Born 1957, Vienna, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
2024
It's a Capriccio, Diana*, Milan, Italy
your clouds your hair your laketown, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2023
Hypostasicisms, Layr, Vienna, Austria
El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico
2022
Ulysses, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2021
The Mephisto Hours, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
2020
Josef Strau: Spirits and Objects… and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
How to be an Angel Painter, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland
The Prototype, Gaga, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Tears And New Tears, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
2017
Invitation Epiphany, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2016
Rainy Day and Hundred of Water and Everything, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
“THE POSTORS”, Goton, Paris, France
Loyalties, House of Gaga, Mexico-City, Mexico
2015
A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment), Secession, Vienna, Austria
2014
Turtles + 8 Paintings + Yellow Brown Blue, Tempo Rubato, Tel Aviv, Israel
My Divid’ed House, Vilma Gold, London, UK
The New World, Application for Turtle Island, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, USA
2013
Greetings from our Garden of Condesa, The Jewels of Moctezuma, Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York, USA
Übersetzungsbüro – Office for Duplication, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
EDITION REPETION COMPETITION, House of Gaga, Mexico-City, Mexico
2012
Exercises ab initio…, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2011
3 Exercises: anrufen, bekennen, wegwerfen, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
The Balalaika Moment, dépendance, Bruxelles, Belgium
The Why Does This All Happen To Me Experience, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico
Vienna and Jerusalem (with Martin Guttman), Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria
2009
The Space of Words, MUDAM, Luxembourg
The Oriental Therapies, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
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, Germany
Iniquities Suspend, RowleyKennerk Gallery, Chicago, USA
2008
18 Iniqities, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
A Dissidence Coincidence But WHCTLJS, Mälmo Konsthall, Mälmo, Sweden
2007
Voices and Substitutes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Voices, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
The Tabernacle on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin, Germany
“Why Doesn’t my Plant Grow Anymore?” and Other Works of Lament (…), Vilma Gold, London, UK
Josef Strau, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Don’t Climb the Pyramids, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Invited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Bibliothekswohnung Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany
2002
Nazis of Suburbia, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
1998
a, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2023
Tous les jours, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2021
After all, a collection is only human, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens at Villa Vandenbussche, Tielt, Belgium
2020
Busan Biennale 2020: Words at an Exhibition–an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems,Busan, South Korea – curated by Jacob Fabricius
2019
Holly Village, Bodega, New York, USA
“Il est une fois dans l’Ouest”, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France
2018
Lampen, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
dog chews shoes, Ampersand, Lisbon, Portugal
Role Models, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New-Zealand – curated by Rob McKenzie
2017
Souvenir, Alto Refugio, Paternal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Section Littéraire, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
L’image, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland – curated by Vincent Romagny
Infected Foot, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Passages of Neo-Avantgarde, Austrian Culture Forum, Warsaw and at the polish institute, Budapest, Hungary
2016
“…and yet one more world”, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Night Thoughts, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of the Art, New York, USA
Quodlibet, Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium
The Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France – curated by Christine Macel, Elisabeth Suss man, and Elisabeth Sherman
Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Night Thoughts, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA– curated by Jody Graf
Poesie der Veränderung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2015
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
Welcome You’re in the Right Place, organized and designed by AIRBNB Pavilion, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphon ic Treatment), Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
2014
No Such Thing as History: Four Collections and One Artist, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany
Über Das Radikale Nebeneinander – On Radical Juxtaposition, Halle für Kunst, Luneburg, Germany
Abandon the Parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
House of Gaga presents Single Moms, Vilma Gold, London, UK
KARST, FAX, Plymouth, UK
The Promise, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial, UK, collaboration with Stefan Tcherepnin, Southard Reid, curated by Sarina Basta and Mary Rinebold, London, UK
2013
Letter Tunnels, Frieze Projects, London, UK
Pétrone/Pétrole, AIR DE PARIS, Paris, France
Some Redemptions, Soloway, New York, USA – curated by Josef Strau
X-Mas show, Galerie Franscesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland
Counter-Production (Part 2), Index – Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
The Whole Earth, Haus der Kulturen und der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2012
Florbelles (after Sade), Air de Paris, Paris, France
La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
Perros Negros Presents Perros Negros, A Post-Posteriori, New Jersey, Basel, Switzerland
Counter-Production, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Keine Zeit, 21er Haus – Belvedere Wien, Vienna, Austria
Context Message, Zach Feuer, New York, USA
How do it know?, Essex Street, New York, USA
Donde el lenguaje es al material, Casa del Lago, Mexico-City, Mexico
2011
Jahresgaben 2011 / 2012, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
Dystopia, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Time Again, Sculpture Centre, New York, USA
A Different Person, Badischer Kunstberein, Karlsruhe, Germany
True Faith, Andersen’s Contemporary Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
FAX, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, UK
2010
Novel, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
The Pursuer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
The Evryali Score, David Zwirner, New York, USA
The Baghdad Batteries, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, USA
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Negation, Subtraction, Dissolution, arranged by Front Desk Apparatus, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Josef Strau and Clegg&Guttman, Pro Choice, Vienna and Jerusalem, Austria and Israel
The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Light from Light, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China– curated by Kim Machan
The Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
2009
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
My Summer Show, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
evas arche und der feminist (carte blanche), The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Scorpio ́s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Looking Back, White Columns, New York, USA
The Space of Words, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2008
Manifesta 7, Trentino, Italy
One Season in Hell, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, Germany
Novel, Bibliothekswohnung Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany
iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity: R.H.Quaytman + Josef Strau , Vilma Gold, London, UK
Galerie Catherine Bastide and dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
“Neutre Intense. It ́s gonna rain”, Maison populaire, Montreuil,
France – curated by Christophe Gallois
2007
Secret-Flix, Neue Alte Brucke, Frankfurt, Germany
Years-In-Review-Installation, Vilma Gold, UK – organized by Joseph Strau
Door Slamming Festival, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, Germany – curated by Dominic Eichler
dépendance at Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Wonderwall—Constructing the Sublime, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan – curated by Anna Cathatina-Gebbers
Shandyismus, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria – curated by Helmut Draxler
New Domestic Landscape, Kjubh Kunstverein, Köln, Germany – curated by Caroline Nathusius
design by accident, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
2006
…:ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; curated by Bennett Simpson (Additional Venues: Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA, 2007)
Looking Back, White Columns, New York, USA
Next to Kin, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Minotaur Blood, Galerie Fortescue Avenue, London, UK – curated by Gionata Bonvicini
La maman et la putain, Air de Paris, Paris, France – curated by Eva Svennung
Our Marvellous Ambition, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany
Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2005
The Gone Wait, Gagosian Gallery Berlin, Germany – curated by Tobias Buche
Possession, Paul-Linke-Ufer, Berlin, Germany – curated by Dominique Eichler
2004
Mg, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Zeichnungen Werkleitzbiennale, Halle, Belgium – curated by Ariane M Fligen Arbeitsschutz, Wandbilder, WBD, Berlin, Germany
Editionen 4 Jahre WBD, Berlin, Germany
2003
Photo +, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
Photo +, Prague Biennale 1, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
The Nazis of Suburbia, (Ökonomien der Zeit) – curated by Hans-Christian
Dany and Astrid Wege, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Pictures, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
2000
The Inheritage, Video for Coal By Any Other Name, organized by S. Dillemuth, Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, USA
hey, international competition style, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands– curated by Amelie von Wulffen and Dirk Schmidt
Produktivität und Existenz, organized by Die Beute, Bethanienhaus, Berlin, Germany
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Snowflake Office, organized by C. Kr, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
1999
The Castle (with Amelie von Wulffen), Snowflake Office, Galerie Walbr Dorf
1998
SUUM SUUN AKVY `73, Laden Schillerstr. 32, Berlin, Germany
Kunstb60, Wien, Austria with The Nazis of Suburbia
1997
Die krumme Pranke, Video with A. Creischer, A. Siekmann, A. von Wulffen
1993
Friesenwall 120, Cologne, Germany co-curated with Stefan Dillemuth 1990-1993, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA (with S. Dillemuth)
Parallax View: New York-Cologne, P.S. 1, New York, USA
Four Walls, New York, USA (with S. Dillemuth)
1991
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
Kunstraum Daxer, M (with S. Dillemuth)
1990
Raum Masse 10, Hamburg, Germany (with C. von Bonin)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bundeskunstsammlung – The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Sammlung Generali Foundation - Permanent loan to Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2022
“Josef Strau. Spirits and Objects …and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…“, Eva Birkenstock (ed.), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022
2020
Strau, Josef: "Spirits and Objects… and How Non-Productive Love is Sometimes Contained in Them…",
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2020 (exhibition text)
2019
Strau, Josef: "Application for Turtle Island and a School Cannot Move" / "The Nonproductive Attitude", in: "Städelschule Lectures 1", Koenig Books, London 2019, pp. 157-183 / pp. 381-406
Strau, Josef: "How to be an Angel Painter", Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, 2019 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "The Prototype", Gaga, Los Angeles, 2019 (exhibition text)
Shalom, Enzo/Strau, Josef: "You Are Like Him: Josef Strau", in: Mousse Magazine, Summer 2019, pp. 46-47
2018
Strau, Josef: "Tears And New Tears", Greene Naftali, New York City, 2018 (exhibition brochure)
2017
Strau, Josef: "Michael Krebber", in: Meyer, Christian (ed.): "Das unbekannte Meisterwerk", Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna, 2017, pp. 32-45
Strau, Josef: "Invitation Epiphany", Künstlerhaus Bremen, February 2017 (exhibition text)
Gritz, Anna/Strau, Josef: "Das Universum erzählt sich selbst/The Universe Narrates Itself", in: Spike Art Quaterly, Spring 2017, pp. 124-138
2016
Strau, Josef: "Rainy day and hundred of water and everything", Dependance, Brussels, 2016 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Loyalties", House of Gaga, Mexico City, 2016 (exhibition text)
2015
Strau, Josef: "Dreaming Turtle”, Secession, Wien, 2015 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Isa Genzken: Sculpture as Narrative Urbanism (2009)", in: "Isa Genzken", October Files, MIT Press, Massachusets, 2015, pp. 183-189
Strau, Josef: "Apology", in: Dysfyction II, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, 2015, pp. 8-9
Strau, Josef: "Montezuma. Fell from Hell", in: Mousse, December-January 2014/2015, pp. 179-181
2014
Strau, Josef: "The New World 2: Travels in Turtle Island", The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2014 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "The New World 1: The Application", The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2014 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "The New World Application for Turtle Island", The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2014 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Pocahontas Alterations", in: Bryson, Fiona, Cytter, Keren and Van Voorheers, Roger (eds.): "Noon on the Moon", A.P.E (Art Projects Era), Rotterdam, 2014, pp. 26-27
Strau, Josef: "The Lamp and the Ribbon (2009)", in: Hudek, Antony (ed.): "The Object", Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, February, 2014, pp. 87-88
Strau, Josef: "My BC Years", in: "Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years", Koenig Books, Cologne, 2014, pp. 290-298 (catalogue)
2013
Strau, Josef: "Babeck’s Biograph (*Staten Island, 1992) - / 2. True Considerations / 3. Fell From Hell / 4. OSIP,the writer", in: "Lazy Susan", A.P.E (Art Projects Era), Rotterdam, 2013, pp. 28-34
Strau, Josef: "Diary", "La Vita E Una Altra Cosa", in: Bryson, Fiona, Cytter, Keren and Van Voorheers, Roger (eds.): “The Atlantis Search Engine“, A.P.E (Art Projects Era), Rotterdam, 2013, pp. 52-66, 68-75
"Josef Strau", in: "Ein Buch über das Sammeln und Ausstellen konzeptueller Kunst nach der Konzeptkunst", Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2013, pp. 506-509 (catalogue)
"Josef Strau", in: Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London 2013 (exhibition brochure)
Strau, Josef: "Übersetzungsburo - Office for Duplication", Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, 2013 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Edition, Repetition, Competition and Jewelry of Flowers and of Redemption", House of Gaga, Mexico City, 2013 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Some Redemptions", Soloway, New York City, 2013 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Mike Kelly", in: Artforum, May 2013, pp. 318-319
2012
Strau, Josef: Untitled, in: Olesen, Henrik: "Mr. Knife & Mrs. Fork", Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Verlag der Buchhaltung Walter König, Cologne, 2012, pp. 12-45 (exhibition catalogue)
"Transcript of a Conversation Between Colin De Land, Josef Strau, and Stephan Dillemuth", in: Knoll, Valerie; Loichinger, Hannes; Magnus Schaefer (eds.): "Dealing with – Some Texts, Images, and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co.", Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012, pp. 50-63
2010
Josef Strau: "The "why does this all happen to me experience"", House of Gaga, Mexico City, 2010 (exhibition text)
Josef Strau: "Lamp Memoirs", curated by Kim Machan, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Shanghai, 2010 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Alongside the abstract plane, dots and bangs of latent evidences and true relativity exposed", in: Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition, Serpentine Galleries, 2010 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "I felt my own transformation into a true moment of assistance", in: "Avere Luogo. Nora Schultz", Nero, Italy, 2010 (catalogue text)
Strau, Josef: "Why working together with an inner Voice", May, No. 4, June 2010, pp. 131-134
Interview with Dominik Eichler: "Out of Inconvenience", in: Mousse Magazine, April-May 2010, pp. 34-39
Strau, Josef: "Untersuchungen des Selbst - Über Birgit Megerle", in: Texte zur Kunst, March 2010, pp. 74-79
Strau, Josef: "Exploration of the Self - On Birgit Megerle", in: Texte zur Kunst, March 2010, pp. 126-128
2009
Interview with Christophe Gallois: "Commencer Cent Choses et Nén Achever Aucune / To Begin a Hundred Things and To Finish None", in: "The Space of Words", MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009, pp. 262-275 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "The Mount of J", in: "The Space of Words", MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009, pp. 290-298 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "the new year lamp müsli shop lamp letter.", in: "Berlin-Los Angeles. A Tale of Two (Other) Cities", Mousse Publishing, Milano, 2009 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Fell from Hell / Aus der Hölle Gefallen", in: Parkett, No. 85, 2009, pp. 33-34, 40
Strau, Josef: "Ei Arakawa: A Non-Administrative Performance Mystery / Ein nicht administratives Performance-Mysterium", in: Parkett, No. 84, 2009, pp. 158-168
2008
Strau, Josef: "Bad Conscience", in: “Novel“, Bibliothekswohnung, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, organised by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams, Berlin, 2008 (publication)
Strau, Josef: "Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter", in: Artforum, December 2008, p. 100
Strau, Josef: "Top Ten", in: Artforum, September 2008, pp. 183-184
Strau, Josef: "Grammatik des Unmöglichen", in: Tageszeitung, June 2, 2008, p. 15
2007
Strau, Josef: "The Bad Conscience", in: Krebber, Michael: "...ical Krbbr Prdly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra", Portikus, Frankfurt am Main / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2007, pp. 161-194 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "White Nights", in: "Shandyismus", Secession, Vienna, 2007 pp. 143-149 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Voices", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, 2007 (exhibition text)
Strau, Josef: "Mizmor l´Jacov", in: Manifesta 7, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy, 2007 (exhibition text)
2006
Strau, Josef: "The Non-productive Attitude", in: "MAKE YOUR OWN LIFE: Artists In & Out of Cologne", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2006, pp. 28-31 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "The Nazis of Suburbia", Berlin 2006 (artist publication)
Strau, Josef: "My Light / The-Cologne-In-Review-Lamp", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne 2006 (artist publication)
Strau, Josef: "The Bad Conscience", Bibliothekswohnung, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin 2006 (artist publication)
2005
Strau, Josef: "Die Anrufung/The Invocation", in: "Amelie von Wulffen", Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, 2005, pp. 149-157 (exhibition catalogue)
2004
Strau, Josef: "Dear Little Tiger", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln 2004 (artist publication)
Strau, Josef: "Genuss Luxus Stil. Sstems – ideological milieu", in: "Josef Kramhöller", Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, 2004, pp. 69-70 (exhibition catalogue)
2003
Strau, Josef: "White Nights", Pork Salad Press/Jacob Fabricius, Kobenhagen 2003 (artist publication)
Strau, Josef: "Cafe Voss", in: "Sergej Jensen/Stefan Müller", Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, 2003 pp. 32-36 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Haare wachsen, wie sie wollen", in: "Isa Genzken", Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König,
Köln, 2003 (catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Zitat und Künstlichkeit", in: fluter, January 30, 2003
Strau, Josef: "Josef Strau", in: "Prague Biennale 1: Peripheries Become the Center", Prague Biennale 1, National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Prague, 2003 (exhibition text)
2002
Strau, Josef: "Der Malstrom", in: Dany, Hans-Christian; Wege, Astrid (eds.): "Ökonomien der Zeit", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2002 pp. March 4-8 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "The Nazis of Suburbia", in: Dany, Hans-Christian; Wege, Astrid (eds.): "Ökonomien der Zeit", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2002 pp. August 10-17 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Giorgine und die Entspannung für die Nicht-Authentischen", in: Texte zur Kunst, December 2002, pp. 95-97
Strau, Josef: "B", in: Texte zur Kunst, March 2002, pp. 76-83
2001
Strau, Josef: "Die Favoritin", in: Metallic, Berlin 2001
Strau, Josef: "Das Auge der Verwesung / The Eye of Decay", in: "Josephine Pryde: Serena", Kunstverein Braunschweig 2001, pp 50-55 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Ruine und Mond", in: "Amelie von Wulffen: Museum der Römischen Geschichte", Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig 2001, pp. 15-16 (exhibition catalogue)
Strau, Josef: "Spuk am Waldsee", in: Texte zur Kunst, March 2001, pp. 114-117
2000
Strau, Josef: "Nostalghia of the bad architecture" / "Performing Monuments" / ""Genuss Luxus Stil. Sstems – ideological milieu" / "Fendi Life Essence", 2000 (artist book)
Strau, Josef: "Geheimnis der Mode", in: Texte zur Kunst, December 2000, pp. 170-172
Schmerler, Sarah: "Snowflake Office", in: Time Out, January 2000
1999
Strau, Josef: "Berliner Geschichten, ein Gang durch das Jüdische Museum", in: Texte zur Kunst, December 1999, pp. 146-152
1997
Strau, Josef: "Die wir soziale Intervention" (mit A. Siekmann), in: A.N.Y.P., Nr. 8, Berlin 1997
1996
Strau, Josef: "Kontinuität am Beispiel des Stadtplaners Roland Rainer", in: demontage Nr. 11, Wien, 1996
"Kultur für Alle", in: Messe 2ok, Köln, 1996
1992
"Ein Fax-Gespräch zwischen Stephan Dillemuth/Josef Strau und Margreiter/Mathias Poledna/Florian Pumhösl, Oktober 1991", in: Texte zur Kunst, Spring 1992, pp. 130-139
1991
Strau, Josef; Dillemuth, Stephan: "F-Space, Ludwigstraße 11", Kunstraum Daxer, München 1991 (exhibition brochure)
Strau, Josef: "Thomas Ruff", in: Texte zur Kunst, June 1991, pp. 181-182
Strau, Josef: "Friesenwall 120“, in: Texte zur Kunst, Spring, 1991, pp. 174-175
1988
Strau, Josef: "Übersetzungsbüro", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, 1988 (exhibition brochure)
2022
Josef Strau. Spirits and Objects …and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…, ed. by Eva Birkenstock, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
2018
Strau, Josef: Tears and New Tears, Greene Naftali, New York
2015
Banks, Eric (Hrsg.): Sammlung von Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner. New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
Buchmann, Sabeth, Helmut Draxler, Karol Kraus, et al.: to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: Artistic Practices around 1990, Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln
Strau, Josef: Dreaming Turtle, Secession, Wien
2014
Strau, Josef: The New World 1, The Applications, Renaissance Society, Chicago
Strau, Josef: The New World 2, Travels in Turtle Island, Renaissance Society, Chicago
2012
Knoll, Valérie; Loichinger, Hannes; Schäfer, Magnus (Hrsg.): Dealing With – Some Texts, Images and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co., Sternberg Press, 2012
2011
Time Again exh. catalog. Long Island City: Sculpture Center: 10-13.
2010
Strau, Josef. “Alongside the Abstract Plane, Dots and Bangs of Latent Evidence and True Relativity Exposed”, in Wolfgang Tillmans, Serpentine Gallery, London.
2008
Strau, Josef. A dissidence coincidence, but W.H.C.T.L.J.S. Malmo: Malmo Konsthall.
2006
Strau, Josef. My Light The-Cologne-in-Review-Lamp.
Strau, Josef. Nazis of Suburbia. New York: Greene Naftali.
Strau, Josef. Part III: The Bad Conscience. Lübeck: Anna-Catharina Gebbers.
Strau, Josef: "The Non-productive Attitude", in: Make your Own Life. Artists In and Out of Cologne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
2005
Die Anrufung/The Invocation, in: Amelie von Wulffen, Kunstverein Düsseldorf/Kunstmuseum Basel.
“Time structure and Passerbys” in Susanne Winterling, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2004
“Zu Josef Kramhöllers Buch” in Josef Kramhöller, Kunstverein Düsseldorf.
Strau, Josef. Part II: Dear Little Tiger. Berlin: Galerie Buchholz.
2003
Strau, Josef. “Cafe Voss” in Sergej Jensen/Stefan Müller, Kunstverein Braunschweig.
“Haare wachsen, wie sie wollen” in Isa Genzken, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne.
Strau, Josef. Part I: White nights. Copenhagen: Pork Salad Press.
1997
“Die wir soziale Intervention” (with A. Siekmann) A.N.Y.P., Berlin
1996
“Kultur für Alle,” Messe 2ok, Cologne. Strau, Josef.
“Kontinuität am Beispiel des Stadtplaners Roland Rainer” demontage Nr. 11, Wien