Ronewa Art Projects in Berlin presents Road to Nowhere, a continuation of the collaborative project by Swiss artists Tashi Brauen and Chris Bünter. This Berlin exhibition features 14 new works on paper, blending their distinct practices into vibrant, playful compositions.
Their partnership, sparked in 2020 during a spontaneous studio visit, evolved through the Covid lockdowns. Brauen repurposed pages from Du magazine, using rudimentary printing techniques, while Bünter responded with collage interventions, cutting and rearranging elements. Their process, inspired by the Surrealist ‘Exquisite Corpse,’ involves Brauen’s monochromatic, Rorschach-like prints and Bünter’s rotated or exchanged cut-outs, embracing chance and deconstruction. This creates dynamic asymmetries and tensions between intuition and intellectualism.
Following exhibitions in Basel, Bern, and Zurich, where Zurich acquired nine works, this show marks their latest creative exchange. Brauen also launches his book Hold On, cataloging 15 years of his multidisciplinary work. The exhibition runs until June 14, 2025.
Road to Nowhere: Tashi Brauen & Chris Bünter / Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin. Berlin (Germany), May 4, 2025.
Press text (excerpt):
Ronewa Art Projects presents Road to Nowhere — a continuation of a joint project by Swiss artists Tashi Brauen and Chris Bünter. The duo’s ongoing collaboration merges their distinct practices into an artistic exchange that embraces an unpredictable process and produces vivid and playful works
on paper.
The Berlin exhibition presents 14 new works and marks the next step in Brauen and Bünter’s partnership. Their collaboration was born out of friendship, beginning spontaneously in 2020 during a visit from Bünter to Brauen’s Zurich studio. During the early lockdowns of the Covid pandemic, Brauen began repurposing old issues of the Swiss art and culture magazine Du, which has been in print since 1941. Brauen experimented with rudimentary printing techniques on the magazine’s highly curated pages, resulting in an ongoing body of work. Bünter, whose inquisitive practice often leads him into artistic collaborations, reacted to Brauen’s experiments by applying his own collage process to Brauen’s work.
The latest iteration of the collaboration follows a method that recalls the Surrealist game ‘Exquisite Corpse.’ Brauen begins by creating monochromatic prints — reminiscent of Rorschach test ink blots — upon pages of Du magazine. Bünter then responds with cut-out interventions, whereby the circular cut-outs are rotated, offset, or exchanged with cut-outs from other Du works. By allowing deconstruction, chance, and surrender to become part of the process, Brauen and Bünter’s approach generates surprising new compositions, asymmetries, and juxtapositions. The artists seek a balance between spontaneous and controlled action, and the works point to tensions between intuition and intellectualism.
The collaboration has resulted in three prior exhibitions in Basel, Bern, and Zurich, during which the city of Zurich purchased a group of nine works in 2022. Road to Nowhere is the next act in an ongoing story of creative exchange and partnership.
Artist biographies:
Tashi Brauen lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. His multidisciplinary practice revolves around an inquiry into how materials and surfaces react to different physical interventions. Brauen has exhibited internationally, including solo shows in Zurich, Basel, Berlin, Munich, and Bangkok, and participated in numerous group exhibitions across Europe and in the USA. His works are held in several Swiss public art collections, including Canton of Zurich, Canton of Berne, Wettingen Art Collection, as well as in private collections worldwide, such as The Luciano Benetton Art Collection in Treviso, Italy.
Chris Bünter also lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. He completed his studies in Art and Art History in Basel and at the Art Academy Warsaw. Bünter’s visual art practice comprises drawing, text art, collage, applied art, sculpture, installation, prints, and multiples. He also regularly contributes essays in contemporary art publications. His interest leads him to parallel practices of archiving and creating, and to regular collaborations with other artists.
