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.
In her recent body of work, Mahr studies the beautiful and ‘unsightly’ facets of the human condition, touching on hard-hitting subjects such as postpartum body and displacement. Through layered and repeated figuration, she juxtaposes scarred bodies, decaying matter, and lifeless animals with moments of birth and vitality. Mahr often exhibits her work in unconventional spaces, natural surroundings and architectural forms. In 2024, she presented Unbecoming, a solo exhibition of new works at the Wehrmühle Museum in Berlin, curated by Margot Mottaz, Head of Curatorial at Superblue.
Mahr has received critical acclaim for her immersive audio-visual projects co-conceived with composer Max Richter, including VOICES (2022) and SLEEP (2017). The latter, an eight-hour live music performance was staged at iconic venues such as the Sydney Opera House, SXSW, The Concertgebouw, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Barbican.
Selected past exhibitions have seen Mahr curating alternative photography from Chiapas, Mexico, as well as work covering the aftermath of the Mozambique war through sensorial ethnography. She has curated weekend festivals of music and film at the Barbican and the Elbphilharmonie. Notably, Mahr curated a retrospective of Mari Mahr’s work for the European Month of Photography at the Kunststiftung Poll.
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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STUDIO RICHTER MAHR
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STUDIO RICHTER MAHR
‘Having spent twenty years thinking about this project, we knew how we wanted every aspect of the studio,’ says Mahr.‘As young artists, just starting out, without any resources, we often hungered for a space that could give us the time needed to explore creative ideas deeply and meaningfully,’ says... -
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Studio Richter Mahr, a new multi-arts production facility in Oxfordshire, is a rural, minimalist haven for cultureTucked away in the verdant countryside of Oxfordshire, sits the new multi-arts production facility of artists Max Richter and Yulia Mahr. Studio Richter Mahr may be a state-of-the-art creative space, but it is located within a low, metal-clad structure that takes its cues from the local vernacular of the region's barns and farmyard buildings – infused with the modern sensibility of a contemporary production headquarters. Visual artist Mahr and music composer Richter spearheaded the creation of their joint Oxfordshire studio that repurposes an upcycled farm building on the edge of 31 acres of woodland, transforming it into a piece of rural, minimalist architecture.
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INSIDE STUDIO RICHTER MAHR
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