Charlie Stein

Charlie Stein is a visual artist and scholar. Her practice encompasses drawings, installations, sculptures, paintings and text, which question existing modes of perception within the context of a highly digitized, visually overstimulated world. Stein’s focus lies on social structures, digital media and contemporary forms of communication, utilizing mediums such as filter technology, blockchain, artificial intelligence and social media to explore the intersection of painting and technology. She holds a postgraduate and graduate degree in Fine Art from the State Academy in Stuttgart, Germany, as well as a graduate degree in Social Sciences and English at the University of Stuttgart. Stein also works as a guest lecturer for the School of Digital Innovation Berlin and at the HfBK Hamburg, where she is a guest professor for painting and drawing.

Charlie Stein (German, b. 1986) lives and works in Berlin. She 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 2024 Stein was a recipient of the ISCP program in New York and in 2022, she was awarded a grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Berlin. Her work has been showcased internationally at venues such as Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London, the Songjiang Art Museum in Shanghai, the Museum Villa Merkel in Esslingen, and the Sculpture dTriennial in Bingen.