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Entanglement of Matter and the Shared Memory of the Studio: “Entangled: Seven Artists from Yale School of Art” Exhibition in Vienna

Entanglement of Matter and the Shared Memory of the Studio: “Entangled: Seven Artists from Yale School of Art” Exhibition in Vienna

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Galerie Kandlhofer, one of the distinguished destinations on Vienna’s contemporary art scene, plays host to the productions of seven young talents emerging from the Yale School of Art—one of the most prestigious centers of global art memory. On view between June 25 and July 31, 2026, the group exhibition titled “Entangled: Seven Artists from Yale School of Art” is shaped by the vision of curator Hector Hollein. Having spent the last two years in the same buildings, the same classrooms, and breathing the same intellectual air, the freshest works produced by these seven artists—Amy Chasse, Yuna Cho, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Leyla Tonak, Yuwei Tu, Alixe Turner, and Faye Wei Wei—following their graduation from the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Painting and Printmaking, establish such a powerful dialogue in Europe for the first time through this exhibition.

Rejecting Didactic Paradigms: Live Relational Networks

The exhibition completely rejects the didactic and forced thematic frameworks frequently encountered in contemporary group exhibitions. Instead of aligning the artists under a mutual conceptual headline, it opens up space for flexible networks of association that develop spontaneously between artworks and objects within the three-dimensional void of the gallery. Drawing inspiration from renowned archaeologist Ian Hodder’s Entanglement theory—which examines the mutual dependency relationships between objects and humans—as well as Jane Bennett’s philosophy of “Vibrant Matter,” the curatorial framework reminds us that objects possess their own active lives and timelines. The subtle or conspicuous aesthetic impacts that the artists’ two-year spatial proximity inflicted upon each other’s visual worlds transform into a mysterious bond of kinship on the walls of Kandlhofer.

The Shadow Realm of Art: Exposing the Studio Archive

The most refined layer of this exhibition practice is formed by things that usually remain hidden within the privacy of the studio, making an appearance right alongside the finished masterpieces. A sketch belonging to the process, a fragment of an incomplete sculpture, or organic residues left over from production carry an assertion of existence in their own right, while rendering visible that invisible connective tissue behind the other monumental works in the exhibition—namely, the shadow realm of art. This selective permeability operating between Alixe Turner’s formless surfaces, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray’s imagery, Faye Wei Wei’s fairytale-like world, and the layered compositions of Leyla Tonak, Yuna Cho, and Yuwei Tu wrenches the viewer from being a passive observer. As Hollein notes, an exhibition is always a living network woven by the viewer’s own associations, where meaning expands continuously via connections and traps. “Entangled” stands out as one of Vienna’s most dynamic intellectual stops this summer for those who wish to explore how the material worlds of young artists entangle with one another.