Winter/spring 2024 program

Double Feature: Tarek Lakhrissi 
January 7–February 4, 2024, JSF Düsseldorf
January 13–March 31, 2024, JSF Berlin 

For the second iteration of Double Feature, a series of solo presentations featuring emerging artists that span JSF Berlin and Düsseldorf, three films by French artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi will take center stage. Through text, film, installation, and performance imbued with speculative potential, Lakhrissi explores sociopolitical narratives that relate to diasporic and queer embodied experience in Europe. Lakhrissi often sets his work in surrealist environments and gives them magical attributes, with an approach that seeks to transform situations. Curators:  Line Ajan and Lisa Long.

Lynn Hershman Leeson
Are Our Eyes Targets? 
April 10–December 15, 2024, JSF  Düsseldorf 

Press preview: Monday, April 8, 2024, 11am–1pm / Opening: Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 6–10pm. Are Our Eyes Targets? is the first solo exhibition by renowned artist and media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson in Düsseldorf. The exhibition, which is centered around the epic six-channel video installation The Electronic Diaries of Lynn Hershman Leeson 1984–2019, examines constructs of truth through self-reflection and the mediated image. In addition, the exhibition brings together interactive or mixed-media installations as well as photographs that further intensify our awareness of the violence of our own gaze. What does it mean to look at something or someone and be watched in return? 

Are Our Eyes Targets? will be accompanied by a screening series dedicated to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s feature films and documentaries, including Conceiving Ada (1998), Teknolust (2002), !Women Art Revolution (2010), and Tania Libre (2017), among others, which will take place on every first Thursday of the month. Curator: Lisa Long.

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@jsfoundation.art.