Julia Stoschek (born 1975) is a German socialite and art collector.

Career

Julia Stoschek was born in 1975, the daughter of Michael Stoschek, the German billionaire businessman and chairman of

Brose Fahrzeugteile Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG is an automotive supplier. The family-owned company has its headquarters in Coburg, Germany. In 2018, the Brose Group developed and produced mechatronic components and systems for vehicle doors, seats and bod ...

. Stoschek first began buying art in 2003.Anny Shaw (24 March 2016)
German collector Julia Stoschek to open satellite space in Berlin
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The Art Newspaper ''The Art Newspaper'' is a monthly print publication, with daily updates online, founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City. It covers news of the visual arts as they are affected by international politics and economics, developments ...

''. 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 Oberkassel ( li, Ueverkassel) is a part of Düsseldorf's Borough 4. Oberkassel lies on the west side of the river Rhine, the opposite side of the central district of Düsseldorf. It has an area of , and 19,052 inhabitants (2020). 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 Cao Fei ( zh, 曹斐; born 1978) is a Chinese multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Her work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution. Her work explores Chi ...

(2009),

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(2010), Sturtevant (2014), Wu Tsang (2015) and

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(2015). 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 (2018). The Julia Stoschek Collection co-sponsored two exhibitions in the German Pavilion at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

: ''Fabrik'' (2015) curated by Florian Ebner and ''Faust'' (2017) by

Anne Imhof Anne Imhof (born 1978 in Giessen, Germany) is a German visual artist, choreographer, and performance artist who lives and works between Frankfurt and Paris. She is best known for her endurance art, although she cites painting as central to her prac ...

Controversy

The source of Stochek's family fortune came under international scrutiny in 2022. Stochek's great-grandfather Max Brose, the founder of Brose Fahrzeugteile, was a member of the

Nazi Party The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...

and employed prisoners-of-war as slave laborers in his factory during World War II. He was designed a

Wehrwirtschaftsführer ''Wehrwirtschaftsführer'' (WeWiFü) were, during the time of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), executives of companies or big factories called ''rüstungswichtiger Betrieb'' (company important for the production of war materials). ''Wehrwirtschaft ...

by Nazi government. At the end of the war he was tried and convicted as a

Mitläufer A (plural , German for " fellow traveller") is a person (the German term has the male grammatical gender; to specifically indicate a female the -in suffix has to be added) believed to be tied to or passively sympathising of certain social movemen ...

Other activities

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's o ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018) *

Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art The KW Institute for Contemporary Art (also known as Kunst-Werke) is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijs ...

, Member of the Board (since 2015) *

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees *

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

, Member of the International Council (since 2015)

Recognition

* 2012 – Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award * 2018 – Art Cologne Prize

Personal life

From 2006 until 2010, Stoschek was in a relationship with

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works ...

. From 2011, she dated art dealer Max Mayer. She has a son with

Mathias Döpfner Mathias Döpfner (born 15 January 1963) is a German businessman and journalist. He is the CEO and 22% owner of media group Axel Springer SE, and president of the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV). Early li ...

, with whom she was in a relationship from 2013 to 2018.Diane Solway (20 November 2017)
The Ambitious Collector Julia Stoschek Is Single-Handedly Building One of the World’s Best Video Art Collections
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References

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