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Galerie Francesca Pia
Josef Strau
1957
born in Vienna
Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2016
2015
2014
2013
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2002
1998
Gaga Arte Contemporaneo, Loyalties, Mexico City
Secession, Josef Strau, Wien
Vilma Gold, My Divid'ed House, London
The Renaissance Society, The New World. Application for Turtle Island, Chicago
House of Gaga, EDITION, REPETITION, COMPETITION AND JEWELERY OF
FLOWERS AND OF REDEMPTION, Mexico
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
Dependance, The Balalaika Moment, Brussels
House of Gaga, The Why Does This All Happen To Me Experience, Mexico City
Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem (with Martin Guttman), Vienna
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, The Oriental Therapies, Berlin
Vorschlag zur Erneuerung des Gedenkens an den Tod des Autors und auch zur
gleichzeitigen Erweiterung durch die Leselampe der Schreiber, WHITE HEAT,
presented by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart/ Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart
RowleyKennerk Gallery, Iniquities Suspend, Chicago
Greene Naftali, 18Iniqities, New York
Malmö Konsthall, A Dissidence Coincidence But WHCTLJS, Malmö
Stedelijk Museum, Voices and Substitutes, Amsterdam
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Voices, Cologne
Institut im Glaspavillon, The Tabernacle on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Vilma Gold, London Dependance, “Why Doesn’t my Plant Grow Anymore?” and
Other Works of Lament (...), Brussels
Greene Naftali, Don’t Climb the Pyramids, New York
c/o Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Ziegelstrasse, Berlin invited by Yilmaz Dziewior
Greene Naftali, Nazis of Suburbia, New York
Galerie Christian Nagel, a, Cologne
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2016
2015–2016
Kunsthaus Hamburg, "...and yet one more world", Hamburg
Mumok, to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices
around 1990, Vienna
Galerie Francesca Pia
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
KARST, FAX, Plymouth
Arnolfini, The Promise, Bristol
Liverpool Biennial, collaboration with Stefan Tcherepnin
Southard Reid, Staging Interruptions (Stream of Life), curated by Sarina Basta
and Mary Rinebold, London
Halle für Kunst, Über Das Radikale Nebeneinander, Luneburg
Frieze Projects, London
AIR DE PARIS, Pétrone/Pétrole, Paris
Soloway, Some Redemptions, New York (The show is curated by Josef Strau;
including artists: Ei Arakawa, Tomer Aluf, Keren Cyttern, Henrik Olesen, Jose
Rojas, Ulla Rossek, Nora Schultz, Josef Strau, Stephan Tcherepnin, Antek
Walczak
Galerie Francesca Pia, X-Mas show, Zurich
INDEX- Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, COUNTER-PRODUCTION,
Stockholm
Generali Foundation, Counter-Production, Vienna
Belvedere Wien, Keine Zeit, Vienna
Galerie Francesca Pia, La demeure joyeuse II, Zurich
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Berlin
1857, Nobody can tell the why of it, curated by Esperanza Rosales, Oslo
CAPC, Musee d’art contemporain, Dystopia, cur. by Mark von Schlegell,
Bordeaux
Sculpture Centre, Time Again, New York
Badischer Kunstverein, A Different Person, Karlsruhe
Andersen’s Contemporary Copenhagen, True Faith, Copenhagen
MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Light from
Light, cur. by Kim Machan, Shanghai
Camera Austria, The Milk Drop Coronet, Graz
Dependance, Novel, Brussels
Greene Naftali Gallery, The Pursuer, New York
David Zwirner, The Evryali Score, New York
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baghdad Batteries, Long Island City,
Queens
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, At Home/Not At Home:
Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, NY
Kantor Gallery, Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk
Apparatus, Los Angeles
Pro Choice, Josef Strau and Clegg&Guttman, Vienna and Jerusalem
Vilma Gold, The Inhabitants, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions
, Los Angeles
Galerie Lelong, My Summer Show, Paris
The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, evas arche und der feminist (carte
blanche), St. Louis
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Scorpio’s Garden, Berlin
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, The Space of Words, Luxembourg
Galerie Francesca Pia
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
1997
Vilma Gold, iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity: R.H.Quaytman + Josef Strau,
London, UK
Galerie Catherine Bastide and Dépendance, Brussels
Greene Naftali, Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, New York
Trentino, Manifesta 7, Italy
Mehringdamm 72, One Season in Hell, Berlin
Maison populaire, “Neutre Intense. It’s gonna rain”, Montreuil, curated by
Christophe Gallois
Neue Alte Brucke, Secret-Flix, Frankfurt
Vilma Gold, Years-In-Review-Installation, organized by Joseph Strau
Mehringdamm 72, Door Slamming Festival, Berlin, curated by Dominic Eichler
Galerie Neu, dependence at Galerie Neu, Berlin
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Wonderwall—Constructing the Sublime, Tokyo, cur. by
Anna Cathatina-Gebbers
Wiener Secession, Shandyismus, Vienna, cur. by Helmut Draxler
Kjubh Kunstverein, New Domestic Landscape, Cologne
Croy Nielsen, design by accident, Berlin
Portikus, ...:ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA,
Frankfurt
White Columns, Looking Back, New York
Daniel Buchholz, Next to Kin, Cologne
Galerie Fortescue Avenue, Minotaur Blood, London
Air de Paris, La maman et la putain, Paris
Vilma Gold Project Space, Our Marvellous Ambition, Berlin
Institute of Contemporary Art, Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne,
Philadelphia; cur. by Bennett Simpson (Additional Venues: Power Plant, Toronto;
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2007)
Kunsthaus Dresden, Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Dresden
Gagosian Gallery Berlin, The Gone Wait, Berlin
Paul-Linke-Ufer, Possession, Berlin
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Mg, Cologne
Zeichnungen Werkleitzbiennale, Halle cur. by Ariane M Fligen Arbeitsschutz,
Wandbilder, WBD, Berlin
Editionen 4 Jahre WBD, Berlin
Greene Naftali Gallery, Photo +, New York
Prague Biennale 1, Photo +, Prague
Museum Ludwig, The Nazis of Suburbia, (Ökonomien der Zeit), Cologne
Colin De Land Fine Art, The Inheritage, Video for Coal By Any Other Name, New
York
TENT, hey, international competition style, Rotterdam
Bethanienhaus, Produktivität und Existenz, organized by Die Beute, Berlin
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Greene Naftali Gallery, Snowflake Office, organized by C. Kr, New York
The Castle (with Amelie von Wulffen), Galerie Walbr, Snowflake Office, Dorf
Laden Schillerstr. SUUM SUUN AKVY 73, 32, Berlin
Kunstb60, Wien with The Nazis of Suburbia
Die krumme Pranke, Video with A. Creischer, A. Siekmann, A. von Wulffen
Galerie Francesca Pia
1993
1991
1990
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, P.S. 1
Four Walls, New York (with S. Dillemuth)
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Kunstraum Daxer, M (with S. Dillemuth)
Raum Masse 10, Hamburg (with C. von Bonin)
Performances and Projects organized, curated and co-curated (selection)
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005
Laphroaig – Lagavulin – Magarita, Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau (public
reading event), organized by Jay Sanders, Sculpture Center, New York
Vienna and Jerusalem, with Clegg/Guttmann, Lucy Indiana Dodd and Sergei
Tcherepnin Pro Choice, Vienna
Grand Openings, with Ei Arakawa etc. MUMOK – Museum Modern Kunst,
Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Shandyismus with Sergej Jensen, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Riot the Bar, with Sergej Jensen and Stephan Müller, curated by Ei Arakawa,
NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
„Meerrettich On Ice“, organized by Josef Strau, Volksbühne Sternfoyer am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Kunsthallfestival, with Sergej Jensen, KBH Kunsthall, Copenhagen
The Galleries Show, with Jay Sanders Extra-City, Antwerp
Alphabet with Paulina Olowska and Daniel Yamada, Joanna Zielinska, Galerie
Merrettich, Berlin