Julia Stoschek (born 1975) is a German socialite and art collector.
Early life and education
Julia Stoschek was born in 1975,
the daughter of
Michael Stoschek, a German billionaire businessman and chairman of Brose Fahrzeugteile.
Stoschek spent her childhood in Coburg. While in high school, she was a member of the national dressage squad. She studied business administration at the University of Bamberg and completed internships focusing on arts and cultural management in New York and Munich.[Anja Popovic (20 September 2004), Kunstsammlerin mit Röhrenjeans und Stilettos Die Welt.]
Art collection
Stoschek first began buying art in 2003.
[Anny Shaw (24 March 2016), German collector Julia Stoschek to open satellite space in Berlin The Art Newspaper.] Her collection features more than 850 works by about 250, mainly European and US artists
[Guy Chazan (26 July 2019), Ephemeral art: a private museum in Berlin dedicated to video Financial Times.] 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,
[Amah-Rose Abrams (13 June 2017), Julia Stoschek Collection celebrates 10 years with generation spanning video show The Art Newspaper.][Diane Solway (20 November 2017), The Ambitious Collector Julia Stoschek Is Single-Handedly Building One of the World’s Best Video Art Collections W.] including solo shows of
Cao Fei (2009),
Derek Jarman (2010),
[Gareth Harris (10 June 2016), Interview: video art collector Julia Stoschek Financial Times.] Sturtevant (2014),
Wu Tsang (2015) and
Cyprien Gaillard (2015).
[Gareth Harris (10 June 2016), Interview: video art collector Julia Stoschek Financial Times.]
In 2016, the Julia Stoschek Collection opened a satellite exhibition space in a former Czech cultural center in Berlin.[Paulina Czienskowski (24 March 2018), Berliner Spaziergang: Julia Stoschek, Berlins rastlose Mäzenin Berliner Morgenpost.]
The Julia Stoschek Collection co-sponsored two exhibitions in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Fabrik (2015) curated by Florian Ebner and Faust (2017) by Anne Imhof.[Diane Solway (20 November 2017), The Ambitious Collector Julia Stoschek Is Single-Handedly Building One of the World’s Best Video Art Collections W.]
In 2025, the Julia Stoschek Foundation announced plans to stage “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” its first major US presentation, held at the historic Variety Arts Theater in downtown Los Angeles and organized by curator Udo Kittelmann in 2026.[Daniel Cassady (20 November 2025), Julia Stoschek Foundation to Stage Ambitious Video Art Show in Historic LA Theater ARTnews.]
Other activities
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018)
[ Board of Trustees of MOCA Announces Five New Members Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, press release of 11 November 2018.][Jori Finkel (11 November 2018), New Director Expands MOCA’s Board With Four Global Members New York Times.][Alex Greenberger (12 November 2018), In Klaus Biesenbach’s First Move as Director, MOCA Los Angeles Adds Five Board Members ARTnews.]
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Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Member of the Board (since 2015)
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MoMA PS1, Member of the Board of Trustees
[Alex Greenberger (12 November 2018), In Klaus Biesenbach’s First Move as Director, MOCA Los Angeles Adds Five Board Members ARTnews.]
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Tate, Member of the International Council (since 2015)
[ Tate annual reports Tate.]
Recognition
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2012 – Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award
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2018 – Art Cologne
Personal life
From 2006 until 2010, Stoschek was in a relationship with artist
Andreas Gursky.
[Tim Ackermann (20 April 2008), Julia Stoschek sieht Kunstwerke als gute Drogen Die Welt.][Diane Solway (20 November 2017), The Ambitious Collector Julia Stoschek Is Single-Handedly Building One of the World’s Best Video Art Collections W.] From 2011, she dated art dealer Max Mayer.
[Helga Meister (5 April 2011), Stoschek & Mayer: Das neue Paar der Kunst Westdeutsche Zeitung.][Alexandra Wach (16 April 2011), Liebende soll man nicht aufhalten Die Welt.] She has a son with Mathias Döpfner, with whom she was in a relationship from 2013 to 2018.
[ Kunst verbindet Der Spiegel, 27 May 2013.][Diane Solway (20 November 2017), The Ambitious Collector Julia Stoschek Is Single-Handedly Building One of the World’s Best Video Art Collections W.]
