Gallery opening | Book launch:
• April 24, 2025
• Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Exhibition dates:
• April 25 - June 14, 2025
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.
Please join us in Berlin to celebrate the opening of the exhibition on April 24, 2025, from 18:00 to 21:00, at which both artists will be present. This occasion doubles as the Berlin launch of Tashi Brauen’s book Hold On — a catalog of his artistic work from the last 15 years.
