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Lives
and works in Berlin
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
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, 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
2010
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
Galerie Catherine Bastide and dependence, Brussels
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
ProduktivitÔøΩund 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) Bibliography
and Published Texts
2010 Eichler, Dominic, ‘Out of Inconvenience: Josef Strau’, Mousse, Issue 3 April/May 2010,
pp.34-39
2009 Josef Strau, Daniel Bucholz, Art in America, October
2008 The Artists' Artists - Josef Strau, Artforum International: The Best of 2008, December
Josef Strau: A Dissidence Coincidence But W.H.C.T.L.J.S, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö 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,
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