Charlie Stein (German, b. 1986) lives and works in Berlin. She 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. Stein works as a guest lecturer for the School of Digital Innovation Berlin and has given lectures at Pratt Institute in New York, E-Artsup-Paris and led the seminar "Painting in the Context of Contemporary Art" in 2022 at the HfBK Hamburg. 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) Kristin Hjelledjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2025); (Upcoming) 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) 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); Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter.Xyz, Istanbul, Turkey (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); Direkte Auktion, Various Locations, Berlin, Germany (2021); Prognose, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (2021); Winds of Change NFT Exhibition, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, Germany (2021); Artificial Natures, Bark Berlin Galllery, Germany (2021); Behind the Scenes of Hidden Tracks, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany (2021); NFT Kitties LAB, bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2021); Hallelujah!, God is a Woman, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg (2021); Sotheby’s Charity Auction, Vienna, Austria (2021); Perspectives, Re-Future Lab, Berlin, Germany (2020); Echt und Flash, Sculpture Triennial, Bingen, Germany (2020); Something True, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany (2020).