Charline von Heyl
September 4 – October 25, 2025 | Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Charline von Heyl’s debut exhibition at Xavier Hufkens presents a dynamic suite of new paintings, works on paper, and lithographs that pulse with invention, wit, and formal tension. Long regarded as a vital force in contemporary painting, von Heyl conjures a visual universe that is as expansive as it is unpredictable. What emerges is a protean body of work: restless, confident, mercurial, and alive with inquiry and mischief.
von Heyl is a visual acrobat. Throughout the exhibition, she demonstrates a rare painterly dexterity: the ability to choreograph chaos without taming it. Each painting she makes poses a new formal puzzle. At the core of her practice is a belief in painting as a living form of knowledge — generative, volatile and perpetually in motion. Each canvas becomes a site of experimentation: never conclusive, always open. Her works offer not answers, but propositions. In doing so, they pose a deeper question: what can painting do now?