Charlie Stein

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Charlie Stein

born in Waiblingen, Germany

lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2008-2014 Graduate Studies Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
2007-2010 Graduate Studies Painting, Media Arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Munich; Class of Gerhard Merz, Class of Klaus vom Bruch
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
2016-17 Postgraduate Studies Fine Arts (Meisterschüler), Advisors: Christian Jankowski, Dr. Thomas Girst

Exhibitions

2025
Charlie Stein, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London United Kingdom (SOLO)

2024
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, Exhibition, 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
Encrypted Bodies, Solo Exhibition, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA
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
Like Burning Snow, Solo Exhibition, Kanya Kage, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Dragoner 1.0, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
Art Badgastein, sommer.frische.kunst, Bad Gastein, Austria
Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Goerne, Germany
Die Geister Die ich rief, Project Space Kimgo, Berlin, Germany
Inside / Outside, Gallery Priska Pasquer, Paris, France
Memories Like Hurricanes, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, Germany (SOLO)
Artificial Tenderness, Art Karlsruhe / Bark Berlin Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany, (SOLO)
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
Flow My Tears, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Unimate, Evelyn Drewes Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (SOLO)
Blind Visions, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin, Germany
Elb/Hängung #2, Villa am Elbhang, Hamburg, Germany
Contemporary Istanbul, Ambidexter.xyz, Istanbul, Turkey
Five!, Valerius Art Gallery Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Wow Now, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany
A Portrait of Spirits, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2021
Unimate, Smac, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
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
First Day Above Ground, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Behind the scenes of hidden tracks, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
NFT Kitties LAB, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Portrait of a Future, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, Germany (SOLO)
Am I in Your Way? Plusfem Collective, Frankfurt, Germany
Hallelujah! God is a Woman, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
Sotheby’s Charity Auction, Vienna, Austria

2020
Perspectives, Re-Future Lab, Berlin, Germany
Echt und Falsch, Sculpture Triennial, Bingen, Germany
Nebulous, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany
Something True, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany

2019
L’Artiste et les Commissaires, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
Jagdgründe, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Germany
Poetics, House of Poetics (in collaboration with Cooper Union), New York, USA
Malerei 4.0, Kunstpreis Limburg, Limburg, Germany (SOLO)
Artists & Allies II , Signs & Symbols Gallery, New York, USA
Seitenweise Kunst, Scientific Library Mainz, Germany
Könnte aber doch, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
En Bloc, Galerie AG, Schwerin, Germany
En Bloc. Galerie Nicole Gnesa, Munich, Germany
All Out. Kwadrat Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2018
Vehement, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Zebradorf. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Schlaglichter zeitgenössischer Kunst, Kunstraum Zumhof, Germany
Amerika, Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart, Germany (SOLO)
Kunstpreis Wesseling, Wesseling, Germany
Demis-Gros, Les Valseuses, Berlin, Germany
Academiae Youth Art Biennale, Fortezza Franzensfeste, South Tirol, Italy

2017
001530, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Germany
One Show Closer To The End, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Germany (SOLO)
Querschnitt, BBK Stuttgart, Germany
GröKaZs, Villa Merkel. Esslingen, Germany
Helle Kindheit, Dunkle Kindheit, Museum Villa Rot. Rot, Germany
The Perfect Residents (Collaboration with Christian Jankowski), Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
The Perfect Residents (Collaboration with Christian Jankowski), Sinopale 6, Sinop, Turkey
POSTER, Blackball Projects. Williamsburg, NYC, USA
Imaginary Soundcloud, Regierungspräsidium Kassel, Germany
(S) The Dual Nature of Be, Done and Have, 155 Rivington, New York City, USA
Mermaids and Unicorns. Curated by Tina Sauerländer, Online Exhibition
Ichduersiees, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany

2016
Bum, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Germany
Sound and Space, BBK BW, Stuttgart, Germany
Manifestina goes Palermo, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Cockfight, Manifesta 11, Cabaret der Künstler, Zunfthaus Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
NICHTS, Performance with Rocko Schamoni, Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
Death can dance – Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
Manifestina, (initiated by Maurizio Cattelan) Zurich, Switzerland
Trâme de soi, Tulle, France
Car Park, Das Arty, Berlin, Germany
Public Privacy, Studio 6 (Curated by Alice Pedroletti) Shanghai, China
Belrose Highlights, Sea Foundation of the Arts, Tilburg, Netherlands
Different Ways, Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Call of the Wild, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany

2015
Paradise, ACAF Australia China Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
Parade, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Mare Nostrum. Kunstverein Schorndorf, Germany
Eye To Eye, Solo Show, Salon Neucologne E.V. Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Tea At The Carlyle, Pop Up, The Carlyle Hotel, New York City, USA
LOVE, Galerie Utopia, Athina Art Fair, Athens, Greece
Artrusk Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2014
Talent Borrows Genius Steals, Pop Up, Stuttgar, Germany (SOLO)
CI 90 Minute Shows, (Curated by Marcus Graf) Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
FILMZ – Festival des deutschen Kinos, Gutenberg Museum Mainz, Germany
Continental Drift, Songjiang Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Clair Obscur Filmfestival, Basel, China
Urban Shades, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel
Tansmembran: Social Bodies And Their Framing, Kunstverein Feuerbach, Germany
Call of the Wild, Galleria Fuori Orbita, Locarno, Switzerland
Endlossschleife 2014 / 2041, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, German
UCLA: Untitled Art Cafe, UCLA Broad Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA
Just Episoden, Calwer Passage, Stuttgart, Germany

2013
Im Glashaus (Curator), Galerie Jenseits Von Jedem, Stuttgart, Germany
No Place To Hide. Arbeitsamt Stuttgart, Germany

2012
Clair Obscur Filmfestival, Basel, Switzerland

2011
Show Me Yours, I Show You Mine, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany

2010
Schlüsselangst, Solo Show, BBK E.V., Stuttgart, Germany (SOLO)
Preis der Klett-Passage, Stuttgart, Germany
Multi Level Analysis, Internationalgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

2008
Mythos 68, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Warsaw, Poland

Grants

2008 Art Prize of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2010 Klett-Passage Art Prize, Stuttgart, Germany
2014 Walther-Stöhrer Prize (Shortlisted)
2014 FöPS Prize for Social Sciences
2015 ACAF Residency Grant – Australia China Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
2016 Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Grant (Shortlisted)
2018 Grant of the City of Esslingen for Cultural Development, Germany
2018 Art Prize Wesseling (Shortlisted)
2019 Painting 4.0 – Art Prize of the City of Limburg, Germany

Publications

2013 No Place to Hide, Exhibition Catalogue (Ed. Felix Ensslin and Ulf Aminde)
2014 Transmembran, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunstverein Feuerbach
2017 Helle Kindheit / Dunkle Kindheit, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Villa Rot, 2017
2017 GröKaZs, Villa Merkel, Exhibition Catalogue
2017 Querschnitt, Bund Bildender Künstlerinnen Baden-Württemberg
2017 Delegierte Kunstwerke, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
2018 Horst und Maria, König Books Ltd
2022 First Day Above Ground, Exhibition Catalogue
2022 Portraits of a Future Self, Exhibition Catalogue
2022 Unimate, Exhibition Catalogue
2024 Femme Atelier Peinture A Berlin/5 Taxis

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

Residencies and Scholarships

2010 DAAD Scholarship, Beijing, China
2013 Scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg to reside in Shanghai, China
2014 Residency at Trélex Residency, Switzerland
2016 Residency at Kulturakademie Tarabya
2017 Residency at Herrenhaus Edenkoben
2020 Villa Aurora, Artist Residency, Los Angeles (Shortlisted)
2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds Berlin – NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendien
2024 ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2025 CCA Andratx Residency, Spain

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