Julia Stoschek Collection

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The Julia Stashed Collection is a private collection of contemporary art focused on media and video art, installations and photography.

The collection has found a new home in the former production facilities of the Conzen frame factory. The building, which celebrates its centenary this year, was redeveloped from top to toe by the architectural firm Kühn Malvezzi to meet the particular requirements of the collection.
"The redistribution of space has created an entirely new building within the old shell: the higher roof and addition of skylights and a roof terrace combine to make a very clear statement. This more vertical organization supports the building's new function as a live-in art warehouse and exhibition space. A large opening connects the two main exhibition rooms and a delicate stairway leads up to the spacious attic floor and roof deck, 23 metres above the ground. The way up and down is the key to the whole design - a building that is less an object to look at than a path to follow. It leads through dark and light spaces, from the little cinema on the ground floor, on through two different exhibition storeys and up to the top floor with its 12-metre ceiling." (Wilfried Kühn, Kühn Malvezzi)

Its new home provides the Julia Stoschek Collection with two exhibition floors open to the public. For the opening exhibition, entitled Destroy, she said, Julia Stoschek has assembled approximately 40 creative statements from international artists on the subjects of construction / deconstruction and interior / exterior.

Some may recognise the title Destroy, she said from the novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras (Destruire, dit elle). However, the exhibition's title actually owes more to the two-part video installation Destroy She Said by Monica Bonvicini from 1998, which examines the role of women in auteur films of the 50s to 70s in a compilation of selected excerpts. It is remarkable to see how, even at the very zenith of the feminist movement, women were still being stereotyped as helpless creatures.

represented artists

Doug Aitken      Francis Alÿs      Heike Baranowsky      Monica Bonvicini      Robert Boyd      Anthony Burdin      Jeff Burton      Paul Chan      Thomas Demand      Olafur Eliasson      Dara Friedman      Kate Gilmore      Douglas Gordon      Manuel Graf      Dan Graham      Natascha Sadr Haghighian      Mathilde ter Heijne      Jeppe Hein      Christian Jankowski      Joan Jonas

Jon Kessler      Mark Leckey      Klara Lidén      Gordon Matta-Clark      Anthony McCall      Adam McEwen      Bruce Nauman      Tony Oursler      Paul Pfeiffer      Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley      Pipilotti Rist      Taryn Simon      Robert Smithson      Kon Trubkovich      Bill Viola      Clemens von Wedemeyer      Aaron Young