Across two publicly accessible exhibition spaces in Berlin and Düsseldorf, the Julia Stoschek Foundation presents pioneering media and performance art in large-scale exhibitions and discursive events. The foundation also manages the Julia Stoschek Collection (est. 2002), one of the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art. Artworks from the collection have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Düsseldorf since 2007. In 2016, a second exhibition space opened in Berlin-Mitte. With over 900 artworks by 300 artists from the 1960s to today, the collection spans video, film, single- and multi- channel moving-image installation, multimedia environments, performance, sound, and virtual reality. Photography, sculpture, and painting supplement its time-based emphasis.

The upcoming group exhibition “After Images” at JSF Berlin proposes a recalibration of our relationship to contemporary image culture. The exhibition departs from the image-based practices like film and video for which the Julia Stoschek Foundation is best known, expanding the visual toward the haptic and multisensorial, and moving from the space of the screen to the embodied and experiential path of the viewer.

Predominant systems of knowledge have elevated sight above the other senses, despite how seeing is constituted from an amalgam of sensory feedback from the entire body. To question this hierarchy of sight above the other senses, “After Images” gathers works that classify as time-based art yet rely on materiality, texture, movement, and immersive experiences that employ sound, light, smell, and touch to convey meaning.

The exhibition will feature several new commissions, including a sound installation by Laurel Halo, an expansive sonic activation by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), an olfactory intervention by Chaveli Sifre, a large-scale installation by Lotus L. Kang, a site-specific sound sculpture by Jesse Stecklow, and a light intervention by Theresa Baumgartner, which will be installed throughout the JSF galleries. “After Images” is curated by Lisa Long, Artistic Director, with support from Line Ajan, Assistant Curator, and Josefin Granetoft, Curatorial Assistant, and underlines the role of the Julia Stoschek Foundation as an important place for contemporary art, combining current themes with aesthetic depth.