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