DANIEL KNORR - Reduce Speed Now

We are pleased to present Daniel Knorr’s exhibition Reduce Speed Now, featuring new works from his Depression Elevations (Industrials) and Minimal Change series, along with the photographic series Expiration Movement.

Daniel Knorr likes to refer to his artistic practice as “contemporary archaeology.” His conceptual works revolve around the appropriation and reformulation of reality using different artistic processes according to each new situation. Knorr’s conceptual approach toward making history visible offers a relevant social critique that can be regarded as biopolitical in the broadest sense. His contributions to this year’s documenta consisted of smoke billowing from the Zwehrenturm of the Fridericianum in Kassel, which could be seen for 163 days under the title Expiration Movement, along with an artist’s book in which he pressed objects that had been discarded on the streets and squares of Athens. The book is the eleventh edition of a project that has been ongoing for ten years.

Daniel Knorr, born in 1968 in Bucharest, Romania, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. This year, he participated at the documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens. In 2005, he represented Romania at the 51st Venice Biennale
Knorr also participated in the biennials of Montenegro (2004), Berlin (2008), Łódź (2010) and Liverpool (2010), as well as the Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach (2007), the Manifesta 7 in Rovereto (2008), and the Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2011).