1957 | born in Vienna, Austria |
Lives and works in New York |
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2023 | House of Gaga, El Comercio de Lamentos Finos, Mexico City |
2022 | Greene Naftali, Ulysses, New York |
2021 | Galerie Buchholz, The Mephisto Hours, Berlin |
2020 | Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Spirits and Objects...and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…, Dusseldorf |
2019 | Galerie Francesca Pia, How to be an Angel Painter, Zurich |
2018 | Greene Naftali, Tears and New Tears, New York |
2017 | Künstlerhaus Bremen, Invitation Epiphany, Bremen |
2016 | Dépendance, Rainyday and hundred of water and everything, Brussels |
2015 | Secession, A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment), Vienna |
2014 | The Renaissance Society, The New World Application for Turtle Island, Chicago |
2013 | House of Gaga, EDITION REPETITION, COMPETITION AND JEWELRY OF FLOWERS AND OF REDEMPTION, Mexico |
2011 | Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich |
2010 | Dépendance, The Balalaika Moment, Bruxelles |
2009 | Galerie Buchholz, The Oriental Therapies, Berlin |
2008 | Greene Naftali, 18Iniqities, New York |
2007 | Stedelijk Museum, Voices and Substitutes, Amsterdam |
2006 | Greene Naftali, Don’t Climb the Pyramids, New York |
2002 | Greene Naftali, Nazis of Suburbia, New York |
1998 | Galerie Christian Nagel, a, Cologne |
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2022 | Galerie Buchholz, Bells, Cologne |
2021 | Jahn und Jahn, Odd Vows, Jahn und Jahn hosting Galerie Francesca Pia, Munich |
2020 | Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan Biennale 2020, Busan |
2019 | Bodega, Holly Village, New York |
2018 | Galerie Francesca Pia, Lampen, Zurich |
2017 | Kunsthalle Bern, Section Littéraire, Bern |
2016 | CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Night Thoughts, New York |
2015 | Mumok, to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices around 1990, Vienna |
2014 | Vilma Gold, House of Gaga presents Single Moms, London |
2013 | AIR DE PARIS, Pétrone/Pétrole, Paris |
2012 | Centrum Kultury Zamek, The Castle in the Air – Seance of Imagination, Posen, Poland |
2011 | Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Berlin |
2010 | MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Light from Light, curated by Kim Machan, Shanghai |
2009 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles |
2008 | Vilma Gold, iamb: Through the Limbo of Vanity: R.H.Quaytman + Josef Strau, London |
2007 | Neue Alte Brucke, Secret-Flix, Frankfurt |
2006 | Portikus, ...:ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA, Frankfurt |
2005 | Gagosian Gallery Berlin, The Gone Wait, Berlin |
2004 | Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Mg, Cologne |
2003 | Greene Naftali Gallery, Photo +, New York |
2002 | Museum Ludwig, The Nazis of Suburbia, (Ökonomien der Zeit), Cologne |
2000 | Colin de Land Fine Art, The Inheritage, Video for Coal By Any Other Name, New York |
1999 | The Castle (with Amelie von Wulffen), Galerie Walbr, Snowflake Office, Dorf |
1998 | Laden Schillerstr. SUUM SUUN AKVY 73, 32, Berlin |
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 |
1991 | Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne |
1990 | Raum Masse 10, (with C. von Bonin) Hamburg |
Performances & Projects organized, curated and co-curated (selection)
2019 | Galerie Francesca Pia, End of the Road, Zurich |
2010 | Laphroaig – Lagavulin – Magarita, Charles Bernstein and Josef Strau, (public reading event), organized by Jay Sanders, Sculpture Center, New York |
2008 | Grand Openings, with Ei Arakawa etc. MUMOK – Museum Modern Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna |
2007 | Shandyismus with Sergej Jensen, Wiener Secession, Vienna |
2006 | „Meerrettich On Ice“, organized by Josef Strau, Volksbühne Sternfoyer am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin |
2005 | Alphabet with Paulina Olowska and Daniel Yamada, Joanna Zielinska, Galerie Merrettich, Berlin |
Public Collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris |