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‘SELFIE’ @galeriampa Madrid Through Jan 21 With works by Ela Fidalgo, Gripface, Lujan Perez, Los Bravú, Gala Knörr, Julia Santa Olalla and Carla Fuentes. ‘…The social base between the daily act of instinctively looking at our own reflection in a shop window when walking down the street, to the institutionalization of the selfie as the basis of content creation, from which several million people live today, is the same. And we cannot blame ourselves: in 1890 Oscar Wilde published the Portrait of Dorian Grey, which is still a darker and less naive version of Narcissus, and with this work he puts us in front of the mirror: what place does beauty occupy in our social and power relationships? Jerry Saltz wrote in 2014: “We live in the age of the selfie. A quick self-portrait, taken with a smartphone camera and immediately distributed and embedded on a network, is an instant visual communication of where we are, what we're doing, who we think we are, and who we think is watching us. Selfies have changed aspects of social interaction, body language, self-awareness, privacy, and humor, altering temporality, irony, and public behavior. It has become a new visual genre, a type of self-portrait formally distinct from all others in history. Selfies have their own structural autonomy. This is something very important for art’’. The selfie is a new genre, with its own formal logic, structure, codes and intentionality, which grows and multiplies at such a speed that it can be one of the greatest cultural testimonies of our time today. In this exhibition, we present the work of seven Spanish artists who work around the representation of the human being, the exposure of the public image on the Internet and its interpretation through painting.’ Excerpt from the curator Ester Almeda’s text. #elafidalgo #galaknorr #lujanperez #gripface #losbravú #juliasantaolalla #carlafuentes #painting #selfie #internet #contemporaryart #galeriampa #moisesperezdealbeniz #madrid (en Galeria MPA / Moises Perez de Albeniz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CleGeRkInXP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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GALA KNÖRR ‘Reality Bytes’ @salonacme x @pablosbirthday México D.F. ‘Reality Bytes’ is aesthetically inspired by the rebellious 1980s UK rave culture which was a reaction by British youth to the oppressive nature of Margaret Thatcher’s government policymaking. A hedonistic act of protest through music and creativity that celebrated union against a future that felt stolen. Internet images just as much as electronic music, are shared, hacked, adulterated, carry a genealogy impossible to trace that carries the effects and readings that have been added by others, that relational capacity potentially can reactivate a sensitivity in society necessary to recognize itself and generate novel and radical narratives in the face of a future that appears highly uncertain. Gala Knörr was born in 1984 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) and received her BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons Paris The New School in 2007, and an MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2011. She has been the recipient of Generación 2020 - Fundación Montemadrid, the Basque Artist Program Grant from the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, and the Cultura Resident Artistic Research Fellowship from the Consorci de Museus GVA. Additionally, Knörr was appointed the 2018-2019 Artist-Researcher in residence at Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths University in London. She has also done residencies at Tabakalera International Centre of Contemporary Culture in San Sebastian, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, AIR Wro in Breslau, and Fundación Bilbaoarte Fundazioa in Bilbao. The artist lives in Bilbao. #salonacme #pablosbirthday #galaknorr #painting #sculpture #contemporaryart #mexico (en SALÓN ACME) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ4izjGM11D/?utm_medium=tumblr

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OPEN STUDIOS @tabakalera_donostia 27-28th November San Sebastian Tabakalera is once again opening the studios of the Artists' Space for two days in which the public will have the opportunity to interact with the resident artists and learn first-hand about the projects they are developing through the support programmes for creators. Since last October and until the end of this year, the artists participating in the Open Studios have been working in the Artists' Space, where they are provided with a studio, different resources and services available at the centre and are offered support throughout their creative processes. Ten artists will participate in this edition of Open Studios: Gala Knörr Karlos M. Bordoy Taxio Ardanaz Gabriel Pericàs Valery Rojas Candela Cienfuegos Irati Cano Macarena F. Puig Rocío Agudo Diogo Vaz #tabakalera #contemporaryart #openstudio #galaknorr #karlosmbordoy #taxioardanaz #candelacienfuegos #painting #sculpture #videoinstallation (en Tabakalera) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW1nKMdIC0q/?utm_medium=tumblr

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GALA KNÖRR How to Make Friends and Influence People @montehermoso_kulturunea Vitoria-Gasteiz Through September 12th Humour is that place where formality ends and the gags of political correctness disappear. Through the art of inconvenience, its main objective is to challenge a cause. We often associate humor with democracy, as a framework to freely express our opinions and question the contexts that surround us. If humour is intelligent, its irreverence allows us to strike at the heart of power, intimidating and confronting it. Knörr uses memes as a vehicle to formalize her satirical comments about the world around her. These scathing comments are presented through equally irreverent means, often having more to do with the ephemeral formats of merchandising than with fine arts. All together generates an uncomfortable, playful and subliminal experience, but no less profound or critical for that. An experience where we are all welcome to generate our own opinions and participate in the important and necessary critique of the complex moment in which we live. Except from the text by @gonzaloherrero ‘Todo arte es humor' 📷 @jorgeisla.nft #galaknorr #montehermosokulturunea #vitoriagasteiz #contemporaryart #print #videoinstallation #painting (en Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRYgBY8lFRR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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GALA KNÖRR Champagne Supernova @galeriat20 Murcia Through July 30th 'Champagne Supernova' explores the concept of impotence within the techno-neoliberal era and the so-called 'American Dream' permeating into popular culture through media. The project takes us back to the artist's teenage bedroom where all dreams started, surrounded by simultaneously contradicting and iconic representations of success. All co-existing within the infrastructure of late stage capitalism which does not favour the 'hard work pays off' ethos, but diminish the individuals self-value when unable to overcome obstacles. The exhibition includes a text by Barcelona-based curator Clàudia Elies. 📷 @josefilemon #galaknorr #galeriat20 #champagnesupernova #painting #installationart #contemporaryart #icons #millenials (en T20) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-yHjrFW_N/?utm_medium=tumblr

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GALA KNÖRR @galaknorr Project: Good Bad Not Evil These days the power of the digital image is so viral that is has ended defining our reactive multidimensional description of everyday life and how we receive information on current events from online media almost immediately. Digital images played a key role in two of the most earth-shattering political and social moments in twenty-first-century Western culture: the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the Brexit referendum to leave the European Union held in the United Kingdom. Italian Philosopher Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi (Bologna, 1948) reminded us that we are spending more and more time living in a digital reality, as electronic nomads whose souls are reflected online. By means of isolation and hyper-normalisation, that reality robs as the ability to create shared meanings that justify the existence of a collective consciousness or realm. Gala Knörr has investigated and analyzed those reactions to create a project —an installation with large-format paintings and a video— in which she shows the shared, collective response to real-life events based on viral images or post-Internet language and millennial symbols translated into the medium of art. The images we consume, create, edit and share to define aspects of our multi-realities have always had a dubious pedigree, but they are nevertheless part of the digital capitalist society’s heritage. Aside from the obvious, they also have speculative and relational connotations, such as the ability to trigger a sense of self-recognition, or mirroring, in users or viewers. For instance, the digital meme linguistically related to the French word même, used to refer to something that is the same or equal. Good Bad Not Evil explores the nature of digital images, the ‘poor image’, memes and deep fakes in an attempt to illustrate the absurd yet powerful associative nature or Internet imagery and its transference or power from digital reality to real-life experience. 📷 @grimaltdeblanch #galaknorr #lacasaencendida #installationart #painting (en La Casa Encendida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2Wx9HlE1d/?igshid=1glep2vz8gl5c

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GALA KNÖRR ‘The Selfish Meme’ @pablosbirthday NYC Until August 4th #galaknorr #galaknörr #pablosbirthday #newyork #lowereastside #contemporaryart #paintint #sculpture #socialmedia (en Pablo's Birthday) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6Z8GkID_G/?igshid=121afnu9bna5y

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GALA KNÖRR ‘The Selfish Meme’ @pablosbirthday NYC Until August 4th #galaknorr #galaknörr #pablosbirthday #newyork #lowereastside #contemporaryart #paintint #sculpture #socialmedia (en Pablo's Birthday) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6ZAPVoaXn/?igshid=89t5m1mre13u