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Josef Strau |
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1957
Born Vienna, Austria
2002-present
Curator of Galerie Meerrettich in the Glass Pavillion at the
Volksb Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2004
Co-curated Now and Ten Years Ago Kunstwerke, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2010
The Balalaika Moment, Dependance, Brussels
The ‘why does this all happen to me’ Experience, House of Gaga, Mexico City
Josef Strau and Clegg&Guttman: Vienna and Jerusalem, Pro Choice, Wien
2009
The Oriental Therapies, Daniel Bucholz, Berlin
Vorschlag zur Erneuerung des Gedekens an den Tod des Autors und auch zur Gleichzeitigen Erweiterung durch die Leselampe der Schreiber, WHITE HEAT, presented by Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart/ Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart
Inquities Suspend, Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago
2008
18 Inquitites, Greene Naftali, New York
iamb: the limbo of vanity, Vilma Gold, London (with R.H. Quaytman)
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
2007
Voices and Substitutes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Voices, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Why Doesn’t My Plant Grow Anymore? Vilma Gold, London
Josef Strau, Dependance, Brussels
2006
Dont Climb the Pyramids, Greene Naftali, New York
c/o Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Ziegelstrasse, Berlin invited by Yilmaz Dziewior
2002
Nazis of Suburbia, Greene Naftali, New York
1998
a, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Group Exhibitions
2011
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dystopia; After 4000 Years Of Sci-Fi, CAPC, Bordeaux
A Different Person, Badischer Kunstverein, Germany
True Faith, Andersens Contemporary, Copenhagen
2010
Light from Light, curated by Kim Machan, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Shanghai
The Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz
Novel, Dependance, Brussels
Today I Made Nothing, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
The Pursuer, Greene Naftali, NY
The Evryali Score, David Zwirner, NY
The Baghdad Batteries, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City
At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hesel Museum of Art, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Negation/Sybtraction/Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk Apparatus, Kantor Gallery, LA
The Day Grew Dark, a lecture by Juliette Blightman from the “no re-admittance” series featuring Josef Strau, Chantal Akerman, Axel Wieder and New Order, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London
Josef Strau and Clegg and Guttman, Pro Choice, Vienna (with Clegg&Guttmann)
2009
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Space of Words, MUDAM, Luxemburg
Scorpio's Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin
Evas Arche und der Feminist (Cart Blanche), The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis
Galerie Lelong, New York
Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln
2008
Novel, Bibliothekswohnung, Anna-Catharina Gebbers curated by Matt Williams, Berlin
Galerie Catherine Bastide & Dependance, Brüssel
Manifesta 7, The European Biennal of Contemporary Art, Trentino, South Tyrol, Italy
One Season in Hell, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin
It's Gonna Rain, Maison populaire, Montreuil, France, curated by Christophe Gallois
2007
Shandyismus, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2006
...:ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA curated by Michael Krebber, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Looking Back, White Columns, New York
Next to Kin, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
La maman et la putain curated by Eva Svennung, Air de Paris, Paris
Our Marvellous Ambition, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; curated by Bennett Simpson (Additional Venues: Power Plant, Toronto; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2007); (catalogue)
Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden
2005
The Gone Wai, curated by Tobias Buche Gagosian Gallery Berlin,
Possession, Paul-Linke-Ufer, Berlin curated by Dominique Eichler
2004
Mg, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Zeichnungen, Werkleitzbiennale, Halle curated by Ariane MFligen Arbeitsschutz,Wandbilder, WBD, Berlin, Editionen 4 Jahre WBD, Berlin
2003
Photo +, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Photo +, Prague Biennale 1
2002
The Nazis of Suburbia, onomien der Zeit, curated by Hans-Christian Dany and Astrid Wege, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Pictures, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2000
The Inheritage, Video for Coal By Any Other Name, organized by S. Dillemuth, Colin De Land Fine Art, New York
hey, international competition style, TENT, Rotterdam curated by Amelie von Wulffen und Dirk Schmidt
Produktivit�und Existenz organized by “Die Beute”, Bethanienhaus, Berlin
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Snowflake Office organized by C. KrÔøΩ Greene Naftali Gallery, NewYork
1999
The Castle, (with Amelie von Wulffen), Snowflake Office, Galerie WalbrDorf
1998
SUUM SUUN AKVY `73, Laden Schillerstr. 32, Berlin
Kunstb60, Wien with The Nazis of Suburbia
1997
Die krumme Pranke, Video with A. Creischer, A. Siekmann, A. von Wulffen
1993
Friesenwall 120, Cologne, co-curated with Stefan Dillemuth 1990-1993
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York (with S. Dillemuth)
Parallax View: New York-Cologne at P.S. 1 Four Walls, New York (with S. Dillemuth)
1991
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Kunstraum Daxer, MÔøΩ (with S. Dillemuth)
1990
Raum Masse 10, Hamburg (with C. von Bonin)
Performances
2010
Laphroaig-Lagavulin-Margarita, Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau, public reading event, organised by Jay Sanders, Sculpture Center, New York
Vienna and Jerusalem, with Clegg/Guttmann, Lucy Indiana Dodd and Sergei Tcherepnin, Pro Choice, Vienna
2008
Grand Openings, with Ei Arakawa etc, MUMOK- Museum of Modern Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2007
Shandyismus with Sergei Jensen, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Riot at the Bar, with Sergei Jensen and Stephan Muller, curated by Ei Arakawa, NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2006
Meerrettich On Ice, organised by Josef Strau, Volksbuhne Sternfoyer am Rosa Luxembrug Platz, Berlin
Kunsthallfestival, with Sergei Jensen, KBH Kunsthall, Copenhagen
The Galleries Show, with Jay Sanders, Extra-City, Antwerp
2005
Alphabet with Paulina Olowska and Daniel Yamada, Joanna Zielinska, Galerie Meerettich, Berlin
Curation, Projects and Readings
2010
‘Laphroaig Lagavulin Magarita: Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau’ (public reading event), organized by Jay Sanders, Sculpture Center, New York
‘The Day Grew Dark’, a lecture by Juliette Blightman from the “no re-admittance” series featuring Josef Strau, Chantal Akerman, Axel Wieder and New Order, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2002-2008
Curator of Galerie Meerrettich in the Glass Pavillion at the Volksbühne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2004
Co-curated “Now and Ten Years Ago”, Kunstwerke, Berlin
1990-1993
Co-curated Friesenwall 120, Cologne, Germany
Bibliography and Published Texts
2011
Nordby Werno, Johanna, Nobody Can Tell The Why Of It, Artforum Critics Picks, August 2011
Haraldseth, Geir, No Body Can Tell The Why Of IT, Kaleidoscope Blog!, May 2011,
Aftenposten, June 2011
Semiotext, June 2011
Diary-Mousse Issue 28, April/May 2011
2010
Strau, Josef, ‘Alongside the Abstract Plane, Dots and Bangs of Latent Evidences and True Relativity Exposed’, in Wolfgang Tillmans, Serpentine Gallery, London
Strau, Josef, ‘Why Working Together With an Inner Voice’, May Magazine No.4, Paris, pp.131-137
Strau, Josef, ‘Exploration of the Self’, on Birgit Megerle, Texte Zur Kunst No.77, March, p.126-128
Strau, Josef, ‘Artist Project, No.21’ and interview, Mousse Magazine, Issue 23, April-May, p.77-79
Eichler, Dominic, ‘Out of Inconvenience: Josef Strau’, Mousse, Issue 3 April/May 2010, pp.34-39
Strau, Josef, ‘Alex Hubbard’, Bomb Magazine, no.111, Spring issue
2009
Krummel, Clemens, ‘Inklusive Pragung der Inititialen’, Texte zur Kunst, no.75, p.239 - 244
Prince, Mark, ‘Josef Strau: Daniel Bucholz’, Art in America, October, p.180
Strau, Josef, entry in ‘Transatlantic Statements’, Parkett, no.85, p.33-34
Holmqvist, Karl, ‘Josef Strau at Konsthall Malmo’, May Magazine, no.1, Paris
Sharp, Chris, ‘Josef Strau: A Dissidence of Coincidence But WHCTLJS’, Art on Paper, January-February
Kay, Elisabeth, ‘Gotham Art and Theatre’, artnet.com, January
‘Galleries: Chelsea, Josef Strau’, The New Yorker, Jan 12, p.10
Josef Strau, Daniel Bucholz, Art in America, October
Gallois, Christophe, 'The Space of Words', Mudam Luxembourg: Musee d'art Moderne Grand- Duc Jean, 2009
2008
Strau, Josef, ‘Ei Arakawa: A Non-Adminstrative Performance Mystery’, Parkett, no.84, pp.158-168
Burge, Russell, ‘Critics Pick: Josef Strau, Greene Naftali Gallery’, artforum.com, December
Strau, Josef, ‘Wolgang Tillmans: Lightere (Hamburger Banhof, Berlin), Artforum, December, p.100
Fiduccia, Joanna, ‘Josef Strau: Malmo Konsthall’, Artforum, December
The Artists’ Artists - Josef Strau, Artforum International: The Best of 2008, December, p.319
Gallois, Christophe, ‘Woorden en Dingen / Words and Objects’, Metropolis M, no.2, April/May, p.28-37
Strau, Josef, ‘Top Ten’, Artforum, September, pp.183 - 184
Schultz, Nora, ‘Top Ten: Josef Strau’s Posters’, Artforum, April p.194
van Kampen, Saskia, ‘Josef Strau: Voices and Substitutes’, Flash Art, January/February
2007
Filipovic, Elena, Josef Strau, Frieze, September
Lack, Jessica, Josef Strau, The Guardian Guide, May 5-11
Sumpter, Helen, My Space #2: Vilma Gold, Time Out London, May 2-8
Josef Strau, Afterall, Spring/Summer
Hermes, Manfred, Next to Kin, Frieze-Issue 104, January/February
2006
Cotter, Holland, Art in Review: Looking Back, The New York Times, Friday December 1
Ammirati, Domenick, Josef Strau, Modern Painters, September
Josef Strau, New Yorker, July 31
The Non-productive Attitude, Make Your Own Life: Artists in and out of Cologne, ICA Philadelphia exhibition catalogue
2005
Die Anrufung/The Invocation, Amelie von Wulffen, Kunstverein Dorf/Kunstmuseum Basel
Time structure and Passerbys, Susanne Winterling, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2004
Zu Josef Kramhrs Buch, Josef Kramhr, Kunstverein Dorf
2003
Cafe Voss, Sergej Jensen/Stefan M/, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Haare wachsen, wie sie wollen, Isa Genzken, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther K, Cologne
Zitat und Kchkeit, fluter
Giorgine und die Entspannung der Nicht-Authentischen in Texte zur Kunst 48
2002
B,Texte zur Kunst 45, Berlin 2002
Der Malstrom, onomien der Zeit, hrsg. HC Dany/Astrid Wege, Frankfurt/Main
2001
Die Favoritin, Metallic, Berlin
Das Auge der Verwesung, Serena, hrsg. Josephine Pryde, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Ruine und Mond, Museum der RÔøΩchen Geschichte hrsg. Amelie von Wulffen, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Spuk am Waldsee, Texte zur Kunst 41, Berlin
2000
Geheimnis der Mode, Texte zur Kunst 40, Berlin
1999
Ein Gang durch das Je Museum, Texte zur Kunst 36, Berlin
1997
Die wir soziale Intervention (with A. Siekmann) A.N.Y.P., Berlin
1996
Kontinuitam Beispiel des Stadtplaners Roland Rainer demontage Nr. 11, Wien
Kultur fe, Messe 2ok, Cologne