Galerie Kandlhofer is pleased to present the group exhibition Entangled: Seven Artists from Yale School of Art opening on Wednesday, 24 June 2026. The exhibition, is curated by Hector Hollein and features works by will be on view from 25 June to 31 July 2026 at Galerie Kandlhofer, Brucknerstraße 4, 1040 Vienna.

Entangled: Seven Artists from Yale School of Art features artworks from Amy Chasse, Yuna Cho, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Leyla Tonak, Yuwei Tu, Alixe Turner and Faye Wei Wei, who have all recently graduated with an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking.

Instead of a theme that connects these seven artists, this exhibition tries to create possibilities for associations tied to the artworks and objects in the space.

“Things have lives, vibrant lives and temporalities, and they depend on each other and on humans. This separate world of things draws humans in. The social world of humans and the material world of things are entangled together by dependences and dependencies that create potentials, further investments and entrapments”.¹

The ideas expressed in this excerpt from Ian Hodder’s work on entanglement guided my process, and I wanted to consider the implications for exhibiting artworks in a space such as this gallery. What are the “potentials” for artworks created by artists that have spent the last two years in the same classrooms in the same buildings. What influences, subtle or obvious, have they and their works had on each other and continue to do so. While this group of artists draws from various individual experiences and inspirations, the material worlds of their artworks are to some extent mysteriously connected and entangled with each other.

Alongside artworks, this exhibition shows a series of ‘things’ that are in some way or another involved in the creation or practice of the artists. A sketch, a fragment of a former sculptural work can be their own work and at the same time remnants, shadows, or connective tissue of another artwork that gains new nuances through an exhibition. While some objects give quite direct hints to their origin, others may be more ambiguous, leaving room for the viewer to create their own associations, which in turn become entangled with other artworks. This selective display of influences investigates how we, as an audience, can exert agency by making and guiding associations and stories around artworks and their afterlife.

Isn’t an exhibition always a selective web of works that exudes meaning through dialogues with the viewer, where each work unfolds potential through connections and entrapments?

                                                                                                                  – Text by Hector Hollein

________________________________________
¹ Ian Hodder, Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 89. See also Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).

About the artists:

Amy Chasse (b. 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, animation, and performance. Drawing from American suburbia, ideas of otherness, and distorted memory, she creates work that is both playful and unsettling. Through constructed and real bodies, Chasse develops open-ended narratives that blur fiction and lived experience. She received her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2026 and her BFA from Syracuse University in 2019. Chasse is a 2026 recipient of the Yale Prison Education Initiative-Yale School of Art Fellowship and has been featured in publications including Two Coats of Paint and Monster Children. Her work has been exhibited throughout New York City and internationally, including exhibitions in Mexico City and Florence.

Yuna Cho (b. 1993) creates sculptural environments that explore how perception is shaped through material, light, and time. Working with paper, plaster, wood, gelatin, and glycerin, she traces quiet transformations as materials respond to gravity, humidity, touch, and duration, allowing her works to soften, erode, collapse, and harden again as living records of time and contact. Cho received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2026) and her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2015). Upcoming exhibitions include presentations at Tina Kim Gallery and James Fuentes Gallery in New York. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (Issue 177).

Ambrose Rhapsody Murray (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in Florida and North Carolina in the American South.Through sewing, painting, installation, material experimentation, film and collaborative projects, her work investigates the colonial undercurrents of our lives, the charged symbology of black feminine bodies, and the ephemeral and layered qualities of memory and remembering. Ambrose earned her Bachelor’s in Black Studies from Yale in 2018 and her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2026. Her work has been featured in Cultured Magazine, Artsy, SEEN and Galerie Magazine. She is a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Black Rock Senegal alum, and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree. Her work has exhibited across the US and abroad, and lives in the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Montclair Art Museum.

Leyla Tonak (b. 1996) is a painter, writer and researcher from Nova Scotia and Istanbul. Informed by living between the political contexts of Turkey, the US and Canada and guided by translation theory as a queer methodology—an idea proposed by the Turkish queer sociologist Evren Savcı—their practice uses large-scale painting to explore language, (mis)translation, queerness and trans embodiment through the forms of walls, text, and monsters. Sourcing from West Asian and Mediterranean myths and folklore, Ottoman erotica, Istanbul's duvar yazıları or 'wall writings', and their own family history, Tonak's works generate text-figure hybrids in states of mutation. Their process is driven by research, writing and citation but it is also deeply physical. Using their hands rather than brushes, they alternate between painting on the ground and on the wall to build up layers of paint, graphite, newsprint and medium into surfaces that shift between skin, manuscript and wall— oxidizing, oozing and eroding into new formations. Tonak earned their MFA from Yale School of Art. They are a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant, and from 2022 to 2023 they completed a Fulbright Creative Arts project in Istanbul researching artworks about femicide.

Yuwei Tu (b. 1995) is a recent Painting/Printmaking MFA graduate from Yale School of Art, class of 2026. She is currently based in New York. Finding expression through painting and sculpture, her practice follows an ongoing examination of the intricacies and nuance of the human psyche. The result is an acknowledgement and acceptance of a self that is not fully definable, singular, and fixed, but rather situated in context and relationality. Intimate in scale, the work is slow to reveal itself. In each quiet encounter, she is interested in gesturing to the overlooked, inviting the pause, cultivating a stillness.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Rusha & Co, Los Angeles; de boer, Los Angeles; Palo Gallery, New York; Yale CCAM ISOVIST Gallery, New Haven; MEAM, European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona. This Summer 2026, Yuwei will exhibit new works with Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; James Fuentes, New York.

Alixe Turner (b.1989) works across drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Through a variety of processes that employ unconventional materials and mark-making tools, her work confronts her own body and its limitations. Turner’s practice plays a game of telephone: ideas of origin, truth, and reality become distorted and destabilized. Drawing from her years as a surveyor and her interest in cartographic systems, she engages the material languages of bureaucracy to consider what is officially recorded, redacted, and concealed.

Turner received an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art and a B.A. in International Development from McGill University. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2025 and is a recipient of the Dean’s Travel Fellowship and the Art YAF Scholarship. Recent exhibitions include Towards Gallery, Toronto; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven; Solar Tacubaya, Mexico City; and NXTHVN, New Haven. Upcoming group exhibitions include presentations at James Fuentes Gallery and Half Gallery in New York City in the summer of 2026.

Faye Wei Wei (b.1994) conceives of the painting process as an intimate choreography between actual and pictorial space. Often revolving around spiritual iconography and classical myth, love rituals and the theatricality of gender, her works sometimes suggest the themes of particular mythic narratives, and at other moments seem to depart into a more ambiguous, interior space of incongruity and uncertainty.

Wei Wei graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (BA Hons), in 2016 and completed her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Sounds of the Organ Pushing the Walls of the Cathedral Outwards, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna (2024); The Moon Balloon of New York City, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna (2022); Moon, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna (2021); Sun, Isetan The Space, Tokyo (2021); If You Sat Long Enough You Could See A Flower Bloom, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna (2020); I've Always Been A Weeper At The Cinema, Cob Gallery, London (2019); Sweet Bitter, Valentine, SADE Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); CFCCA Presents: Faye Wei Wei, Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester (2018).