Julia Stoschek


Julia Stoschek is a German art collector, specializing in time-based media art.

Career

Julia Stoschek was born in 1975, the daughter of Michael Stoschek, a German billionaire businessman, chairman of Brose Fahrzeugteile, the German car parts company founded by her great grandfather Max Brose, a Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany.
Stoschek first began buying art in 2003. Her collection features more than 850 works by about 250, mainly European and US artists working from the 1960s onwards and includes video, multi-media environments, internet-based installations and performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection in a former industrial building in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel opened in 2007, and has two floors of exhibition space, over. Within the first ten years from 2007 until 2017, the Julia Stoschek Collection staged 15 exhibitions, including solo shows of Cao Fei, Derek Jarman, Sturtevant, Wu Tsang and Cyprien Gaillard.
In 2016, the Julia Stoschek Collection opened a satellite exhibition space in a former Czech cultural center in Berlin. The space has in the past shown solo shows by artists including Arthur Jafa.
The Julia Stoschek Collection co-sponsored two exhibitions in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Fabrik curated by Florian Ebner and Faust by Anne Imhof.

Other activities

From 2006 until 2010, Stoschek was in a relationship with Andreas Gursky. From a later relationship with Mathias Döpfner between 2013 and 2018, she has a son.