• Karen Knorr Connoisseurs & Academies

Karen Knorr Connoisseurs & Academies

Karen Knorr’s photographic series Connoisseurs & Academies induce a kaleidoscope of memories: Photographed between 1986 and 2005 with an analog camera, her images let us venture into the intricate world of the history of museums and stately homes, of objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and the structures of academies. The use of animals as an allegorical motif is today embedded in Knorr’s practice, but they first appear in Connoisseurs, where a chimpanzee becomes the Genius of the Place.
Karen Knorr’s (b. 1954) works are in the collections of the Tate and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, SFMOMA, San Francisco, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bangalore, among others.


Cloth hardcover with dust jacket 24 × 30 cm 144 pages 59 color illustrations English Available soon ISBN 978-3-96900-157-8 2024

Artist:

Karen Knorr

Texts:

Sabina Jaskot-Gill, Jean Wainwright

Design:

Kehrer Design (Laura Pecoroni)

Exhibitions

Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York City
25.04.–01.06.2024

Photo London 2024 with Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Paris Photo 2024 with Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, and  Augusta Edwards Fine Art, London

Photographing 80s Britain: A Critical Decade
Tate Britain, London
21.11.2024–05.05.2025

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