The Julia Stoschek Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of Digital Diaries, a reader published in conjunction with the exhibition Digital Diaries, curated by Line Ajan and running at the Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf until February 2, 2025. 

Gathering sixteen videos, photographs, and mixed-media or video sculptures by an intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition presents a partial picture of how feminist legacies of video and digital diaries have expanded formally, conceptually, and politically. The exhibition brings together  works by Alex Ayed, Sophie Calle and Greg Shephard, Sophie Gogl, Kristin Lucas, Sarah Lucas, Rindon Johnson, Jota Mombaça, Ken Okiishi, Hannah Perry, Frances Stark, Martine Syms, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tromarama, Hannah Wilke. 

This reader was envisioned as a continuation of the exhibition and brings together fourteen contributions by writers, artists, and curators. In addition to ten meditations on the works, from sharp analyses to poetic interpretations and creative writing, the publication includes several artistic responses: a poem by Jota Mombaça, a textual and photographic parallel to Wolfgang Tillmans’s work by Mona Varichon, and an email exchange between Line Ajan and Alex Ayed. 

Digital Diaries includes texts by Line Ajan, Boris Atrux­-Tallau, Alex Ayed, Jade Meili Barget, Harry C. H. Choi, Anahita Delcorde, Lou Ferrand, Amelia Groom, Olivia Kan­-Sperling, Kat Kitay, Christian Liclair, Lisa Long, Ingrid Luquet-­Gad, Jota Mombaça, Mona Varichon, Günseli Yalcinkaya. 

Published by Julia Stoschek Foundation / Editorial Concept by Line Ajan and Luise Pilz / English Editing by Hannah Gregory and Kat Black / German Editing by Luise Pilz / German Translation by Sabine Bürger, Tim Beeby, and Dominikus Müller for Jota Mombaça’s poem / Graphic Design by Bureau Borsche.

2024, English and German, softcover, 223 pages / ISBN: 978-3-9824531-2-5.

About the Julia Stoschek Foundation
Established in 2017, the Julia Stoschek Foundation is a nonprofit arts and culture organization dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of time-based art. 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.

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.

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