Pipilotti Rist View Profile
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Rheintal, Switzerland) is pioneer of lush, immersive, and emotional video art. Rist combined her childhood nickname, Lotti, with the first name of the Swedish children’s story character Pippi Longstocking to create her artistic moniker in 1982. Inspired by her experiences as a band member and a set designer, her work merges video, installation, sound, architecture, color, and bodily experience. Rist’s topics include the female body, feeling as a form of knowledge, and the relationships between the natural world and technology.
Rist’s solo exhibitions include The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2021–22); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2019); New Museum, New York City (2016–17); The Museum of Modern Art, New York City (20080; Centre Georges Pompidou (2007). Notable group exhibitions include Born Digital: Videokunst im neuen Millennium, Kunsthaus Zurich (2024), Eccentric: Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2024); Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017–18); and the Venice Biennale (2011, 2005, 1999), representing Switzerland in 1997. Open My Glade (2000), commissioned by Public Art fund, was her first large-scale project. Rist’s work is in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Rist lives and works in Zurich.
(as of 2022)
