Frédéric Moser and Philippe Schwinger were born in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, in 1966 and 1961. They start their artistic collaboration in 1988, directing the independent theatre company "l'atelier ici et maintenant" in Lausanne until 1993. Between 1993 and 1998 they study in the class of Silvie and Chérif Defraouiat at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Geneva. Between 1998 and 2000 they win consecutely the Swiss Art Award. Residencies at Schloss Solitude Stuttgart in 2001 and at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Warsaw in 2003 follow. In 2002 they move to Berlin. They represent Switzerland at the Biennale de São Paulo 2004.