Biography
Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born in 1962 in Switzerland), a well-known
video artist, has been nicknamed Pipilotti after Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren. In 1997 her work has been featured in the Venice
Biennale for the first time, where she was prized with the Premio
2000. Her works last generally only a couple of minutes, and are
altered in their colors, speed, and sound. She works mainly with
video installations because there is room for painting, technology,
language, music, poetry, premonition of death, sex and friendliness.
Rist’s tapes have been shown at national and international festivals,
in many museums, and have been aired by television stations. Currently
she is working on her first full-length film, Pepperminta.
Video Installations
- Tyngdkraft,
var min vän (Gravity, Be My Friend, 2007)
- Homo
sapiens sapiens (2005)
- Herbstzeitlose
(2004)
- Himalaya's
Sister's Living Room (2000)
- Open
My Glade (2000)
- Remake
of the Weekend (1998)
- Ever
Is Over All (1997)
- Sip
My Ocean (1996)
- Yoghurt
on Skin, Velvet on TV (1995)
- Selbstlos
im Lavabad (Selfless in the Bath of Lava, 1994)
- Pickelporno
(1992)
- You
Called Me Jacky (1990)
- (Entlastungen)
Pipilottis Fehler ((Discharges) Pipilottis Mistakes,
1988)
- I’m
Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986)
Major awards
- 2004 01
Award und Honorary Professorship of the
Universität der Künste, Berlin
- 2001 Art
Prize of the City of Zurich
- 1999 Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis
- 1998 Nomination
for the Hugo Boss Prize
- 1997 Premio
2000 of the Biennale di Venezia
- 1995 Scholarship
of the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD)
- 1994 Video
Art Prize of the Swiss Bank Corporation
- 1994 Manor-Prize,
Sankt Gallen
- 1991 Swiss
Federal Arts Scholarship
- 1988 Prize
of the Feminale Cologne
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