Julia Stoschek Foundation
Top European Collection of Media Art
The JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION is a private collection of contemporary international art with a focus on media art that reflects the time in which it was created. Some of the works have a documentary character and show performances that have become fixed in time through filming.
The private collection, founded in 2007, contains over 700 works by around 200 predominantly European and US artists. The various aspects of the collection's content are presented and documented in regularly changing exhibitions and their publications.
In its conception, the steadily growing collection focuses primarily on the moving image from the 1960s to the present day and encompasses a number of disciplines: video, single and multiple projections of analogue and digital film material, multimedia environments as well as computer and net-based installations, but also ephemeral art forms such as performances. The foundation not only pursues an archival approach, but also realises new video projects with various cooperation partners.
In addition to the Düsseldorf location, a branch in Berlin has been open to the public since June 2016. The exhibition space here covers 2,500 sqm and is located in Berlin-Mitte on Leipziger Strasse in the building complex of the former Czech Cultural Centre of the former GDR. Most recently, it was home to the club "Konzulát" and the office community Konzulat-Studios. With the opening of a branch in Berlin, the JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION is the first private collection in Germany to be open to the public in two places at once - in Düsseldorf and Berlin. That the Foundation is primarily concerned with accessibility and the mediation of the works is shown by the fact that some works and documentations can be accessed in the "Video Lounge" of its website.
With works by: Ed Atkins, Neïl Beloufa, Hannah Black, Ian Cheng, Loretta Fahrenholz, Cao Fei, Melanie Gilligan, Camille Henrot, Juliana Huxtable, K-HOLE, Josh Kline, Helen Marten, Jon Rafman, Rachel Rose, Timur Si-Qin, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, Britta Thie, Wu Tsang, Amir Yatziv
