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M. S. Bastian and Isabelle L. are a Swiss artist couple who has made a name for themselves with their comic art, including paintings, sculptures, animated films and installations.
M.S. Bastian, whose real name is Marcel Sollberger, was born 1963 in Berne. He attended the School of Design in Berne and Biel and trained for a year in New York and Paris. Since 1993 M.S. Bastian worked as a freelance artist based in Biel. He has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes, including the Anderfuhren Scholarship Biel, the Louise Aeschlimann scholarship of the Canton of Berne, and he got twice the Swiss Federal Design Prize. In January 2019 M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L. were awarded by an independent jury as "Biel people of the year 2018".[1]
Isabelle L., whose real name is Isabelle Laubscher, was born in 1967 in Biel. She attended the graphic arts class at the School of Design in Biel and worked in various advertising agencies as a graphic artist. For further education, she spent some time in Los Angeles and Austin (USA). Since 2003 she works as a freelance artist with her husband M.S.Bastian.
Since 2005, M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L. had numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout Europe.