Photo: Pipilotti Rist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Pipilotti Rist is the rare artist who makes the moving image feel like a warm bath rather than a lecture. Working out of small-town Grabs in Switzerland and trained in Vienna, she built an international reputation on video and installation work that is surreal, intimate and unapologetically bodily. Pieces like Ever Is Over All and Sip My Ocean fuse sweetness with menace in a way I find genuinely disarming. What draws me to her is that she trusts sensation over explanation, immersing you in color and sound until meaning sneaks up on you. The Joan Miro and Meret Oppenheim prizes feel well earned for an artist this fearless.
Overview
Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born 21 June 1962 in Grabs) is a Swiss visual artist who has attained international recognition, best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate and abstract, often depicting the human body.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Pipilotti Rist
- Name (Japanese)
- ピピロッティ・リスト
- Reading
- ぴぴろってぃ・りすと
- Born
- June 21, 1962 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Tiger
- Origin
- Grabs, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- photographer / film director / screenwriter / cinematographer / video artist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Applied Arts Vienna
Awards & achievements
- 2009 Joan Miró Prize
- Prix Méret-Oppenheim
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much | — | |
| Notable work | Pepperminta | — | |
| Notable work | Monochrome Rose | — | |
| Notable work | Pickelporno | — | |
| Notable work | Ever Is Over All | — | |
| Notable work | Sip My Ocean | — |
6. Links
Photographer — see all → · Film director — see all → · More people from Switzerland →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.