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Speaking in Dreams
Compton Verney
9 October – 2 November 2025

Multi-year collaboration between Yulia Mahr and Compton Verney begins with large-scale chapel installation

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.
SOMETHING CURATED
The Church of Our Becoming

In the courtyard of Dover Street Market Paris, thirteen towering figures stand – their heat-mapped forms glowing. On view until 24 August 2025, Yulia Mahr’s ‘The Church of Our Becoming’ unfolds as a meandering passage between these three-metre characters whose poised forms recall the quiet gravitas of classical sculpture while honouring the fluid and ambiguous possibilities of the human body. Informed by a background in social science, the British Hungarian multi-disciplinary artist’s work spans sculpture, installation, and lens-based media. In a very personal essay penned for Something Curated, Mahr shares the thinking behind her latest project.
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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- AnOther Thing to Do
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- 10 Magazine
  
  TEN'S TO SEE: "YULIA MAHR: THE CHURCH OF OUR BECOMING" AT DOVER STREET MARKET PARIS
- WALLPAPER
  In 'The Church of Our Becoming', on view at the Courtyard at Dover Street Market Paris, Yulia Mahr celebrates real human bodies

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Speaking in Dreams

SOMETHING CURATED

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

10 Magazine

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