Pipilotti Rist was born on June 21, 1962 in Rheintal, Switzerland.

She likes red beets a lot. Her focus is video/audio installations because there is room in them for everything (painting, technology, language, music, movement, lousy, flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonition of death, sex and friendliness) - like in a compact handbag. Her opinon is: Arts task is to contribute to evolution, to encourage the mind, to guarantee a detached view of social changes, to conjure up positive energies, to create sensuousness, to reconcile reason and instinct, to research possibilities and to destroy clichés and prejudices.

Rist's works have been exhibited widely at museums and festivals throughout Europe, Japan and the US, including the biennials in Sao Paulo, Venice, Istanbul, the Caribbean and Santa Fe. In 2000 the Public Art fund NY commission Open My Glade, was shown on the screen in Times Square. Pipilotti Rist's multimedia video works such as, I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986)‚ Yoghurt on Skin, Velvet on TV (1995)‚ Sip My Ocean (1996), and Remake of the Weekend (1998), blur the boundaries between visual art and popular culture and explore the unfamiliar in the everyday. Her lush, seductive images recruit the idiom of commercial advertising and music videos to create a highly individual artistic language informed by her past in a music band and as a set designer.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (1998), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1999), Tramway, Glasgow (2001); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2001); KIASMA museum, Helsinki (2003); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2004); MUSAC Museo de arte contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon (2005); 51st Venice Biennial, San Stae Church (2005); AROS New Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (2005), Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2006), Magasin 3, Stockholm (2007), Hara Museum, Tokyo (2007), FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool (2008), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008).

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