°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
'Domestic Blitz', Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN Miart, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Milan, IT
Solo booth at Artissima Art Fair, by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Artissima, Torino, IT
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
'Many drops make a puddle', Castor Gallery, London, UK
'Born to be mild', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Nieuw-Zuid, Antwerp, BE 'Soft News', Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
'One Trick Phony, Next Door', Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp Belgium
'ABC Lounge Klub', ABC Klubhuis, Antwerp, BE 'Jacques et Charline', Souterrain, Antwerp, BE
Selected Group Exhibitions
'Vacation II', Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai, CN 'Making Fun', De Warande, Turnhout, BE 'Brick Games', L21 Gallery, Madrid, ES
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, Anwterp, BE
'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
'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
'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
Acquisition for the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, M HKA, BE
Acquisition for the Belfius collection Acquisition for the collection of De Vlaamse Gemeenschap
KOMASK prize, best young European Painter
Miart, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Milan, IT
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
Modesty first: a talk with Charline Tyberghein
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.