Pipilotti Rist

January 5, 2024
Multimedia Artist

Quick Facts

Pipilotti Rist
Full Name Pipilotti Rist
Occupation Multimedia Artist
Date Of Birth Jun 21, 1962(1962-06-21)
Age 62
Birthplace Grabs
Country Switzerland
Birth City Canton of St. Gallen
Horoscope Gemini

Pipilotti Rist Biography

Name Pipilotti Rist
Birthday Jun 21
Birth Year 1962
Place Of Birth Grabs
Home Town Canton of St. Gallen
Birth Country Switzerland
Birth Sign Gemini
Spouse Balz Roth
Children(s) Himalaya Roth

Pipilotti Rist is one of the most popular and richest Multimedia Artist who was born on June 21, 1962 in Grabs, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Swiss multimedia artist, best known for her projection imagery. From 2005 to 2009, she produced her first feature film “Pepperminta”.

In 2002, She was invited by Paul McCarthy to teach at UCLA in 2002. invited her to teach at UCLA.

Rist’s nine video segments titled Open My Glade were played once every hour on a screen at Times Square in New York City, a project of the Messages to the Public program, which was founded in 1980.

In I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986) Rist dances before a camera in a black dress with uncovered breasts. The images are often monochromatic and fuzzy. Rists repeatedly sings “I’m not the girl who misses much,” a reference to the first line of the song “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” by the Beatles. As the video approaches its end, the image becomes increasingly blue and fuzzy and the sound stops.

Balz Roth was her husband and they have a son, Himalaya.

Pipilotti Rist Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Multimedia Artist
House Living in own house.

Pipilotti Rist is one of the richest Multimedia Artist from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pipilotti Rist 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She received formal education in video production and applied arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Switzerland and the School of Design in Basel.

Pipilotti was her childhood nickname, derived from Pippi Longstocking’s storybook character.

Pipilotti (Elisabeth) Rist (born 1962 Grabs, Switzerland) is a visual artist. She is best known for creating experimential video art and installation art that often portrays self-portraits and singing. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body. Her artwork is often categorized as feminist art. In a 2011 Guardian exhibition review article, Rist describes her feminism: “Politically,” she says, “I am a feminist, but personally, I am not. For me, the image of a woman in my art does not stand just for women: she stands for all humans. I hope a young guy can take just as much from my art as any woman.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Pipilotti Rist Dating?

According to our records, Pipilotti Rist married to Balz Roth. As of December 1, 2023, Pipilotti Rist’s is not dating anyone.

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Ravenal, John B. Outer & inner space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane & Louise Wilson, and the history of video art. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2002. ISBN 0917046617

Facts & Trivia

Pipilotti Ranked on the list of most popular Multimedia Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Pipilotti Rist celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.

Her first feature film, Pepperminta, had its world premiere at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009. She summarized the plot as “a young woman and her friends on a quest to find the right color combinations and with these colors they can free other people from fear and make life better.”

Where is Pipilotti Rist?

Rist lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland with her partner Balz Roth, an entrepreneur. She and Roth have a son, Himalaya.

What kind of artist is Pipilotti Rist?

Video art

How long has Pipilotti Rist been an artist?

After working as a graphic designer in her native Switzerland, Rist gained a following in the mid-1980s as a member of the experimental post-punk pop group Les Reines Prochaines, for which she made some of her earliest video works.

Who inspired Pipilotti Rist?

Even before her time in the band, she was making Super 8 movies and found inspiration in the work of Yoko Ono and of the video pioneer Nam June Paik.

What is Pipilotti Rist known for?

Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body. Her artwork is often categorized as feminist art.

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