A month after closing its Berlin exhibition space, the Julia Stoschek Foundation, a nonprofit arts organisation set up by the German collector and businesswoman Julia Stoschek, announced it will reopen its Dusseldorf headquarters in April 2027.
The Dusseldorf space closed for renovation in 2025. The inaugural exhibition in the newly revamped space, called Selfish in Bed, is curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, formerly the director of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and features works by 43 artists from the foundation’s collection. The foundation’s more than 1,000-piece collection is focused primarily on time-based art—including video, film, moving-image installations, multimedia work, performance, sound work and virtual reality work.
“Seeing the collection continue to grow and welcoming new audiences two decades on brings me enormous joy,” Stoschek said in a statement. “And I can think of no better home for it than Düsseldorf, a city where art has been part of everyday life for generations.”
Stoschek’s Berlin space operated for ten years from June 2016 to October 2026. It hosted 22 exhibitions and drew 500,000 visitors. In April, the foundation said the closure was the result of a “strategic realignment” and that it would “now focus on international projects in order to make the collection accessible to a global audience.”
The Dusseldorf reopening marks the foundation’s 20th anniversary.
Selfish in Bed, which will run from 10 April to 19 December 2027, takes its name from a 2000 self-portrait by Sarah Lucas. Other artists who will feature in the exhibition include Wolfgang Tillmans, Bill Viola, Simon Fujiwara, Rosemarie Trockel and Tracey Emin.
