Charline von Heyl
June 29, 2025 - January 4, 2026 | The Albertina Museum, Vienna
Charline von Heyl, Bait Ball, 2017
The Viehof Collection is one of the most important private collections in Germany, whose focus is undoubtedly on the art of its own country, with a special focus on those artists who shaped the Rhineland and its art centers of Cologne and Düsseldorf as a nucleus of the avant-garde of international importance. 24 artist positions were selected for the major spring exhibition in order to present the development of German painting and sculpture after 1960.
The show presents an overview of the depth of this collection: from Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, who stand for the “cheeky”, socially critical art of the 1960s, to that of the 1980s, which was shaped by Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Katharina Sieverding, to the field of figurative and abstract art of the 21st century, which is represented by works by Neo Rauch, Daniel Richter, Isa Genzken and Katharina Grosse.