Charline von Heyl
The Garden of Cyrus
2021
Acrylic and oil on linen
82 x 74 inches
208.28 x 187.96 cm
Charline von Heyl (b. 1960, Germany)
Charline von Heyl was born in Germany in 1960 and has lived in the United States since 1996. She studied painting in Hamburg and Düsseldorf and participated in the Cologne-based art scene in the 1980s. She currently divides her time between New York, NY and Marfa, TX.
Von Heyl's first survey show was at Le Consortium, Dijon in 2009. Her first U.S. museum show was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2005 and her first US survey was at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2011. In 2025, she will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Petzel Gallery, New York (2023); Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2021); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2018); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2018); Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2015); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2012); and Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg (2012).
von Heyl’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2024); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2024); Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023); Petzel Gallery (2023); Le Consortium, Dijon (2022); La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); The Broad, Los Angeles (2021); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (2021); The Kitchen New York (2020); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019); among many others.
Von Heyl's work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Yok; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris France; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; among others.
“I’m just trying to keep the paintings ahead of language. Or better yet, ahead of sentences. Nothing is truly beyond language, obviously. I just want to get the viewer to move past definitions and on to something more personal and fragile, a place where thoughts and feelings meet, where looking feels like thinking.”
Evelyn C. Hankins, “The Eye Is Always Game: A Conversation with Charline von Heyl,” Charline von Heyl – Snake Eyes, ed. Dirk Luckow (London: Koenig Books; Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2018)
Installation view, Whitney Biennial, 2014
1960 Born, Germany
1995 Moves to New York
1996 Begins showing with Petzel
2005 Concentrations 48: Charline von Heyl, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2009 Le Temps de Boire est Arrive’, Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
2011 Solo exhibition, ICA Philadelphia; ICA Boston
2013 Solo exhibition, Petzel, New York
2014 Whitney Biennial
Installation view, Petzel, 2018
2015 Düsseldorf: Paintings from the Early 90’s, Petzel, New York (catalogue)
Charline von Heyl, Why Not?, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (catalogue)
2018 Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (catalogue), Washington DC; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens, Deurle; Petzel
2021 Charline von Heyl, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, DE
Installation view, Petzel, 2018
Installation view, Petzel, 2018
Installation view, Charline von Heyl: Snake Eyes, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2018
Installation view, Whitney Biennial, 2014
Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2012
The George Economou Collection, Athens
June 14, 2025 – March 2026
