Collections Scharpff & Scharpff-Striebich

The Scharpff-Striebich Collection comprises contemporary painting as well as sculpture and installation works that bear a critical reference to the times. By globalizing and diversifying her collection, she adds to the bigger picture of her parents collection as well as art history.

Starting in the 1980s, the Scharpff Collection has been built and grown by the art collector couple Rudolf and Ute Scharpff. The initial focus was on American graffiti painting and socially critical art. Later the emphasis was to shift to collecting paintings.

Carolin Scharpff-Striebich studied business administration in Germany, the USA and France. Subsequently, she worked in the industry sector and taught marketing at the University of Applied Science in Karlsruhe. She lectures regularly on the topic of collecting contemporary art and has published the books “Let’s Talk Abstract” and “André Butzer. By Sammlung Scharpff”. 
Scharpff-Striebich is a member of various commissions as for example at the Tate Modern in London and at the steering committee of the Kunstsammlerverein in Berlin, she is chairwoman of society of the Friends of the Kunstmuseum Bonn as well as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Peter & Irene Ludwig Foundation, at the foundation council of the Kunsthalle Tübingen and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Since the death of her father in 2019, she has been chairwoman of the Rudolf and Ute Scharpff Foundation for Contemporary Art.