Charlie Stein (German) lives and works in Berlin. Stein studied Fine Art at the State Academy in Stuttgart, where she graduated with a diploma and completed postgraduate studies as a Meisterschülerin. She also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and holds a degree in Social and Political Sciences and English from the University of Stuttgart. Her studies further include Chinese culture and economics at Tongji University in Shanghai. Her multidisciplinary practice examines how technology, visual culture, and systems of representation shape contemporary perception, identity, embodiment, and intimacy. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and text, Stein draws on extensive research to investigate the increasingly unstable boundaries between physical and virtual experience.
Solo exhibitions include Better Go South, Stuttgart, Germany (2025); Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Kunsthalle 2, CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2025); Light Under Pressure, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2025); Salon, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA (2024); Virtually Yours, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Memories Like Hurricanes, Kanya Kage, Berlin, Germany (2023); Artificial Tenderness, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); Flow My Tears, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Unimate, Evelyn Drewes Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Unimate, SMAC, Berlin, Germany (2021); First Day Above Ground, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021); Portrait of a Future, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, Germany (2021); Malerei 4.0, Kunstpreis Limburg, Limburg, Germany (2019); Amerika, Oberwelt E.V., Stuttgart, Germany (2018); One Show Closer to the End, Edenkoben, Germany (2017).
Group exhibitions include Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2026); Berlin Realists, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2025); Elastic Shields (duo show), Kunstverein Schorndorf, Germany (2025); EXPO Chicago with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, USA (2025); Horsing Around II, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (2025); Jott Hoch 2, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany (2025); Berliner Realistinnen, HaL, Berlin, Germany; Goodbye Horses, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, USA (2025); Ambidextrous Group Show 5, Ambidexter, Istanbul, Turkey (2025); It Would Be So Nice, Kunsthalle 8000, Zurich (2024–2025); Above the Sea of Air, Holitopia Festival for Arts & Futures, re:future lab, HTW Campus Wilhelminenhof, Berlin (2024); Sound & Vision, curated by Art On A Postcard, presented by War Child, 180 Studios, London (2024); Where the Wild Roses Grow, Schloss Görne, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); Blind Visions, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin, Germany (2022); Elb/Hängung #2, Villa am Elbhang, Hamburg, Germany (2022); Fivel, Valerius Art Gallery, Luxembourg (2022); Wow Now, Setareh, Berlin, Germany (2022); A Portrait of Spirits, Bark Berlin, Germany (2022).
Highlights and Awards
Charlie Stein has been selected for the 2026 Royal Academy Summer exhibition. In addition her work has been selected for consideration for the 2026 edition of the Strabag Art Award. Stein will join the Painting Diary Art Publication Residency in Vienna (March 2025) and the CCA Andratx Residency in Spain (August 2025). In 2024, Stein was a resident at ISCP in New York. Previous accolades include the Art Fond Foundation Berlin Development Grant (2022), the Painting 4.0 Art Prize (2019), and multiple prestigious residencies and nominations, such as Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and the Cultural Academy of Tarabya. Stein’s work is held in collections including the Telos Foundation (Switzerland), SMAC Berlin (Germany), Setareh Collection (Berlin), Australia China Art Foundation (Australia), Art Collection of Limburg (Netherlands), the Academy of the Arts Stuttgart (Germany), and the Jiménez-Colón Collection (Puerto Rico).