Collector Julia Stoschek Closes Down Berlin Exhibition Venue After 10 Years In Favor of International Projects
ARTnews reports that collector Julia Stoschek will close her Berlin exhibition venue at the end of October 2026 after 10 years, while continuing operations at her Düsseldorf space, open since 2007. The Berlin site, a 3,000-square-meter former Czech Cultural Center, has hosted about 22 exhibitions and numerous public programs since 2016 and has welcomed roughly 450,000 visitors. Stoschek said she will shift focus toward international presentations, citing the six-week Los Angeles show “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” curated by Udo Kittelmann, which drew more than 30,000 visitors and included artists such as Marina Abramović, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Arthur Jafa, Ana Mendieta, and Jordan Wolfson. Her foundation, established in 2002, manages a collection of more than 1,000 works by 300 artists spanning the 1960s to the present, and earlier reports in 2020 linked the possibility of a Berlin closure to rising real estate prices.
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