Pascale Mira Tschäni & Michael Husmann Tschäni are based in Switzerland and both studied at the College of Art in Lucerne. They received further education at the National Institute of Design, India and a residency in Berlin. Since 2003 they have developed a unique collaborative style encompassing the worlds of painting, comics, illustration, installation and recently also performance and have exhibited from Mumbai to Melbourne. In fact they work backwards, painting in layers on the reverse of acrylic glass, using different materials, such as enamel, oil colour, watercolour, crayon, glitter and spray. It was like two completely different, somewhat incompatible picture languages had collided when they started working together. But somehow they managed to create pictures, stories and installations together, without having to change their own individual styles.

Their current collaborations consists of both exquisite illustration works, in which they make use of their paintings and “left overs” of performances, like costumes and fabric sculptures. Both are displayed together to create an environment that is at the same time powerfully dominated by illustration and theatrical presence. (Picture above: Poultry Poetry, 2011 | 152 x 152 cm | mixed media behind acrylic glass | 5700€)

Biographies

PASCALE MIRA TSCHÄNI

*1975 born in Basel, CH / currently living and working in Beinwil am See, Switzerland

/ 1996 - 1998 studied at the Schule für Gestaltung, Basel CH

MICHAEL HUSMANN TSCHÄNI

*1974 born in Lucerne, CH / currently living and working in Beinwil am See, CH

/ 1991-1999 studied at the Hochschule Design & Kunst, Lucerne CH

/ 1993 studied at the Bath College of Higher Education, Bath GB

/ 1998-1999 studied at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad IND

Award

2010 Swatch Young Illustrators Award - Winner Category Illustration

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2010 Chatterjee & Lal (with Aditya Pande), Mumbai IND

2009 Galerie 16b, Zurich CH

2009 Chäslager, Stans CH

2008 Kunsthaus, Zofingen CH

2008 Galerie Das Ding, Lucerne CH

2007 Stainless Gallery (with Aditya Pande), New Delhi IND

2007 Gallery Until Never, Melbourne AU

2006 Kunstpanorama (Comicfestival Fumetto), Lucerne CH

2005 Rote Fabrik, Zurich CH

2004 Galerie A16, Zurich CH

2003 Galerie Das Ding, Lucerne CH

2002 Raum 62, Rapperswil CH

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2010 SYIA-Night & „The Opium Den“, Direktorenhaus, Berlin D

2009 Sound/Visions, Bakersfield CA, US

2009 Galerie Guillaume Daeppen, Born to be Punk, Basel CH

2008 Helsinki Biennale 08, Helsinki FIN

2008 Kunstsalon, Galerie Guillaume Daeppen, Berlin D

2007 Exotic Meats, Workshop Showroom, Sydney AU

2007 Salon de Tea, Melbourne AU

2005 The world is not enough, Leipzig D

2004 Galerie Melnikow, Heidelberg D

2004 IG-Halle, Rapperswil CH

2002 Büro Discount, Zurich CH

Collections

2009 City Sempach, CH

2008 Kunstverein, Zofingen CH

2008 Private Collection Kiran Rao & Aamir Khan (Bollywoodstar), Mumbai IND

2003 Bosshard Collection, Rapperswil CH

2000 City Zurich, CH

Projects

2010 Rittenhouse x Husmann/Tschaeni, Capsule Collection (fashion), Sydney AU

2007 Tram St. Kilda Festival, Melbourne AU

2006 Low Motion Disco, Eskimo Recordings, (cover-artwork)

2005 Waiting room, Children’s hospital, Lucerne CH (with Samuel Perret)

Performances

2010  „oh, it’s an eerie frost“

2009  „even till the end“

For more Information go to www.husmanntschaeni.com