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Mahr’s remarkable career has garnered widespread acclaim for seamlessly bridging the realms of social science and art — an achievement underpinned by her extensive academic background in Politics, History, and Visual Anthropology at the London School of Economics and the Freie Universitat in Berlin. Starting her career as a Theatre Director with a focus on issues of human rights abuses, Mahr is now the Founder and Creative Director of Studio Richter Mahr alongside composer Max Richter, and spearheads an innovative incubator for art and music projects.
In 2024, Mahr presented Unbecoming, a solo exhibition of new works at Wehrmuehle Museum, Berlin, curated by Margot Mottaz (Head of Curatorial at Superblue). In this recent body of work, Mahr studies the beautiful and ‘unsightly’ facets of the human condition, touching on hard-hitting subjects such as postpartum body, displacement and masculinity. Through layered and repeated figuration, scarred bodies, decaying matter, and lifeless animals are contrasted with moments of birth and life.
In this film, Yulia discusses the works in the exhibition and the ideas that form her artistic practice.
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Erotic Review
Yulia Mahr continues her ongoing exploration of identity, memory and belonging. But here we delve deeper in how we perceive desire and sensuality on bodies that have endured transformations through any number of lived experiences we might imagine...In the selected works of Hungarian-born British visual artist Yulia Mahr, she continues her ongoing exploration of identity, memory and belonging. But here we delve deeper in how we perceive... -
In You I See Me
I had this desire in "In You I See Me" to speak to anonymous, unknown women across time, and to find these background figures in photographs who have long since been forgotten. My process has been to single these women out, photograph them, and then re-photograph them again several times until they appear dream-like and reverential, almost holy.
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NOWNESS
ON A JOURNEY OF METAMORPHOSIS, THE HUNGARIAN-BORN BRITISH VISUAL ARTIST DIVES INTO PERSONAL LANDSCAPES FOR UNBECOMING AT BERLIN’S WEHRMUEHLEPRIVATE VIEW: YULIA MAHR A film by Toby Amies Through her lens-based and sculptural works, Hungarian-born British visual artist Yulia Mahr has become widely recognised for unpicking the fabric of...
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