CCA Andratx is delighted to announce two solo exhibitions by Charlie Stein this fall, marking the artist’s first presentations in Spain.

The first exhibition „The Real Thing“ will take place at La Misericordia, as part of the Nit de l’Art program, in collaboration with ACCAIB, the Consell de Mallorca, and Art Palma Contemporani. The opening will be held on Saturday, September 20 from 6pm till 11pm.

The second exhibition “Everything Not Saved Will be Lost” will open on Friday, October 3, at the Kunsthalle 2 of CCA Andratx.

THE REAL THING Charlie Stein

Curated by Beatriz Escudero La Misericordia, Palma 20.09.25 – 22.11.25 Opening: Saturday September 20, 2025, 6pm-11pm

EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST Charlie Stein

Kunsthalle 2 03.10.25 – 20.12.25 Opening: Friday October 3, 2025, 5pm-8pm

TALK

Charlie Stein and Beatriz Escudero

Es Baluard, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 7pm A conversation between the artist Charlie Stein and the curator Beatriz Escudero will take place as part of the Nit de l’Art program at Es Baluard, Museum of Contemporary Art in Palma.

Stein’s works blur the boundaries between bodies and objects: padded lovers, latexed torsos, gloved hands — all rendered in luminous, surrealist detail. Her paintings archive fleeting sensations: skin under pressure, intimacy under threat, touch stored like heat in synthetic fabric.

In an age of impermanence, Stein insists on memory. Her canvases become analog hard drives — storing tenderness, resistance, and the shimmer of what refuses to be lost.

The exhibition “The Real Thing”, presented at La Misericordia, Palma, curated by Beatriz Escudero highlights a paradox of authenticity in an age of endless simulations, where bodies, images, and markets all try to manufacture aura. Moving between Russell Morris’s 1969 anthem and today’s algorithmic sublime, the artist asks what still persists in a world with less and less physical touch and more and more touchscreens.

In the body of work of the exhibition “Everything not saved will be lost”, shown at the Kunsthalle 2, CCA Andratx, Charlie Stein repurposes a now-iconic video game warning, “Everything not saved will be lost”, as both title and central omen. Originally a simple reminder to Nintendo players to save their progress, the message is here transformed into a metaphor for our precarious era: relationships fray, cultural memory fades, habitats vanish — without intentional acts of preservation, all is at risk of slipping through our fingers.

Stein’s paintings present figures and things that hover between the fetishistic and the familiar: a latex-coated torso, a gloved hand steadying a needle, padded beings locked in a tender, uncanny embrace. These bodies — gleaming, distorted, halfhumanoid — resist simple readability. They become objects among objects, containers for tension, desire, control and surrender.

Inside these lacquered bodies and synthetic lovers flickers a quiet urgency: what do we rescue when the world insists we forget? The padded lovers cling to one another like archival bundles; their embrace is both armor and wound. They speak of connection made monstrous or tender under the pressures of technological mediation, pandemic isolation, ecological fracture.

For more information, please contact:

Max Egger
Opalis Projects
Art Advisory
hello@opalisprojects.com

Virginie Pislot
CCA Art Manager
virginie@ccandratx.com