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Exhibitions in India, Dubai, LA & New York

FOCUS, Photo Biennale Mumbai, India   March 13 – 27, 2013

KAREN KNORR launches  LADIES work at Focus , Mumbai’s first free photography Festival, a celebration of the art of photography and the promotion of work of young and established hotographers in both India and abroad.I am delighted to be showing work alongside two members of the Lucida photography group:

ARUNIMA SINGH and SURUCHI DUNPAWAR  who I have worked with in India.

A Photograph is Not An Opinion – Contemporary Photography by WomenAt the Terrace Gallery, Curated by Sunil Gupta Jehangir Art Gallery, 161 Kala Ghoda, Mumbai

ART DUBAI,  Dubai, United Arab Emirates  March 20- 23  2013

A solo exhibition 8 photographs from the evolving INDIA SONG  series will be shown at the Tasveer Arts at  the seventh edition of Art Dubai .

Over the last six years, Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), has become a cornerstone of the region’s booming contemporary art community. In 2012, Art Dubai welcomed 22,500 visitors – including 75 international museums groups – and hosted 75 galleries  from 32 countries.

 AIPAD, New York City, New York  March April 4- 7 2013 

Karen Knorr will be represented by Eric Franck Fine Art and James Danziger Gallery

PARIS PHOTO, Paramount Studios, L.A  March 26- 28 2013

Karen Knorr will be represented by the James Danziger Gallery at the first Paris Photo edition  in Los Angeles.

New photographs from India Song and Fables

New photographs from India Song and Fables are on show simultaneously in Geneva and Delhi with Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris and Tasveer Art, Bangalore

Art Geneve. Feb 1-3 2013
India Art Fair. Feb 1-3 2013

INDIA SONG Becoming Arihanta, Sahastrabahu Temple, Gwalior

Becoming Arihanta, Jain Temple, Gwalior

Fresh from Paris Photo 2012, Karen Knorr  has solo exhibitions  of new work planned for 2013 to take place in  Bangalore, Dubai and New York.

Preparations are being made to make work in Rome, Kyoto and Madurai and a new artist’s book project is evolving based on Karen Knorr’s collaboration last year with Vanessa Reid and friends  for Pop Magazine.

Watch this space!

Installation shot  of KAREN KNORR's INDIA SONG @James Danziger Gallery at Paris Photo Nov 2012

Installation shot of KAREN KNORR’s INDIA SONG @James Danziger Gallery at Paris Photo Nov 2012

Karen Knorr @Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery

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)

The Work of Art In the Age Of Mechanical Reproduction / CONNOISSEURS 1988

37 Indian Still Lifes

“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

Participating Photographers :

Adil Hasan, Amit Mehra, Amit Pasricha, Anna Fox, Annu Matthew, Anuj Ambalal, Arun Nangla, Bijoy,
Chowdhury, Blodsow VS, Christopher Taylor, Deepak John Matthew, Edgar Angelone, François
Daireaux, Gireesh GV, Jasmeen Patheja, Jyothi Bhatt, Karen Knorr, Madhavi Swarup, Mahesh
Shantaram, Manoj Kumar Jain, Mukesh Parpiani, Navroze Contractor, Neeta Madahar, Pradip Malde,
Prarthana Modi, Prashant Panjiar, Rajesh Vora, Rajib De, Saibal Das, Sunil Gupta, Swapan Nayak,
Tarun Chopra, Tim Hall, Tom Parker, Vicky Roy, Vinay Mahidhar, Vivek Vilasini

Details of Exhibition

Date: 24th August – 14th September, 2012

Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm ( Sundays off )

Venue: CINNAMON

#11 Walton Road

Off Lavelle Road

Bangalore – 560001

CONNOISSEURS @SPACE STUDIOS OPENING, LONDON JULY 6, 7, 8, 2012

I will be opening up my studio to the public and have hung the series Connoisseurs (1986-1989 ).

( www.karenknorr.com)

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  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).
The photographs are printed on archival supergloss cibachrome paper ( now discontinued)framed with brass plaques attached.
The frame is part of the work and was designed with Nick Hawker at John Jones Framers.  I have been working with John Jones’
since the early 1990′s and still design frames for my work with them.
Connoisseurs  was first shown at The Riverside Studios in 1987 and was recently shown at Elles @ Centre Pompidou international exhibition in 2010
One of these will be shown this October in the National Gallery in the exhibition Seduced by Art .

Connoisseurs  was a follow up to Gentlemen (1981-1983) an excerpt of 6 which will be part of group show called CAPITAL with Steffi Klenz and Fergus Heron ( amongst others)  at  the George and Jorgen Gallery
in Bermondsey .  A selection from Gentleman series will be on view in a gallery alongside Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen and Barbara Kruger’s What Big Muscles you Have, and a few other artists that are
part of the theme “Figures of Speech”.at the Seattle Art Museum in Washington USA from October  11 2012 to Jan, 13 2013, a travelling version of elles: Women Artists from the Centre PompidouParis 

Transmigrations, Paris 13 Oct to 19 Nov 2011
We are pleased to invite you for a preview of Transmigrations  by Karen Knorr from 18h -21h
Christine Ollier et Stéphane Magnan
KAREN KNORR
Transmigrations : India Song & Villa Savoye
Exposition du 13 octobre au 19 novembre 2011
Vernissage le samedi 15 octobre de 15h à 20h
The gallery is delighted to present the recent series by Karen Knorr entitled India Song realised these last two years in India, and to celebrate the award of the Pilar Citoler Prize (1) to Karen Knorr this spring.  Also for her work Fables supported by the Carnavalet Museum, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham and  a commission from the Museum  de la Chasse et de la Nature.
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[1] 5e Prix International de Photographie Contemporaine « Pilar Citoler », Espagne