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Artist Intro: Manuela Karin Knaut

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Art Practice: Manuela Karin Knaut

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Detail: Abstract Essential #1 by Manuela-Knaut

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Detail: Abstract Essential #3 by Manuela-Knaut

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Detail: Pretty new me by Manuela-Knaut

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Detail: Restoring by Manuela-Knaut

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Detail: Abstract Essential #2 by Manuela-Knaut

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Detail: Sun for someone by Manuela-Knaut

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Detail: Swish by Manuela-Knaut

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Exhibition Guide

Abstract Essential #1 by Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

Abundance by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 160 x 140 cm, 2021

Opening Up by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Lacquer, and Oil on Canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2021

Pretty New Me (Diptych) by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Graphite, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 175 x 130 cm, 2021

Swish by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Oil, and Ink on Canvas, 165 x 165 cm, 2021

Room 1

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Artist Introduction – Manuela Karin Knaut

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Practice – Manuela Karin Knaut

Abstract Essential #2 by Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

Abstract Essential #3 by Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

Restoring by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2021

Sun for Someone (Diptych) by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil Pastel, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 200 x 140 cm, 2021

Manuela Karin Knaut

Manuela Karin Knaut’s painterly work reflects the enthusiasm of the artist for travel, the discovery of new terrain and the inevitable leaving of her own comfort zone.

Abstract Essential #1 by Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

Abstract Essential #2 by Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

Abstract Essential #3 by Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

Abundance by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 160 x 140 cm, 2021

Opening Up by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Lacquer, and Oil on Canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2021

Pretty New Me (Diptych) by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Graphite, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 175 x 130 cm, 2021

Restoring by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2021

Sun for Someone (Diptych) by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil Pastel, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 200 x 140 cm, 2021

Swish by Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Oil, and Ink on Canvas, 165 x 165 cm, 2021

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Abstract Essential #1 - Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

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Abstract Essential #1 - Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

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Abstract Essential #2 - Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

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Abstract Essential #2 - Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

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Abstract Essential #3 - Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

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Abstract Essential #3 - Manuela Karin Knaut

Mixed Media on canvas, 45 x 45 cm, 2021

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Abundance - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 160 x 140 cm, 2021

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Abundance - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 160 x 140 cm, 2021

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Opening Up - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Lacquer, and Oil on Canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2021

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Opening Up - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Lacquer, and Oil on Canvas, 200 x 120 cm, 2021

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Pretty New Me (Diptych) - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Graphite, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 175 x 130 cm, 2021

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Pretty New Me (Diptych) - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Graphite, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 175 x 130 cm, 2021

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Restoring - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2021

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Restoring - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Oil, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2021

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Sun for Someone (Diptych) - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil Pastel, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 200 x 140 cm, 2021

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Sun for Someone (Diptych) - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Ink, Oil Pastel, and Spraypaint on Canvas, 200 x 140 cm, 2021

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Swish - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Oil, and Ink on Canvas, 165 x 165 cm, 2021

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Swish - Manuela Karin Knaut

Acrylic, Enamel, Oil, and Ink on Canvas, 165 x 165 cm, 2021

Further Reading

About Exhibition

Grove Collective is pleased to present the upcoming solo exhibition Intuitive Energy, featuring German artist Manuela Karin Knaut, on view online in virtual reality through the Grove Collective website. This is the first time that Grove Collective and Knaut have worked together.

Manuela Karin Knaut’s work is perhaps best characterised as hanging in a delicate balance. On one hand, careening brushstrokes, fragmented text, and brusque figuration suggests a frenzy, while on the other, Knaut’s frenetic images are firmly contained to the canvas, never feeling lacking or unfinished. While there is most certainly a madness, so too does a method become apparent, undergirding everything Knaut does in her work.

In turn, the works featured in Intuitive Energy resist thematic grouping, in part due to Knaut’s practice being resistant to categorisation or ritualisation at all. Elements such as text can be included on a whim – Knaut has referenced Surrealist poetry as an influence – lending the work a sense of serendipity, as well as freedom. As such, each work and its gestures becomes a kind of event in itself, born of a specific time and place. However, when gathered together, through-lines in Knaut’s work reveal themselves, with patterns and tendencies becoming clear through sheer multiplicity.

In a broader programmatic sense, Intuitive Energy concludes a period of investment in abstraction for Grove Collective, punctuating a trio of summer exhibitions in which abstract work has been prominently featured. However, the exhibition proudly extends the work done by the gallery outside of the UK, with Knaut working from Braunschweig, Germany, and the scan of the exhibition taking place in Berlin. In this sense, Intuitive Energy anticipates a hopefully longstanding ability to work away from the gallery’s London base, engaging artists and collector bases globally.

Manuela Karin Knaut

Manuela Karin Knaut, born 1970, is an independent artist currently living in Braunschweig, Germany. She acquired a Master of Arts in Fine Art at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Apart from her centrally located studio and print workshop in Braunschweig she also keeps a studio in Johannesburg.

She has been a member of the Bund Bildender Künstler (German Association of Visual Artists) and the Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques, as well as The Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA). Member of the International Womens Association, Photomuseum Braunschweig and GEDOK Niedersachsen.

Since 1990 various exhibitions nationally and internationally, amongst them in South Africa, Ghana, Switzerland, Danmark, UK, Austria, USA, Israel, Kirghistan. Her works are represented worldwide in public and private collections.

Grounded in the firm belief that the art world must reflect an increasingly globalized marketplace, Grove Collective was established as a means to actualize a collective conception of what the art world can become when it works to benefit increasingly exciting and active new markets, not only an established collectorship. In doing so, the gallery exhibits exciting work from around the world, easing bottlenecks that prevent artists from selling their work, and making art from a diverse range of practitioners available to an equally diverse collector base.

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