Julia Stoschek Foundation

Established in 2017, the JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION is a non-profit arts and culture organization dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of time-based art. Across two publicly accessible exhibition spaces in Berlin and Düsseldorf, the JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION presents pioneering media and performance art in large-scale exhibitions and discursive events. The foundation also manages the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION (est. 2002), one of the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art.
With over 1,000 artworks by 300 artists from the 1960s to today, the collection spans video, film, single- and multi-channel moving image installation, multimedia environments, performance, sound, and virtual reality. Photography, sculpture, and painting supplement its time-based emphasis.
Accessibility and mediation are central to the Julia Stoschek Foundations mission. Artworks from the collection have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Germany, since 2007. In 2016, a second exhibition space opened in Berlin. Both spaces feature a wide-ranging outreach program, including guided tours, performances, screenings, lectures, artists’ talks, and workshops. Since 2019, unrestricted access to 200 works from the collection has been made available online (Video Lounge). In addition, two Research Rooms located in Düsseldorf and Berlin offer visitors and scholars the opportunity of viewing the entire collection and researching more than 4,000 publications in a reference library focusing on time-based art.

The JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION welcomes requests to lend artworks and contributes to exhibitions around the world. The foundation also invites artists and curators to develop projects and commissions. External collaborations with institutions in Germany and abroad also play a vital role. Past collaborations include Berliner Festspiele, Berlin; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden; MoMA PS1, New York; Performa Biennial, New York; Serpentine Galleries, London; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.

The conservation and care of time-based media is central to the foundation. Together with artists and galleries, the in-house conservation department has developed and implemented a state-of-the-art long-term archival strategy. To ensure long-term conservation and to prevent generation loss—the increasing deterioration in quality—the artworks are regularly examined and updated, and if necessary, migrated. This applies to both the data carriers and the data itself, the hardware and software, as well as monitoring data formats for obsolescence.

In 2019, the Curatorial & Research Residency Program (CRRP) was initiated by the JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION. The residency is aimed at students from Curatorial Studies programs around the world and is by invitation only. Past collaborations include the Center for Curatorial Studies (Bard College, New York), and the Curatorial Studies Program at the Goethe University and the Städelschule (Frankfurt/Main).

In 2023, the JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION established a long-term partnership with the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Students have access to the foundation’s infrastructure at both locations for presentation, research, and educational purposes. Since 2024, the foundation has been cooperating with The Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg