Vilma Gold Josef Strau   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 ¬ìDie Beute¬î, 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, Cologne