Background
Julia Stoschek was born in 1975, 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.
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Julia Stoschek was born in 1975, 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.
Stoschek first began buying art in 2003. Her collection features works by mainly European and United States artists working from the 1960s onwards and includes video, multi-media environments, internet-based installations and performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection in a former industrial building in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel opended in 2007, and has two floors of exhibition space, over 2,500 square metres (27,000 square feet).
Since the opening, she has mounted regular collection-based shows, including solo exhibitions on Cyprien Gaillard and Bruce Nauman.
In 2016, she announced plans to open a satellite exhibition space in a former Czechoslovakian cultural center in Berlin.
Stoschek also joined the member of the board of the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Artist