Selected Exhibitions - Galerie Francesca Pia

2024

Ins Dunkle schwimmen – Abgründe des kreativen Imperativs, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
curated by Cosima Rainer & Robert Müller
October 16, 2024 – February 1, 2025

Installation view, *Ins Dunkle schwimmen. Abgründe des kreativen Imperativs*, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, 2024. Photo: Manuel Carreon Lopez

2023

Josef Strau, El Comercio de Lamentos Finos, House of Gaga, Mexico City
May 26 – July 7, 2023

Josef Strau, *The many Lives of Meteorites,* 2023, Tin, enamel and stones on canvas, 100 x 80 x 4 cm

Josef Strau, *The Lamp of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos*, 2023, Lamp, 76 x 148 x 65 cm

Josef Strau, *For Meteorites Magnetism erases Memory, so when the Meteor comes to you dont hold your Magnet against it,* 2023, Tin, acrylic, solder and stones on canvas, 100 x 80 x 4 cm

Josef Strau, *Trader of Idols expensive Regrets*, 2023, Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas, 100 x 130 x 4 cm

Josef Strau, *The Vitrine of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos,* 2023, Display showcase, adhesive photographs, mixed stones, 100 x 100 x 40 cm

Josef Strau, *Eternal Beauty of Observant Seraphic Meteors*, 2023, Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas, 80 x 60 x 4 cm

Josef Strau, *Stones Hope of the Hopes of Poverty*, 2023, Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas, 100 x 70 x 4 cm

Josef Strau, *Untitled*, 2023, Tin, enamel and stones on wood, 191 x 86.5 x 74 cm

2020

Josef Strau, Spirits and Objects...and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them...
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfahlen, Düsseldorf
September 3 – November 22, 2020

Installation view, Josef Strau, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfahlen, Düsseldorf, 2020

2019

Josef Strau, How to be an Angel Painter, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
June 6 – July 26, 2019

Press release

Installation view, Josef Strau, *How to be an Angel Painter*, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, 2019. Photo: Flavio Karrer

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 3*, 2019, Ballpoint pen, acrylic paint, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 45.6 x 35.5 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 5*, 2019, Pencil, ballpoint pen, acrylic paint, glue, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 40.6 x 30.5 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Alphabet H*, 2019, Pencil, ballpoint pen, marker, brass, tin and nails on wood panel, 71 x 61 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 8*, 2019, Ballpoint pen, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 40.5 x 30.5 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Alphabet G*, 2019, Pencil, ballpoint pen, marker, brass, tin and nails on wood panel, 101.6 x 81.3 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Alphabet F*, 2019, Pencil, ballpoint pen, marker, brass, tin and nails on wood panel, 76.2 x 68.6 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 6*, 2019, Pencil, ballpoint pen, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 45.6 x 35.5 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Alphabet V*, 2019, Pencil, ballpoint pen, marker, brass, tin and nails on wood panel, 71 x 63.5 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Alphabet R*, 2019, Ballpoint pen, marker, brass, tin and nails on wood panel, 91.5 x 76.3 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 13*, 2019, Acrylic paint, brass, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 30.4 x 22.8 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 10*, 2019, Glue, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 71 x 50.7 cm

Josef Strau, *Angel's Score 12*, 2019, Brass, tin and nails on gessoed canvas, 76.1 x 60.9 cm

Josef Strau, The Prototype, House of Gaga, Los Angeles
April 6 – June 1, 2019

Installation view, Josef Strau, *The Prototype*, House of Gaga, Los Angeles, 2019

2017

Section Littéraire, Kunsthalle Bern
August 12 – October 1, 2017

Josef Strau, Invitation Epiphany, Künstlerhaus Bremen
February 11 – April 30, 2017

Installation view, Josef Strau, *Invitation Epiphany*, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2017

2016

"...and yet one more world", Kunsthaus Hamburg
April 26 – June 26, 2016

Night Thoughts, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of the Art, New York
April 3 – 24, 2016

Installation view, *Night Thoughts*, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of the Art, New York, 2016

2015

Josef Strau, A Turtle Dreaming (… Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment), Secession, Vienna
April 24 – June 21, 2015