Upcoming Exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles

Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography
Curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer
La Mécanique Générale (Fondation LUMA)
6 July – 4 October 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to share that three works from her series Scavi (2023–2024) will be on view in the upcoming group exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles at La Mécanique Général (Fondation LUMA) in Arles, France. Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography will then travel to Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, opening 4 December 2026 – 4 April 2027.

Companion, research subject, symbol, mirror, or fantasy, animals have never left the photographers’ frame since the invention of the medium. Animal Model offers an immersion into two centuries of images that reveal how photography has shaped our view of animals and profoundly influenced the ways we love, exploit, or defend them.

Unruly – The Body in Punk
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
27 June – 13 December 2026

Karen Knorr is delighted to share that eight works from Punks, her 1977 collaborative series with Olivier Richon, will be showcased in Denmark for ARoS’ upcoming exhibition, Unruly – The Body in Punk.

Featuring around 130 works, the exhibition traces punk’s origins in 1970’s London and shows how the movement spread and changed – with a special focus on Berlin’s subcultures. Pain, wildness, imagination. Energy, boldness, defiance. Punks used the body as a form of resistance against discipline and societal norms imposed by a world they saw as already collapsing. In punk, bodily expression was political.

30 Years and More
Les Filles du Calvaire
21 Rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
23 May – 20 June 2026

From 23 May – 20 June, Les Filles du Calvaire celebrates more than thirty years of commitment to contemporary creation. Yet this exhibition does not look back on a completed journey; rather, it affirms a living continuity. 30 Years and More is not a retrospective. It is a statement of intent, that of a gallery whose purpose is to support artists and promote contemporary artistic practices. Karen Knorr’s collaboration with the gallery dates back to 1999, first showing with the gallery branch in Brussels.

Through one work by each artist, the exhibition brings together those who today embody the history and identity of the gallery. 30 Years and More reflects a long-standing dialogue between the gallery and the artists, emerging and established, whom it accompanies. This sustained relationship, nourished by experimentation and risk-taking, reflects the gallery’s enduring commitment to contemporary art in all its forms, and particularly to the French scene, which it helps bring to wider visibility both nationally and internationally.

Earth to Sky 
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Open now – 13 June 2026

Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore is pleased to present paintings, sculptures, and photographs by a global group of artists who draw inspiration from the natural world. Two works from Karen Knorr’s series India Song are included in the exhibition. From tactile paintings that capture the varied hues of a setting sun to meditative abstractions that evoke swirling colonies of microorganisms, Earth to Sky is a celebration of nature’s beauty and diversity in all its forms.

Alongside the paintings and sculptures, the exhibition presents photographs by Karen Knorr, the London-based American artist and activist known for her imagery of exotic animals digitally fused into opulent architectural settings. In her seminal series India Song, set among the sacred and secular spaces of Rajasthan, Knorr explores the conflict between culture and nature. She highlights the fragility of buildings damaged by forces of nature and mass tourism, and the animals themselves, threatened by climate change and extinction.

Karen Knorr Inhabits the Castle
Château d’Azay-le-Rideau

No Future by Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon
Château d’Oiron

13 June – 1 November 2026
(Press Opening: 26 June 2026)

In celebration of the bicentenary of photography, Karen Knorr Inhabits the Castle, opens 13 June – 1 November 2026 (press opening 26 June) at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau. Featuring around fifty photographs, the retrospective is curated by Claude d’Anthenaise and supported by Les Filles du Calvaire. Also on view at the same time will be No Future, an exhibition of Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon’s series Punks (1977) at Château d’Oiron.

By moving into the Château d’Azay-le-Rideau, Karen Knorr continues her investigation into the habitat/inhabitant relationship. At Azay, most visitors are drawn by the architectural richness, but they also seek a bygone way of life.

Global Visions – FotoFest at 40
7 March – 10 May 2026

Sawyer Yards Galleries
2000 Edwards Street, Houston, TX 77007

Two works from the series Gentlemen (1981 – 1983) are on view as part of FotoFest 2026 in Houston. They were previously shown in the 1992 edition of the biennial. Curated by FotoFest co-founder and former artistic director Wendy Watriss, executive director Steven Evans, and co-curators Annick Dekiouk and Madi Murphy, Global Visions – FotoFest at 40 dives deeply into the international and local archives of FotoFest’s 40 year legacy. It reconstitutes the organisation’s widely praised exhibitions, publications, and citywide photo and mixed-media presentations that have defined the organisation’s pioneering history.

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Collaborations
Saturday 16 May 2026, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Open studio event with Karen Knorr, Anna Fox, Dafna Talmor, Bettina von Zwehl and Gareth McConnell

Karen Knorr is delighted to welcome you to her East London studio for a collaborative event with Anna Fox, as well as with neighbouring SPACE Studio artists, Bettina von Zwehl, Dafna Talmor and Gareth McConnell. Works by each of the artists will be on view as well as a selection of books to browse. We hope you can join us for this event celebrating collaboration and friendship!

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox will be exhibiting a selection of prints from U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), their co-authored project which revisits Berenice Abbott’s 1954 seminal road trip.Starting in Key West in 2016, they set out to start a record of contemporary life along U.S. Route 1. during the age of Trump. Also on view at the event will be

Upcoming Solo Exhibitions
Château d’Azay-le-Rideau and Château d’Oiron

Curated by Claude d’Anthenaise, supported by Les Filles du Calvaire

15 June – 1 November 2026 (PV: 26 June 2026)

In celebration of the bicentenary of photography, Karen Knorr’s upcoming retrospective at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau, curated by Claude d’Anthenaise and supported by Les Filles du Calvaire, opens 15 June – 1 November 2026 (PV 26 June 2026). Also on view at the same time will be an exhibition of Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon’s series Punks (1977) at Château d’Oiron.

The exhibition at Château d’Azay-le-Rideau will feature over forty photographs spanning from the 1970’s to the present day. Built during the reign of Francis I by Gilles Berthelot, the king’s financier, the château of Azay-le-Rideau presents a subtle alliance of French traditions and innovative decorations from Italy. It has become an icon of the new art of building in the Loire Valley in the 16th century, and is today considered one of the jewels of early French Renaissance architecture.

Collaborations
Saturday 16 May 2026, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Open studio event with Karen Knorr, Anna Fox, Dafna Talmor, Bettina von Zwehl and Gareth McConnell

Karen Knorr is delighted to welcome you to her East London studio for a collaborative event with Anna Fox, as well as with neighbouring SPACE Studio artists, Bettina von Zwehl, Dafna Talmor and Gareth McConnell. Works by each of the artists will be on view as well as a selection of books to browse. We hope you can join us for this event celebrating collaboration and friendship!

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox will be exhibiting a selection of prints from U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), their co-authored project which revisits Berenice Abbott’s 1954 seminal road trip.Starting in Key West in 2016, they set out to start a record of contemporary life along U.S. Route 1. during the age of Trump. Also on view at the event will be