Julia Stoschek: ‘I’m not collecting for my living room’

The German collector has amassed one of the world’s most comprehensive bodies of media art with private institutions in Dusseldorf and Berlin


In this episode of ‘Meet the collectors’, German collector Julia Stoschek leads us on a tour of the Dusseldorf and Berlin spaces hosting her vast collection. The automotive heiress’s passion for time and media-based art began in the early aughts when she encountered  Douglas Gordon’s Play Dead; Real Time (this way, that way, the other way) (2003) at Gagosian, New York. Since then, she’s gathered an ever-growing trove of over 900 works by more than 300 artists. With works dating back to the 1960s, it includes the likes of Nam June PaikPipilotti RistMark LeckeyKeren Cytter, and Wu Tsang. ‘I don’t have an art advisor and I don’t have an advising gallery,’ she reveals in this video, ‘what I love most is advice from other artists.’ ‘I’m absolutely driven by contemporaneity,’ she continues, when considering her strategy. ‘What I try to do with the collection is create an image of the social and cultural conditions of my generation.’

Director and Producer: Adrian Kelterborn
DOP: Brigitte Fässler (Düsseldorf), Tilo Hauke (Berlin)
Sound Engineer, Sound Design, and Mix: Jeroen Van Vulpen
Editor: Genevieve Chanel Mathis
Production Company: Prismago Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
Commissioned by Alicia Reuter and Jeanne-Salomé Rochat for Art Basel


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