Charline Tyberghein

Biography

°1993, Antwerp, BE
Lives and works in Antwerp
Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2018.

Charline Tyberghein paints in the wake of the Brussels surrealists. Her works are witty, disrupted interventions. They are a joy to look at, playful in their simplicity, but her kind of humour is never without obligations. Her paintings are, as it were, crafted.

Her works have been presented in institutions such as the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, M HKA Antwerp and Beursschouwburg in Brussels. Her work is in the collections of the M HKA Antwerp, Vlaamse Gemeenschap and the Belfius collection.

Charline Tyberghein is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

°1993, Antwerp, BE
Lives and works in Antwerp
Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2018.

Charline Tyberghein paints in the wake of the Brussels surrealists. Her works are witty, disrupted interventions. They are a joy to look at, playful in their simplicity, but her kind of humour is never without obligations. Her paintings are, as it were, crafted.

Her works have been presented in institutions such as the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, M HKA Antwerp and Beursschouwburg in Brussels. Her work is in the collections of the M HKA Antwerp, Vlaamse Gemeenschap and the Belfius collection.

Charline Tyberghein is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

'Domestic Blitz', Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
Miart, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Milan, IT

2022

Artissima Art Fair, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Artissima, Torino, IT

2021

'Sugar and Spite', L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, ES
'Worrier Princess, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde', Antwerp, BE
'Born on the wrong side of the bed', Rotterdam, NL

2020

'Many drops make a puddle', Castor Gallery, London, UK

2019

'Born to be mild', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Nieuw-Zuid, Antwerp, BE
'Soft News', Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE

2018

'One Trick Phony, Next Door', Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp Belgium

2017

'ABC Lounge Klub', ABC Klubhuis, Antwerp, BE
'Jacques et Charline', Souterrain, Antwerp, BE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

'Vacation II', Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai, CN
'Making Fun', De Warande, Turnhout, BE
'Brick Games', L21 Gallery, Madrid, ES

2021

Booth ARCO Madrid, L21 Gallery, Madrid, ES
'Imagining Reality', Future Gallery, Berlin, DE
'Nature morte', The Hole, New York, USA
'Lipstick and Gas Masks', M HKA, Antwerp, BE
'Affiniteiten#3', LLS Paleis, Antwerp, BE

2020

'L'heure bleue', PLUS-ONE Gallery & Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'SECOND SMILE', The Hole, New York City, USA
'Cigarettes & Cookies', Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
Art Rotterdam, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Rotterdam, NL

2019

'My biggest small', Showhouse JayJay, Antwerp, BE
'Figuration Vs. Abstraction', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & Plus One Gallery, Art Brussels, BE
'Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2018

'Cook it, boil it, bake it, or forget it', Graduation Show KaskA and Sint Lucas, curated by Nadia Bijl, Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp, BE
'European Masters Salon Painting', Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
'From The Closet', ABC Klubuis, Antwerp, BE
'Schilderwerken', Souterrain, Antwerp, BE
'10 Years Base-Alpha: Part III Prospects', Base-Alpha, Antwerp, BE
'20 years NICC – Jubilee', NICC Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
'The Girls Next Door', curated by Nadia Bijl, Next Door| Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, BE

Prizes

2021

Acquisition for the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, M HKA, BE

2019

Acquisition for the Belfius collection
Acquisition for the collection of De Vlaamse Gemeenschap

2018

KOMASK prize, best young European Painter

Bibliography

2021

Test Department
Published by Triangle Books

2019

Modesty first: a talk with Charline Tyberghein
Published by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

Artworks

Charline Tyberghein
The little optimum, 2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
160 x 120 cm

Charline Tyberghein
Untitled, 2023
Acrylic paint on canvas
80 x 60 cm

Charline Tyberghein
Let's get this dread, 2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
180 x 150 cm

Charline Tyberghein
No to self, 2022
Acrylic paint on canvas
160 x 120 cm

Charline Tyberghein
Known Nonsense, 2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 110 cm

Charline Tyberghein
This Show is Cursed!, 2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 110 cm

Charline Tyberghein
The Weirdest Thing Happend, 2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 110 cm

Charline Tyberghein
Eat My Hat, 2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 110 cm

Charline Tyberghein
Where do we go from here, 2022
Oil and acrylic on canvas
150 x 140 cm

Charline Tyberghein
Yellow bellied buddies, 2021
Oil and acrylic on canvas
160 x 140 cm

News

Press

2019

The paintings of Charline Tyberghein are witty, disrupted interventions. They are a joy to look at, playful in their simplicity, but her kind of humor is never without obligations. Her paintings are, as it were, crafted.

She cherishes the belgitude. While painting in the wake of the Brussels surrealists her work is visually very pleasing, but there is an edge. She strives to tilt this aesthetic by confusing her paintings with common themes. They are populated by daily objects and symbols. In this way she generates a shift from art object to object of use. They hold ground between the everyday and the unattainable. You could best describe them as reading exercises: the surfaces of her paintings wrestle with the meaning underneath. Object and language, the material and the mental, intertwine and become confused. They are complex while looking dumbly simple.

While exhibiting, Charline seeks a connection with the surrounding space. Her paintings refer to the old trompe l’oeil techniques; they are often misleading optical illusions of space and perspective, but the actual surface is flat. She seeks for a way to inject sculptural elements into the two-dimensional paintings, to literally give them a new dimension.