your clouds your hair your laketown, dépendance, Brussels (BE)
It’s a Capriccio, Diana*, Milan (IT)

Hypostasicisms, Layr, Vienna (AT)
El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, House of Gaga, Mexico-City (MEX)

Ulysses, Greene Naftali, New York (US)

The Mephisto Hours, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (DE)

Spirits and Objects… and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes Contained in Them…, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE)

How to be an Angel Painter, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (CH)

The Prototype, House of Gaga, Los Angeles (US)

Tears and New Tears, Greene Naftali, New York (US)

Invitation Epiphany, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen (DE)

Rainy Day and Hundred of Water and Everything, dépendance, Brussels (BEL)

Loyalties, House of Gaga, Mexico-City (MEX)

A Turtle Dreaming (... Echoes from an Encapsulated Space Exiled Sounds of Letters Requiring Symphonic Treatment), Secession, Vienna (AT)

Turtles + 8 Paintings + Yellow Brown Blue, Tempo Rubato, Tel Aviv (ISR)

The New World, Application for Turtle Island, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (US)

Greetings from our Garden of Condesa, The Jewels of Moctezuma, Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York (US)

Übersetzungsbüro – Office for Duplication, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin EDITION REPETION COMPETITION, House of Gaga, Mexico-City (MEX)

Exercises ab initio..., Greene Naftali, New York (US)

3 Exercises: anrufen, bekennen, wegwerfen, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (CH)

Vienna and Jerusalem (mit Martin Guttman), Pro Choice, Vienna (AT)

The Space of Words, MUDAM, Luxembourg (LUX)

A Dissidence Coincidence But WHCTLJS, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (SWE)

Voices and Substitutes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

The Tabernacle on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin (DE)

Don’t Climb the Pyramids, Greene Naftali, New York (US)

Invited by Yilmaz Dziewior, Bibliothekswohnung Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin (DE)

Ins Dunkle schwimmen, Abysses of the Creative Imperative, University Gallery of the Angewandte, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (AT)

Identität nicht nachgewiesen, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)

New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)

Words at an Exhibition — an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Busan Biennale, Busan (KOR)

dog chews shoes, Ampersand, Lisbon (PORT)

Role Models, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (NZ)

Souvenir, Alto Refugio, Paternal, Buenos Aires (AR)

Section Litt.raire, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (CH)

Passages of Neo-Avantgarde, Austrian Cultural Forum, Warschau und im Polnischen Institut, Budapest (HUN)

The Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)

Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (FR)

Night Thoughts, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (US)

Poesie der Ver.nderung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (AT)

Und eine Welt noch, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)

to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (AT)

Turtles plus eight Paintings plus Yellow Brown Blue, Tempo Rubato, Tel Aviv (ISR)

No Such Thing as History: Four Collections and One Artist, Espace Louis Vuitton, München (DE)

On Radical Juxtaposition, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (DE)

Abandon the Parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen (DNK)

A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK)

The Promise, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)

Counter-Production (Part 2), Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (SE)

Some Redemptions, curated by Josef Strau, Soloway, New York (US)

The Whole Earth, Haus der Kulturen und der Welt, Berlin (DE)

Letter Tunnels, Frieze, London (UK)

Florbelles (after Sade), Air de Paris, Paris (FR)

La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (CH)

Perros Negros Presents Perros Negros, A Post-Posteriori, New Jersey, Basel Counter-Production, Generali Foundation, Vienna (AT)

Donde el lenguaje es el material, Casa del Lago, Mexico-City (MEX)

Keine Zeit, 21er Haus, Vienna (AT)

Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York (US)

A Different Person, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)

FAX, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (UK)

The Baghdad Batteries, MoMA P1, Long Island City, Queens (US)

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 (US)

Josef Strau and Clegg&Guttman, Pro Choice, Vienna (AT) and Jerusalem (ISR)

Light from Light, MAAP, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane and Shanghai Library, Shanghai (CN)

The Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz (AT)

Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)

evas arche und der feminist (carte blanche), The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (US)

Scorpio ́s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (DE)

Looking Back, White Columns, New York (US)

Manifesta 7, Trentino (IT)

One Season in Hell, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin (DE)

Novel, Bibliothekswohnung Anna- Catharina Gebbers, Berlin (DE)

Door Slamming Festival, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin (DE)

Wonderwall—Constructing the Sublime, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (JPN)

Shandyismus, Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT)

...: ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA, Portikus, Frankfurt am

Main (DE)

Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (US) ; (other locations: Power Plant, Toronto (CA); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (US), 2007)

“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

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)

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

Strau, Josef: "Tears And New Tears", Greene Naftali, New York City, 2018 (exhibition brochure)

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

Strau, Josef: "Die Anrufung/The Invocation", in: "Amelie von Wulffen", Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, 2005, pp. 149-157 (exhibition catalogue)

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)

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)

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

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

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

Strau, Josef: "Berliner Geschichten, ein Gang durch das Jüdische Museum", in: Texte zur Kunst, December 1999, pp. 146-152

Strau, Josef: "Die wir soziale Intervention" (mit A. Siekmann), in: A.N.Y.P., Nr. 8, Berlin 1997

Strau, Josef: "Kontinuität am Beispiel des Stadtplaners Roland Rainer", in: demontage Nr. 11, Wien, 1996

"Kultur für Alle", in: Messe 2ok, Köln, 1996

"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

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

Strau, Josef: "Übersetzungsbüro", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, 1988 (exhibition brochure)

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

Strau, Josef: Tears and New Tears, Greene Naftali, New York

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

Strau, Josef: The New World 1, The Applications, Renaissance Society, Chicago

Strau, Josef: The New World 2, Travels in Turtle Island, Renaissance Society, Chicago

Knoll, Valérie; Loichinger, Hannes; Schäfer, Magnus (Hrsg.): Dealing With – Some Texts, Images and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co., Sternberg Press, 2012

Time Again exh. catalog. Long Island City: Sculpture Center: 10-13.

Strau, Josef. “Alongside the Abstract Plane, Dots and Bangs of Latent Evidence and True Relativity Exposed”, in Wolfgang Tillmans, Serpentine Gallery, London.

Strau, Josef. A dissidence coincidence, but W.H.C.T.L.J.S. Malmo: Malmo Konsthall.

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

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

“Zu Josef Kramhöllers Buch” in Josef Kramhöller, Kunstverein Düsseldorf.

Strau, Josef. Part II: Dear Little Tiger. Berlin: Galerie Buchholz.

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.

“Die wir soziale Intervention” (with A. Siekmann) A.N.Y.P., Berlin

“Kultur für Alle,” Messe 2ok, Cologne. Strau, Josef.

“Kontinuität am Beispiel des Stadtplaners Roland Rainer” demontage Nr. 11, Wien

Cepeda, Gaby: "Josef Strau - Haus of GAGA", in: Artforum, September 2023, p. 220

Tenaglia, Francesco: "Josef Strau “Spirits and Objects… and How Non-Productive Love Is Sometimes

Contained in Them…", in: Flash Art, November 23, 2020

Sammeck, Marina: "Around the Corner", in: rhineart.com, September, 2020

Tarasoff, Sabrina: "The Prototype", in: X-traonline.org, July 11, 2019

Haddad, Natalie: "The Divine Light of Josef Strau", in: hyperallergic.com, June 15, 2019

Zhou, Dennis: "Josef Strau", in: Artforum.com, June, 2019

Shalom, Enzo/Strau, Josef: "You Are Like Him: Josef Strau", in: Mousse Magazine, Summer 2019, pp. 46-47

Gritz, Anna/Strau, Josef: "Das Universum erzählt sich selbst/The Universe Narrates Itself", in: Spike Art Quaterly, Spring 2017, pp. 124-138

Jenner, Barbara: "Josef Strau", in: frieze d/e, September - November 2015, pp. 130-131

Banai, Noit: "Retrospective Radicalism", in: Texte zur Kunst, September 2015, pp. 192-195

Higashino, Yuki: "Critic’s Picks: Josef Strau", in: Artforum.com, 30 May, 2014

Schillinger, Jakob: "Josef Strau", in: Artforum, September 2014. p. 200

Schaar, Elisa: "Josef Strau", in: Artforum, May 2014, pp. 330-331

Lord, Jorda: "Critics’ Picks: Some Redemptions", in: Artforum.com, April 22, 2013

Scrimgeour, Alexander: "Counter-Production", in: Artforum, October 2012, p. 120

“Josef Strau", in: Time Out New York, June 28-July 4, 2012

Howe, David Everitt: "Josef Strau's Throwaway Economy", in: Afterall.com, May 17, 2012

Morgenthaler, Daniel: "Josef Strau", in: Kunstbulletin, October 2011, pp. 82-83

Nordby Wernø, Johanne: "Critics’ Picks: Nobody Can Tell The Why Of It", in: Artforum.com, August 2011

Roed, Kjetil: "Gåtefulle iscenesettelser", in: Aftenposten, May 2011

Griffin, Tim: "Today I Made Nothing", in: Artforum, December 2010, p. 283

Johnson, Paddy: "This Home Décor Show Needs More Damien Hirst!", in: The L Magazine, July 30, 2010

Gallois, Christophe: "The Space of Words", in: "The Space of Words", MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009, pp. 18-40 (exhibition catalogue)

Antoine, Jean-Philippe: "Open Up and Go Out to the Word Show", in: "The Space of Words", MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009, pp. 62-79 (exhibition catalogue)

Prince, Mark: "Josef Strau", in: Art in America, October 2009, p. 180

Krümmel, Clemens: "Inklusive Prägung der Initialen - Über Josef Strau in der Galerie Daniel Buchholz Berlin", in: Texte zur Kunst, September 2009, pp. 239-244

Lange, Christy, "The Space of Words", Frieze Issue 124, June/July/August 2009, p. 205

Holmquist, Karl: "Josef Strau at Malmö Konsthall", in: May 1, June 2009, pp. 115-123

Sharp, Chris: "Josef Strau: A Dissidence Coincidece But WHCTLJS", in: Art on Paper, January-February 2009

Burge, Russell: "Critics’ Picks: Josef Strau – Greene Naftali Gallery", in: Artforum.com, January 2009

Fabricius, Jacob: “The Dissident Bible of Ethics – Die Krankheit zum Tode – An Interview“, in; "Josef Strau: A Dissidence Coincidence but W.H.C.T.L.J.S“, Konsthall Malmö, Malmo, 2008, pp. 3-16 (exhibition catalogue)

Strau, Josef: "Bad Conscience", in: “Novel“, Bibliothekswohnung, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, organised by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams, Berlin, 2008 (publication)

Fiduccia, Joanna: "Josef Strau – Malmö Konsthall", in: Artforum, December 2008, p. 319

Gallois, Christopher: "Woorden en dingen / Words and Objects", in: Metropolis M, April-May 2008, pp. 28-37, 101-103

Schultz, Nora: "Top Ten: Josef Strau’s Posters", in: Artforum, April 2008, p. 194

van Kampen, Saskia: "Josef Strau: Voices and Substitutes", in: Flash Art, January-February, 2008, p. 141

Katzeff, Miriam; Lawson, Thomas; Morgan, Susan (eds.): "REALLIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994", Primary Information, New York 2007, n.p.

Filipovic, Elena: "Josef Strau", in: Frieze, September 2007, p. 194

Allen, Jennifer: "Door Slamming Festival", in: Artforum, Summer 2007, p. 512

Lack, Jessica: "Josef Strau", in: The Guardian Guide, May 5-11, 2007, p. 36

Sumpter, Helene: "My space #2: Vilma Gold", in: Time Out London, May 2-8, 2007

Coulson, Amanda: "ICAL KRBBT PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS, JON KLSY, JOSF STRA," in: Modern Painters, March 2007
Hermes, Manfred: "Next to Kin", in: Frieze, January-February 2007, p. 196

Cotter, Holland: "Art in Review; Looking Back", in: The New York Times, December 1, 2006, p. 32

Ammirati, Domenick: "Josef Strau", in: Modern Painters, September 2006

"Galleries–Chelsea: Josef Strau", in: The New Yorker, July 31, 2006

Kelsey, John: "Top Ten: Galerie Meerrettich", in: Artforum, December 2005, pp. 252-253

Cotter, Holland: "Pictures", in: Art in Review, February 2002

Schmerler, Sarah: "Snowflake Office", in: Time Out, January 2000

Frangenberg, Frank: "Josef Strau/Amelie von Wulffen: Snowflake Office, Teil 6", in: Artscribe, 1999

Hess, Barbara: "Variationen über »a«", in: Texte zur Kunst, December 1998, pp. 149-151, 1997

Poledna, Mathias: "Überschüsse, Mehrwert, Reste", in: Texte zur Kunst, June 1998, pp. 161-164

Munder, Heike: "Geknetete Allmachtsphantasien - Berlin im Jahr 2005. Über Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Josef Strau und Amelie Wulffen, „Die krumme Pranke“, Berlin 1997", in: Texte Zur Kunst, March 1998, pp. 130-133

Strau, Josef: "Die wir soziale Intervention" (mit A. Siekmann), in: A.N.Y.P., Nr. 8, Berlin 1997

Strau, Josef: "Kontinuität am Beispiel des Stadtplaners Roland Rainer", in: demontage Nr. 11, Wien, 1996

"Kultur für Alle", in: Messe 2ok, Köln, 1996

Decter, Joshua: "Parallax View: New York – Köln im P.S.1 Museum und im Goethe Haus", in: Texte Zur Kunst, June 1993, pp. 201-208

Blair, Dike: "Reviews", in: Flash Art, May-June 1993

Graw, Isabelle: "Kopfgeburten", in: Artis, May 1993, p. 32

Decter, Joshua: "Josef Strau and Stephan Dillemuth", in: Artforum, April 1993, p. 96

Cameron, Dan: "Friesenwall 120", in: Frieze, March 1993

"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

Razenbacher, Heimo: "Wider den Kult ums Original", in: Kronen Zeitung, May 24, 1992, p. 18

WT: "Am Rand des Kulturbetriebs: Schwarze Reifen, Graue Pather", in: Kleine Zeitung, May 23, 1992

Niegelhell, Franz: "Der Begriff „Galerie“ wird Angriffen ausgesetzt", in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May, 1992

Graw, Isabelle: "Man of Strau", in: Artscribe, November/December 1991

Dillemuth, Stephan: "Josef Strau", in: Texte zur Kunst, June 1991, p. 167

Schneider, Christiane M.: "Josef Strau", in: Noema Art Journal, #35, April 1991

BeH: "Zerschnittener Himmel", in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, #72/24, March 1991

Koether, Jutta: "Cosima von Bonin, Josef Strau, Ausstellung Münzstraße 10", in: Flash Art, Summer 1990, p.156

Bundeskunstsammlung – The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art (DE)

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)

mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (AT)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)

Sammlung Generali Foundation - Permanent loan to Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (AT)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)

ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (DE)