About
For over twenty years, Charlie Koolhaas’ exhibitions have been immersive landscapes you can enter and explore – places where flat images are folded into three-dimensional structures offering infinite perspectives.
Charlie has authored various books that tell sociological stories by merging her images and writing into unified narratives. In 2020 she released her book City Lust, which combines writing and photography to take the viewer on a journey through the global economy.
Her recently launched Foto-Couture, which makes her prints wearable, further frees her photographs from the boundaries of art institutions allowing them to enter the world where their meaning continues to evolve.
Charlie has taught media theory and photography in various academic institutions such as Eindhoven School of design, TUDelft and the Sandberg Academy, and she has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Design, ETH Zurich and The Architectural Association London.
Teaching Experience
2022 – 2023
Workshop on magazine making, Contextual Design MA
Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2022
2018
2014
Education
2022 – 2023
2022
2018
2014
Solo Exhibitions
2013
City Folds
Cityscapes Gallery at the Raw Art Fair, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2013
True Cities
Vertigo gallery, TUEindhoven, Netherlands
2012
True Cities
Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
2011
True Cities
Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
2009
True Cities
AedesLAND Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2023
Art Central XL
Bannhof, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023
Strange
OMI, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020
The Mind Game
Het Niewe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019
West Side Stories Part 1 & 2
OMI Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017
BLUEPRINT
Whose urban appropriation is this? TENT Contemporary Art Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015
Pearl River Delta Revisited
Shenzhen Biennale, Shenzhen, China
2015
Praga Historical Museum, Warsaw Poland
2014
Photographs of Biblioteca Laurenziana
Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy
2013
More Dimensions
Cityscapes Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010
Get It Louder
Guangzhou, Shanghai & Beijing, China
2010
Tilt; Black and White
The Red Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2009
Shenzhen Biennale, Shenzhen, China
2009
Global Static
Sandler and Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia USA
2009
The World of Madelon Vriesendorp
SAM, Basel, Switzerland
2008
Mama Africa
Barbican, London, United Kingdom
2008
The World of Madelon Vriesendorp
Venice Biennale, Italy
2007
Get It Louder
Guangzhou, Shanghai & Beijing, China
2007
Dubai Next
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2006
Photographs of Cairo
Venice Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, Italy
Books
As Author
2020
Charlie Koolhaas, Scheidegger & Spiess AG
2016
What Happened in Rotterdam
Charlie Koolhaas, Intellectual Harmony Development
2012
Metabolism Trip
Charlie Koolhaas, Heibonsha Publishers
2011
Evolving Spaces
Ahmad Makia & Charlie Koolhaas, Brownbook Publishers
2008
True Cities
Exhibition Catalogue, AedesLand
Books
As Contributor
2021
50U
Archis Publishers
2013
In the Life of Cities
Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lars Muller publishers
2011
Project Japan
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rem Koolhaas, Taschen Books
2010
Ecological Urbanism
Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty, Lars Muller Publishers
2008
The World of Madelon Vriesendorp
Edited by Shumon Basar and Stephen Trueby, Architectural Association Press
2007
Post–it City
Edited by Marti Peran, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
2007
Shenzhen Special Investigation
Edited by Quinyun Ma, Hong Kong City Innovation Center Ltd.
2002
Interarchive
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Luneburg
Other Work
2013-2015
Praga Historical Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Curatorial Programme and exhibition design
2007
Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, Shenzhen, China
Co-Curator
2005-2008
UNIT Magazine, Guangzhou, China
Founder / Editor-in-Chief
2001–2004
TANK Publications, London, United Kingdom
Assistant Editor TANK magazine
2002–2005
Oxford Muse, London, United Kingdom
Photographer, Researcher
2004–2006
Offkey TV, London, United Kingdom
Co-founder and Designer, Development of a visual language for the mobile phone
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