The
Renaissance
Society

Austrian artist Josef Strau’s work mines the interplay between language, form, and environment, resulting in concise and highly symbolic sculptural installations. These are intimately related to, and often feature, his characteristic stream-of-consciousness writing, which merges the diaristic, the theoretical, and the fictional.

Central to Strau’s multifaceted practice is an interrogation of authorship, and his presentation of new work at the Renaissance Society considers the literary motif of rewriting existing texts and the possibilities of ongoing, collective composition. This is Strau’s first solo exhibition in an American museum, and it is accompanied by two related publications.