Julia Stoschek

Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf (2018)

Julia Stoschek was born in 1975,[1] 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.[2]

Stoschek first began buying art in 2003.[3] Her collection features more than 850 works by about 250, mainly European and US artists[4] working from the 1960s onwards and includes video, multi-media environments, internet-based installations and performance.[3] The Julia Stoschek Collection in a former industrial building in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel opened in 2007, and has two floors of exhibition space, over 2,500 square metres (27,000 square feet).[5] Within the first ten years from 2007 until 2017, the Julia Stoschek Collection staged 15 exhibitions,[6][7] including solo shows of Cao Fei (2009), Derek Jarman (2010),[8] Sturtevant (2014), Wu Tsang (2015) and Cyprien Gaillard (2015).[9]

In 2016, the Julia Stoschek Collection opened a satellite exhibition space in a former Czech cultural center in Berlin.[3] The space has in the past shown solo shows by artists including Arthur Jafa (2018).[10]

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.[11]

Stochek's great grandfather Max Brose employed prisoners-of-war as slave laborers in his factory during World War II. At the end of the war he was tried and convicted as a Mitläufer.[12]

Stoschek's father Michael Stoschek has been criticized for his attempt to rehabilitate Brose's image. In 2008 Stoschek used company money to hire the historian Gregor Schöllgen to write an unsubstantiated biography on Brose's life and the history of the firm, downplaying his association with the Nazi Party. Stoschek also withheld funds from the Christian Social Union, a political party in Coburg, until they agreed to name a street after Brose. Laws written in the denazifaction process prohibit streets from being named after Nazis.[13]

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018)[14][15][16]
• Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Member of the Board (since 2015)
• MoMA PS1, Member of the Board of Trustees[17]
• Tate, Member of the International Council (since 2015)[18]

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

From 2006 until 2010, Stoschek was in a relationship with Andreas Gursky. She has a son with Mathias Döpfner, with whom she was in a relationship from 2013 to 2018.[19][20]