Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti (Charlotte) Rist was born in Reinthal, Switzerland, in 1962. During the first half of the 1980s, she studied graphic design and photography in the Applied Arts Department of the Vienna Academy and video art in Basel. I decided on video because it allows me to do everything myself, from the camera work through the editing. I like that about it. Video has its characteristic features, its own inner nervousness ? and that is what I work with, says the artist. Her path to art led through pop culture and especially music. Rist transcends the aesthetic of music videos, seemingly using their forms to analyze issues related to the modern media, identity, the cultural dimension of gender, and sexuality. Her works are economical in terms of means of expression and contain little of the fascination that other artists exhibit for technology as a tool of global communication. In contrast to artists of previous generations, who used video almost exclusively to criticize the media world, in grand style Rist utilizes the full potential of the video image to reach viewers with her positive, life-affirming message. Pipilotti Rist is one of the world?s most important contemporary artists. She has presented her works at some of the most prestigious art shows (Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennale) and in top galleries (e.g. the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunsthalle Basel, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Kawasawa Museum in Japan). Her works are included in many leading collections. According to the prominent periodical Kunstkompass, Rist is currently ninth among the world?s ten most significant contemporary artists, selected by the editors from a pool of over eleven thousand. The exhibition at the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle consists of the most important films in the artist?s oeuvre (Sip My Ocean, Ever is Over All, Open My Glade, Selbstlos im Lavabad) as well as a brand new work, Stir Heart, Rinse Heart (2004), commissioned by SFMoMA and the Museé d?Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. A number of other works are also presented on a monitor located in the exhibition space. These include I?m Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), Sexy Sad I (1987), (Entlastungen) Pipilotti Fehler (1988), You Called Me Jacky (1990), Pickelporno (1992), Als der Bruder meiner Mutter geboren wurde, duftete es wie die Birnenbl üten vor dem braungebrannten Sims (1992), Blutclip (1994) and I?m a Victim of This Song (1995). A number of photographs from the artist?s Leib & Seele (Apricots) series (2002) supplement the exhibition. This is the first extensive exhibition of the works of Pipilotti Rist in Central and Eastern Europe. Two lectures on the artist?s work will accompany the exhibition. Ryszard W. Kluszczyƒski will deliver the first of these in May, and will be followed by Amelia Jones in June. Pressetext

Pipilotti Rist - video
Kurator: Milada ?lizinska