Charlie Stein

Charlie Stein (German) lives and works in Berlin. Practicing art for over 15 years, Stein holds a postgraduate and graduate degree in Fine Art from the State Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. Furthermore, Stein holds a graduate degree in Social Sciences and English at the University of Stuttgart, and has taken courses in Chinese culture and economics at the Tongji University in Shanghai. In her work Charlie Stein deals with dominant cultural aesthetics questioning existing modes of perception within the context of a highly digitized, visually overstimulated world. Her material is gathered through extensive research and translated into drawings, installations, sculptures, paintings and text. Her focus lies on social structures, digital media and contemporary forms of communication. 

Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Better Go South, Stuttgart, Germany (2025); (Upcoming) 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); The Dual Nature of Be, Do and Have, Delilah, NYC, USA (2017); Eye to Eye, Salon Neucologne E.V. Berlin, Germany (2015); Tea At The Carlyle, Pop Up Show, The Carlyle Hotel, New York City, USA (2015); Schlüsselangst, BBK Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany (2012).

Selected Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Berlin Realists, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2025); (Upcoming) Elastic Shields, duo show, Kunstverin Schorndorf, Germany (2025); (Upcoming) Horsing Around II, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (2025); (Upcoming) Jott Hoch 2, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany (2025);  Berliner Realistinnen, HaL, Berlin, GermanyGoodbye 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);  The Outside of the Inside, Bark Berlin Gallery, Germany (2021); Prognose, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (2021); Artificial Natures, Bark Berlin Galllery, Germany (2021); Behind the Scenes of Hidden Tracks, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany (2021); Perspectives, Re-Future Lab, Berlin, Germany (2020); Echt und Flash, Sculpture Triennial, Bingen, Germany (2020); Something True, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany (2020); Nebulous, Studio Baustelle Berlin, Germany (2020); _____Poetics, House of Poetics (in collab. With Cooper Union), New York, USA (2019); Artists & Allies II, Signs & Symbols Gallery, New York, USA (2019); Könnte aber doch, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (2019); Seitenweise Kunst, Scientific Library Mainz, Germany (2019); Essenz, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Schondorf, Germany (2018); Vehement, Villa Merkel Esslingen, Germany (2018); Vehement, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (2018); Kunstpreis Wessling, Wessling, Germany (2018); Academiae Youth Art Biennale, Fortezza Fanzensfeste, South Tirol, Italy (2018); 2017/2001/1987, Kunstverein Schonrndorf, Germany (2017); GröKaZs, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (2017); Imaginary Soundcloud, Regierungspräsidium Kassel, Germany (2017); Ichduersiees, Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany (2017).

 

Charlie 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 Telos Foundation (Switzerland), SMAC Berlin (Germany), Setareh Collection (Berlin), Australia China Art Foundation (Australia); Art Collection of Limburg (Netherlands) and the Academy of the Arts Stuttgart (Germany), Jiménez - Colón Collection (Puerto Rico).