Julia Stoschek Foundation is proud to announce its first-ever Advisory Board. The board’s inaugural members are Meriem Bennani, Chrissie Iles, Arthur Jafa, Udo Kittelmann, and Andrea Lissoni.
Consisting of five individuals, the Advisory Board brings together some of the most respected artists and curators working in the field of time-based media art today. By creating a platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and by promoting institutional collaboration, the Advisory Board will extend the scope of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, which is dedicated to the presentation, mediation, conservation, and scholarship of media and performance practices.
The Julia Stoschek Foundation was established in 2017 and supports the public activities of the Julia Stoschek Collection, one of world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art.
“With the installment of an Advisory Board consisting of some of the most distinctive artists and curators in the field, it is my goal to strengthen the evolution of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, which I hope in turn continues to play a crucial role in the field of time-based art and ultimately on an even larger scale. I am extremely honored to have such an incredible group of individuals join me on this journey!” (Julia Stoschek)
Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high production aesthetics, she explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through strategies of magical realism and humor. Bennani’s work has been shown in New York at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, the Public Art Fund, The Kitchen, as well as at CLEARING (New York and Brussels), Art Dubai, The Vuitton Foundation (Paris), and in a solo exhibition at JSC Berlin in 2020.
Chrissie Iles (b. 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon) is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Her curatorial focus is moving-image art from the 1960s to the present, and she oversees the Whitney’s collection of film and video. Past exhibitions include co-curating the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials, Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1910–2016, Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation, and Cauleen Smith: Mutualities. She is a member of the Graduate Committee at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, a faculty member of the Curatorial Practice MA at the School of Visual Arts, and Visiting Critic in the Fine Art Department at Columbia University.
Arthur Jafa (b. 1960 in Tupelo, Mississippi) is an artist, filmmaker, and cinematographer. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artifacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Jafa’s films have garnered acclaim at the Los Angeles, New York, and Black Star film festivals and his artwork is represented in celebrated collections worldwide including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, High Museum Atlanta, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Stedelijk, Luma Foundation, Perez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Julia Stoschek Collection.
Udo Kittelmann (b. 1958 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a curator and museum director based in Berlin. Over the course of his career, he has investigated curatorial practices and institutions’ relationships with art. He focuses on the processes of art, its implicit laws and potential display configurations. He was the director at Kölnischer Kunstverein (1994-2001), Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt (2002-2008), and Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2008-2020), which comprises six museums among them Alte Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, and Hamburger Bahnhof. In 2021 he took on the position of artistic director of the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. Kittelmann was commissioner and curator of the German Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 and was awarded a Golden Lion for Gregor Schneider’s Totes Haus u r.
Andrea Lissoni (b. 1970 in Milan, Italy) has been artistic director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, since April 2020. Formerly Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, London, and previously curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan (2009–13), cofounder of the independent artistic network Xing, and codirector of the international festival Netmage in Bologna. In 2012 he cofounded Vdrome, an online screening program for artists and filmmakers, which he has since co-curated. Lissoni’s research concerns liveness, cinematic aspects of time-based artworks, the perception of time and forms of transmitting, sharing, and engaging with contemporary arts.
About the Julia Stoschek Collection & Foundation
Established in 2002, the Julia Stoschek Collection is one of the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art. With over 870 artworks by 290 artists from around the world, the collection’s contemporary focus is rooted in artists’ moving-image experiments from the 1960s and ’70s. Works in the collection span 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.
Public access to the collection is made possible through the support of the Julia Stoschek Foundation. Established by Julia Stoschek in 2017, the foundation is dedicated to the public presentation, mediation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of media and performance practices. It is a non-profit organization committed to enabling institutions, researchers, and artists around the globe to produce ambitious programs and pioneering projects in the field of time-based art. The foundation also guarantees the long-term conservation of the collection.
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