CV
CV
Charlie Stein lives and works in Berlin.
GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2025 CCA Andratx Residency, Spain
2024 ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds Berlin – NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendien
2020 Villa Aurora, Artist Residency, Los Angeles (Shortlisted)
2019 Painting 4.0 – Art Prize of the City of Limburg, Germany
2018 Art Prize Wesseling (Shortlisted)
2018 Grant of the City of Esslingen for Cultural Development, Germany
2017 Residency at Herrenhaus Edenkoben
2016 Residency at Kulturakademie Tarabya
2016 Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Grant (Shortlisted)
2015 ACAF Residency Grant – Australia China Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
2014 Walther-Stöhrer Prize (Shortlisted)
2014 FöPS Prize for Social Sciences
2014 Residency at Trélex Residency, Switzerland
2013 Scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg to reside in Shanghai, China
2010 Klett-Passage Art Prize, Stuttgart, Germany
2010 DAAD Scholarship, Beijing, China
2008 Art Prize of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
LECTURES / TALKS
2024 Paul Brach Visiting Lecturer Calarts – California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles
2024 Visiting Professor Painting and Drawing (for Prof. Jorinde Voigt) at HfBK Hamburg
2024 Guest Lecturer “Art Publications”, Pratt Institute, New York
2023/24 Conversations about Pandora’s Box: Artistic and Sociological Perspectives on AI at UdK Berlin
2023 Can Machines Paint? Artificial Intelligence in the Contemporary Arts – The End of Human Creativity? HfBK Hamburg, Germany
2022 Digital Design – Lecturer at Epitech School of Digital Innovation
2022 Digital Arts – Lecturer for Artistic Practice, E-Artsup Paris, Ecole de Création Visuelle, Paris
2021 Appointment Lecture (2nd) – Professorship at HfBK Hamburg
2021 HORASIS Global Meeting, Panel Virtualizing Realities (Host: Simon Denny)
2021 Guest Lecturer, Artistic Professionalisation, Adk Weißensee, Berlin
2021 Guest Lecturer, Professional Practice, BBK Berlin
2021 Digital Arts – Lecturer for Artistic Practice, E-Artsup Paris
2020 Digital Design – Lecturer at Epitech School of Digital Innovation
2020 Digital Arts – Lecturer for Aesthetics and Visual Practice, E-Artsup Paris (Berlin Campus)
2019 New York: Pratt Institute – Lecture on Drawing (with Prof. Dr. Ashley Simone)
2014 Istanbul: CI Talks – Art Market in China (Moderation) (with Laure Raibaut, Yashian Schauble, and Ali Güreli)
STUDIES
2016-17 Postgraduate Studies Fine Arts (Meisterschüler), Advisors: Christian Jankowski, Dr. Thomas Girst
2009-2014 Graduate Studies Fine Arts, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, Germany
2013 Tongji University, Shanghai. Courses in Chinese Culture, Economics, and Language as part of an academic grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg
2007-2010 Graduate Studies Painting / Media Arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Munich; Class of Gerhard Merz, Class of Klaus vom Bruch
2008-2014 Graduate Studies Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Femme Atelier Peinture A Berlin/5 Taxis, 2024
Unimate, Exhibition Catalogue, 2022
Portraits of a Future Self, Exhibition Catalogue, 2022
First Day Above Ground, Exhibition Catalogue, 2022
Horst und Maria, König Books Ltd, 2018
Helle Kindheit / Dunkle Kindheit – Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Villa Rot, 2017
GröKaZs – Villa Merkel, Exhibition Catalogue, 2017
Querschnitt – Bund Bildender Künstlerinnen Baden-Württemberg, 2017
Delegierte Kunstwerke, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 2017
Transmembran, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunstverein Feuerbach, 2014
No Place to Hide, Exhibition Catalogue (Ed. Felix Ensslin and Ulf Aminde), 2013
COLLABORATIONS
2020 Black Flower, film project with Nina E. Schönefeld
2019 Unseen Images, with Andy Best
2017 Perfect Residents, with Christian Jankowski
2016 Some Demonstrations, with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, Pipilotti Rist, Santiago Sierra, and others
2016 Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Performance with Rocko Schamoni
COLLECTIONS
Telos Foundation
Setareh Collection
Kelterborn Collection
SMAC Berlin
Art Collection of the City of Limburg
Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Collection of the China Australia Art Foundation
Various national and international private collections
EXHIBITIONS
2025
(S) Light under Pressure, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024
It would be so nice, Kunsthalle 8000, Wädenswil, Switzerland
ISCP Annual Summer Open House, Open Studio, New York, USA
50×60 Group Show, curated by Jonas Burgert, SMAC, Berlin, Germany
The First, the Last and the Beauties, the Preuss Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
The Last Artwork. Vol. 2, Kunsthalle 8000, Switzerland
Dialog, Exhibition, CSR – Contemporary Show Room, Germany
Enter Art Fair 2024, Art Fair, Lokomotivværkstedet, Denmark
/kaz,op.arer.fon/, Group Show, Nizza Berlin, Germany
(S) Encrypted Bodies, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA
(S) Recombining Realities: Charlie Stein & Jorinde Voigt, Roam, Berlin, Germany
Horsing Around, Lake Galerie, Oldenburg, Germany
Women Reflecting Women, Sanji Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Liminal, Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
Melancholia, The Map Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2023
Virtually Yours, Solo Exhibition, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
(S) Like Burning Snow, Solo Exhibition, Kanya Kage, Berlin, Germany
Dragoner 1.0, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
Art Bad Gastein, sommer.frische.kunst, Bad Gastein, Austria
Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Goerne, Germany
Inside / Outside, Gallery Priska Pasquer, Paris, France
(S) Memories Like Hurricanes, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, Germany
(S) Artificial Tenderness, Art Karlsruhe / Bark Berlin Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
Après-Ski, Studio Mondial, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
FABRIK, Group Exhibition, Roam, Berlin, Germany
WHAAM! Action and Consequences, Group Exhibition, CSR.ART, Berlin, Germany
2022
A Portrait of Spirits, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin
Wow Now, Setareh, Berlin
2021
(S) Unimate, SMAC, Berlin
The Outside of the Inside, Bark Berlin Gallery, Germany
Direkte Auktion, Various Locations, Berlin, Germany
Prognose, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Nothing’s Gonna Change My World, Raum Www, Berlin, Germany
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Winds of Change, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Artificial Natures, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
(S) First Day Above Ground, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Behind the Scenes of Hidden Tracks, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
NFT Kitties LAB, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
(S) Portrait of a Future, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
Am I in Your Way? Plusfem Collective, Frankfurt
Hallelujah! God Is a Woman, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
Sotheby’s Charity Auction, Vienna
2020
Echt und Falsch, Sculpture Triennial, Bingen, Germany
Perspectives, Re
Lab, Berlin, Germany
Something True, Das Arty, Berlin, Germany
Nebulous, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany
2019
Poetics, House of Poetics (Cooper Union), New York, USA
Artists & Allies II, Signs & Symbols Gallery, New York, USA
(S) Malerei 4.0, Kunstpreis Limburg, Limburg
En Bloc, Galerie Nicole Gnesa, Munich
2018
Vehement, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
(S) Amerika, Oberwelt E.V., Stuttgart
Kunstpreis Wesseling, Wesseling
Academiae Youth Art Biennale, Fortezza Franzensfeste, South Tirol, Italy
2017
(S) One Show Closer to the End, Edenkoben
GröKaZs, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
Perfect Residents, Sinopale 6, Turkey
POSTERS, Blackball Projects, Williamsburg, NYC, USA
(S) The Dual Nature of Be, Do and Have, Delilah, NYC, USA
Ichduersiees, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
2016
Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland – Performance with Rocko Schamoni at Cabaret Voltaire (based on Andy Warhol’s Diary)
Death Can Dance – Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
Manifestina, initiated by Maurizio Cattelan, Zurich, Switzerland
Belrose Highlights, Sea Foundation of the Arts, Tilburg, Netherlands
Bum., Kunstverein Schorndorf, Germany
Sound and Space, BBK Stuttgart, Germany
Manifestina Goes Palermo, Palermo Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
La Rue des Arts, Tulle, France
Car Park, Das Arty, Berlin, Germany
Public Privacy (Curated by Alice Pedroletti), Shanghai, China
Different Ways, Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne, Ludwigsburg, Germany
2015
Paradise, ACAF Australia China Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
(S) Eye To Eye, Solo Show, Salon Neucologne e.V., Berlin, Germany
LOVE, Galerie Utopia, Athens Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2014
CI 90 Minute Shows, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Festival des Deutschen Kinos, Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
Continental Drift, Songjiang Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Urban Shades, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel (curated by Hadas Zucker)
Call of the Wild, Galleria Fuori Orbita, Locarno, Switzerland
Endlosschleife 2014/2041, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
UCLA: Untitled Art Cafe, UCLA Broad Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA
2013
No Place To Hide, Stuttgart, Germany (curated by Felix Ensslin and Ulf Aminde)
Im Glashaus, Jenseits von Jedem, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
Clair Obscur Filmfestival, Basel, Switzerland
Show Me Yours, I Show You Mine, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany
(S) Schlüsselangst, BBK Stuttgart, Germany
2010
Until You Don’t Like It Anymore, Forgotten Bar – Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
(S) Multi Level Analysis, Internationalgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2008
Mythos 68, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Warsaw
(S) Solo Show