That she has made a substantial selection of her moving image collection available online seems a fortuitous move by Julia Stoschek, with news that rent increases may cause the closure of the collector and patron’s Berlin private foundation. Open since 2016 the arts space on Leipziger Strasse has proved popular, staging solo shows by artists including Arthur Jafa and Ian Cheng. Stoschek’s landlord is now asking for a considerable rent increase in light of renovations made to the facade of the building Welt reported, putting the non-profit private institution at risk. It’s not a fait accompli however and Stoschek took to social media to say ‘There are still a few more crucial conversations to be had.’
Whatever the outcome of these negotiations, the patron is planning to make public far more of her collection than could ever be fitted into a physical venue – even taking into consideration Stoschek’s second space in her home town of Dusseldorf. While both galleries have been temporary closed because of COVID-19, 63 film and video-based works by 21 artists from the collection have been made free to watch on the Julia Stoschek Collection website. Stoschek owns 860 works by 282 artists, so there’s more to be uploaded, but for now among the current works available are films by John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Keren Cytter, Jen DeNike, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Cao Fei, Fischli & Weiss, Kate Gilmore, Christian Jankowski, Lutz Mommartz, Elizabeth Price, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Tobias Zielony.
