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Daniel Knorr

born 1968 in Bucharest, Romania
lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong
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Art is a moment which interrupts us and projects us somewhere else.
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Using a wide variety of genres, Daniel Knorr explores urban space and the relationship between public and private in his interactive artistic projects. He applies a conceptual approach in his investigation of historical and socio-political (economic as well as bio-political) phenomena, which he appropriates, transfers, and thematizes in the context of art.
 
Knorr has draped balaclavas on equestrian statues (Copenhagen 2009), had the number and movement of museum visitors transferred to LCD screens with the help of software (Basel 2009), let robots beg in a museum and in public space (Vienna 2012), and constructed a smoking booth for a museum gallery (Bremen 2012). In his successful project Depression Elevation he created wall sculptures in transparent colors that were made out of casts of uneven sections in the road. At the abc Berlin in 2016, a bunker from the Second World War located at the Braunschweig Harbour will be recontextualized in the art fair when the monument to technology is transferred to the realm of contemporary art.
 
Daniel Knorr 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).
 
His most important solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Tübingen (2020), Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz (2012), Kunstverein Arnsberg (2010), Kunsthalle Basel (2009), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2009), Artspace, Auckland (2009), Fridericianum, Kassel (2008).
 
His works can be found in a number of collections, including the Erste Bank Collection, Vienna; Belvedere, Vienna; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Kunstmuseum Bonn (KiCo collection); Lenbachhaus, Munich; Migros Museum, Zurich; Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst, Liechtenstein; MuHKA Antwerpen; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

Selected Works

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Daniel Knorr, Canvas Sculptures, Gold Flag, 2022 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Canvas Sculptures, Gold Flag, 2022
polyurethane, UV resistant, gold leaf 24 carat
160 x 130 x 22 cm (63 x 51 x 8 5/8 in.)
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Daniel Knorr, Depression Elevations, Mountain, 2022 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Depression Elevations, Mountain, 2022
pigmented polyurethane casting, UV resistant
105 x 57 x 4 cm (41 x 22 x 1 1/2 in.)
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Daniel Knorr, Canvas Sculptures, Kleemantic, 2021 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Canvas Sculptures, Kleemantic, 2021
pigmented polyurethane, UV resistant
128 x 95 x 8 cm (50 x 37 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Daniel Knorr, Depression Elevations, Magnet of Sound, 2021 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Depression Elevations, Magnet of Sound, 2021
pigmented polyurethane casting, UV resistant
168 x 152 x 6 cm (66 x 60 x 2 3/8 in.)
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Daniel Knorr, Depression Elevations, Ackerstraße, 2019 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Depression Elevations, Ackerstraße, 2019
pigmented polyurethane casting, UV resistant
115 x 87 x 5 cm (45 x 34 x 2 in.)
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Daniel Knorr, Schneemann, 2018 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Schneemann, 2018
semi-precious stone, concrete, metal reinforcement, ed. 1/3
65 x 50 x 68 cm (26 x 20 x 27 in.)
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Daniel Knorr, Navel of the World, 2017 — Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Daniel Knorr
Navel of the World, 2017
stainless steel, concrete, ed. 2/3 + 2 AP
295 x 337 x 90 cm (116 1/8 x 132 2/3 x 35 2/5 in.)
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