After Images

After Images features over 25 works, including six new commissions and interventions that embrace an expanded definition of time-based art.

The group exhibition After Images proposes a recalibration of our relationship to seeing and to contemporary image culture. Departing from image-based practices like film and video, for which the Julia Stoschek Foundation is best known, the exhibition expands the visual realm to encompass the haptic and the multisensorial, and moves from the space of the screen to the embodied and experiential path of the visitor. The featured works introduce a broad definition of time-based art, to include kinetic sculptures, sound and light installations, film-based installations, olfactory interventions, scores, and extended reality.

Predominant systems of knowledge have elevated sight above hearing, smell, touch, and taste, despite how seeing is constituted from an amalgam of sensory feedback from the entire body. To question this hierarchy of sight over the other senses, After Images gathers works that rely on materiality, texture, movement, and immersive experiences to convey meaning.

The exhibition features over thirty works, with seven new commissions by the artists Theresa Baumgartner, Laurel Halo, LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), Giovanna Repetto, Chaveli Sifre, and Jesse Stecklow.

Curated by Lisa Long, Artistic Director, with support from Line Ajan, Assistant Curator, and Josefin Granetoft, Curatorial Assistant

Artist list
Jo Baer, Rosa Barba, Theresa Baumgartner, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Laurel Halo, Lotus L. Kang, LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), Ghislaine Leung, David Medalla, Carsten Nicolai, Norbert Pape & Simon Speiser, Giovanna Repetto, Chaveli Sifre, Jesse Stecklow, Anicka Yi.

About the Julia Stoschek Foundation
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of time-based art. With two public exhibition spaces located in Berlin and Düsseldorf that feature cutting-edge media and performance practices, the foundation stewards one of the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art.

With over 900 artworks by 300 artists from around the globe, the Julia Stoschek 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 collection’s contemporary focus is rooted in artists’ moving image experiments from the 1960s and ’70s.

Press contact: press [​at​] jsfoundation.art.