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Tristan Hoare gallery 11 June - 17 July 2026
Of all the parts of the human body, none has compelled artists more persistently, across more cultures and centuries, than the hand. It is at once the most ordinary and the most miraculous of instruments — the site where thought becomes action, where inner life reaches outward and leaves its mark upon the world. To paint or sculpt a hand is, in some sense, to portray the very faculty of making itself.
Unbecoming - Yulia Mahr
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‘We chase the positive, live in the forever young. We seek permanence with a pursuit of a glassy and glossy perfection. We are indeed trained to find beauty within that model alone and to be repulsed by anything outside of it. And so we miss everything. The whole beautiful cascade of interconnections and cycles, of impermanence. But it is here where true meaning resides.’– Yulia Mahr

"Rarely has the phrase body of work been more apt to describe an artist’s output than for Yulia Mahr, because the body holds the paradox of being simultaneously whole and boundless. In her work, this duality serves as an effective framework for approaching each image not as a singular composition, but as a unique occurrence in an infinite matrix that enriches our experience of the natural world. Mahr’s largely figurative, interdisciplinary practice depicting all stages of human, plant and animal life posits the beautiful and the unsightly as inevitable and indistinguishable facets of our existence. It does so with contagious empathy: to discover Mahr’s work is to become forever alive again to nature’s sublime transformations." - Margot Mottaz
Speaking in Dreams
Compton Verney
Kicking off a long-term collaboration between multi-disciplinary artist Yulia Mahr (b.1967) and Compton Verney, a new installation exploring the porous line between dreaming and waking worlds will be unveiled in the Chapel.

Speaking in Dreams is a large-scale sculptural and photographic installation by Mahr that responds to the rare “Capability” Brown-designed chapel at Compton Verney.

Elements from the natural world such as charcoal, taxidermy and ash will fill and challenge the pristine white interior of the chapel, offering a unique meditation on anxiety as a defining characteristic of our time.
IT TAKES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING TO THE WORLD THAT COUNTS. - YULIA MAHR

Yulia Mahr is a British Hungarian interdisciplinary artist born in 1967. Her practice encompasses multiple mediums, embracing innovative and experimental creative processes. Influenced by a life marked by geographical displacement, Mahr’s personal history is infused into her artistic practice. Spanning lens-based work, sculpture and installation, and dissolving boundaries between creative disciplines, Mahr explores the intricacies of human existence. From transformative states like birth and death to themes of the body and gender, her work examines human interconnectedness, revealing what unites us from the cellular level to other species and the universe.

Influenced by visual anthropology and socially conscious art, Mahr sees art as a powerful tool for questioning, conversation, and understanding in the digital age. Her work addresses the politics of representation, modes of display, and questions of ownership, often reflecting her academic background in politics, history, and visual anthropology. Combined with her experience in theatre, this interdisciplinary foundation enables her to engage with the complexities of representation and human experience.
In addition to her artistic practice, Mahr Co-Founded and serves as Co-Artistic Director of Studio Richter Mahr alongside Max Richter. Situated within 31 acres of Oxfordshire woodland, the minimalist, sustainably focused studio functions as a multidisciplinary incubator. This state-of-the-art space fosters individual creative focus and communal connectivity, offering artists-in-residence writing rooms, a recording studio, and a collaborative environment reminiscent of iconic creative communities like Khala Bhavana, Black Mountain College, and Bauhaus.
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Unbecoming - Yulia Mahr

Speaking in Dreams

IT TAKES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO BE ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING TO THE WORLD THAT COUNTS. - YULIA MAHR

NEWS

AnOther Thing to Do

The Independent

Unbecoming with Yulia Mahr

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