Photographic venture into the grand architectural settings of museums, stately homes, and 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.
Jaskot-Gill, Sabina: - Sabina Jaskot-Gill is currently Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She studied History of Art and English Literature at university and previously lectured on Twentieth Century and Photographic Theory on the MA in Photography at Sotheby's Institute, London. Jaskot-Gill was the recipient of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award for the research of photography as art. She has previously taught at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham; worked on exhibitions and film programmes at Autograph ABP, London
Knorr, Karen: - Karen Knorr (USA/UK) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1954 and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She finished her education in Paris and London, and has taught, exhibited and lectured internationally, including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago. Her 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. Knorr is a Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK since 2010. She lives and works in London, U.K.
Wainwright, Jean: - Jean Wainwright is an art historian, critic and curator living in London. Her areas of expertise are in contemporary art and photography, with particular reference to Andy Warhol, on whose life and works she is an internationally recognised expert. As a writer and academic she has published extensively in the contemporary arts field, contributing to numerous catalogues and books as well as appearing on television and radio programmes.
