Charlie Koolhaas

Charlie Koolhaas (*London, lives in Rotterdam) is an artist, author, and sociologist. In her interdisciplinary practice, she combines photography, urbanism, and critical theory to create multifaceted reflections on the city, globalization, and cultural identity. Her works—often presented as books, installations, or expansive visual worlds—emerge from years of documentary fieldwork in cities such as Dubai, Lagos, Guangzhou, and Rotterdam. Koolhaas's perspective is both analytical and personal; she deconstructs stereotypical narratives and reveals the poetic complexity of the urban.

She studied sociology in New York and media art at Goldsmiths College in London. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Melly Art Institute in Rotterdam, Munich, Dubai, Warsaw, and Beijing. Her highly acclaimed book , City Lust , was published in 2020 and brings together her photographic and theoretical exploration of globalized metropolises.

Charlie Koolhaas

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The exhibition ARTIFICIAL? Traces of the Present brings together works that question our perception. Reality appears not as a given, but as something that is constantly being appropriated. ARTIFICIAL? questions whether what we see and experience is not always already made, constructed, and mediated.