Chiswick House (English Heritage) and uses sites such as The Soane Museum at the Lincoln Inn Fields home of Sir John Soane, The Dulwich Picture Gallery, Osterley Park House and the “fake” plaster cast room of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (currently under restoration).

A unique set of black white vintage  Punks photographed by Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon in 1977 will be exhibited in Tate Britain as part of Another London

Tate Britain will hold an exhibition of 180 classic twentieth-century photographs which take London as their key subject. In the years between 1930 and 1980,some of the best-known photographers from around the world came to London to make work about the city and its communities. This exhibition will bring together some of the biggest names in international photography, to explore the ways photographers, for whom London was a foreign city which they either visited briefly or settled in permanently, saw and represented the subject in their own unique and distinctive ways.

Karen Knorr exhibited  40 works at Puerta Nueva in Cordoba Spain to mark the publication of a 240 page catalogue of her work including her first series Punks made jointly with Olivier Richon in 1976-1977. The catalogue is distributed internationally by Fabrica. Essays by Kathy Kubicki and Quentin Bajac contextualise Knorr’s work.