Julia Stoschek, one of the world’s top art collectors, is closing down the Berlin venue where she has displayed her extensive holdings of time-based art for the past decade.
Since 2016, the 3,000-square-meter exhibition space in the former Czech Cultural Center has hosted some 22 exhibitions and numerous public programs, as well as welcomed some 450,000 visitors. It will close its doors at the end of October 2026. The Stoschek Foundation will retain its Düsseldorf venue, which has been open since 2007.
Stoschek will also focus more on international presentations of her collection, such as the recent exhibition “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” in Los Angeles, organized by guest curator Udo Kittelmann, which ran for six weeks and saw more than 30,000 visitors. It included Marina Abramović, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Paul Chan, Maya Deren, Cyprien Gaillard, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Precious Okoyomon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sturtevant, and Jordan Wolfson, among others.
An ARTnews Top 200 collector, Stoschek says she won’t leave the German capital entirely. “Berlin remains a central point of reference for me—a city to which I feel deeply connected, and which has profoundly shaped the work of the Foundation. I am very grateful for the years we spent on Leipziger Straße,” says Stoschek in press materials.
There were already reports in 2020 that the Berlin venue could close as a result of surging real estate prices, as ARTnews reported. “There are considerations in this direction,” Stoschek said at the time, adding, “However, there are still a few more crucial conversations to be had.”
The Berlin venue has hosted solo shows of artists including Meriem Bennani, Ian Cheng, Stan Douglas, Arthur Jafa, Mark Leckey, and Jeremy Shaw, as well as group exhibitions.
Stoschek’s collection, managed by a foundation she established in 2002, includes over 1,000 works by 300 artists from the 1960s to the present, and brings together works created in mediums including video, film, installation, performance, and virtual reality.
