Charline von Heyl

Charline von Heyl (b. 1960, Germany) lives and works in between New York, NY and Marfa, TX. She studied painting in Hamburg and Düsseldorf and participated in the Cologne-based art scene in the 1980s. The Giddy Road to Ruin is currently on view at the George Economou Collection in Athens in June, focusing on works from the 1990s to the present and curated by Adam Weinberg and Skarlet Smatana. Her paintings were featured in the 59th Biennale di Venezia (2022). von Heyl has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (2018); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2018); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2018); Tate Liverpool (2012); Kunsthalle Nürnberg (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2011); Le Consortium, Dijon (2009); Dallas Museum of Art (2005); and Vienna Secession (2004), among many others.

von Heyl’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; 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.