Pipilotti Rist
26 Oct 2016 - 15 Jan 2017
Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000 (still)
Single-channel video installation, silent, color; 9:07 min
Courtesy the artist, Hauser &
Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Single-channel video installation, silent, color; 9:07 min
Courtesy the artist, Hauser &
Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Worry Will Vanish Horizon, 2014 (still)
Two-channel video and sound installation, color, with carpet and white duvets; 10:25 min
Dimensions variable
Sound by Anders Guggisberg
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Two-channel video and sound installation, color, with carpet and white duvets; 10:25 min
Dimensions variable
Sound by Anders Guggisberg
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Gnade Donau Gnade (Mercy Danube Mercy), 2013/15
Installation view: “Komm Schatz, wir stellen die Medien um & fangen
nochmals von vorne an,” Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, 2015. Courtesy the
artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. Photo: Lisa Rats
Installation view: “Komm Schatz, wir stellen die Medien um & fangen
nochmals von vorne an,” Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, 2015. Courtesy the
artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. Photo: Lisa Rats
Pixelwald (Pixel Forest), 2016
Installation view: “Pipilotti Rist: Dein Speichel ist mein Taucheranzug im Ozean des Schmerzes” [Your Saliva is my Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain], Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, 2016. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. Photo: Lena Huber
Installation view: “Pipilotti Rist: Dein Speichel ist mein Taucheranzug im Ozean des Schmerzes” [Your Saliva is my Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain], Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, 2016. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine. Photo: Lena Huber
I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much, 1986 (still)
Single-channel video, sound, color; 7:42 min
Sound by Rist after “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” (1968) by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, videoart.ch, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Single-channel video, sound, color; 7:42 min
Sound by Rist after “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” (1968) by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, videoart.ch, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler ([Absolutions] Pipilotti’s Mistakes), 1988 (still)
Single-channel video, sound, color; 11:17 min
Sound by Hans Feigenwinter and Les Reines Prochaines
Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, videoart.ch, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Single-channel video, sound, color; 11:17 min
Sound by Hans Feigenwinter and Les Reines Prochaines
Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, videoart.ch, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Ever is Over All, 1997 (still)
Two-channel video and sound installation, color, with carpet; 4:07 min
Dimensions variable
Sound by Anders Guggisberg and Rist
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Two-channel video and sound installation, color, with carpet; 4:07 min
Dimensions variable
Sound by Anders Guggisberg and Rist
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Mercy Garden, 2014 (still)
Two-channel video and sound installation, color, with carpet and sheepskin; 10:30 min
Dimensions variable
Sound by Heinz Rohrer
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Two-channel video and sound installation, color, with carpet and sheepskin; 10:30 min
Dimensions variable
Sound by Heinz Rohrer
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Pickelporno (Pimple Porno), 1992 (still)
Single-channel video, sound, color; 12:14 min
Sound by Peter Bräker and Les Reines Prochaines
Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, videoart.ch, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
Single-channel video, sound, color; 12:14 min
Sound by Peter Bräker and Les Reines Prochaines
Courtesy the artist, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, videoart.ch, Hauser & Wirth, and Luhring Augustine
PIPILOTTI RIST
Pixel Forest
26 October 2016 – 15 January 2017
“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,” will mark the first New York survey of the work of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist.
Over the past thirty years, Rist (b. 1962) has achieved international renown as a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations. Her mesmerizing works envelop viewers in sensual, vibrantly colored kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a “glorification of the wonder of evolution,” Rist maintains a deep sense of curiosity that pervades her explorations of physical and psychological experiences. Her works bring viewers into unexpected, all-consuming encounters with the textures, forms, and functions of the living universe around us.
Occupying the three main floors of the Museum, “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” will be the most comprehensive presentation of Rist’s work in New York to date. It will include work spanning the artist’s entire career, from her early single-channel videos from the 1980s that explore the representation of the female body in popular culture to her recent expansive video installations that transform architectural spaces into massive dreamlike environments enhanced by hypnotic musical scores. Featuring a new installation created specifically for this presentation, this exhibition will also reveal connections between the development of Rist’s art and the evolution of contemporary technologies. Moving from the television monitor to the cinema screen, and from the intimacy of the smartphone to the communal consumption of images and soundscapes, this survey will chart the ways in which Rist’s work has fused the biological with the electronic in the ecstasy of communication.
Pipilotti Rist was born in Grabs in the Rhine Valley, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Zurich. She studied graphic design, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and audiovisual communications and video at the Basel School of Design. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented internationally at venues including Kunsthaus Zürich (2016); Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2015); Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2013); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2012); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2011); the Hayward Gallery, London (2011); the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2011); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2009); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007); and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2006); among many others. Rist was awarded the Harper’s Bazaar Art China Prize (2013), the Zurich Festival Prize (2013), and the Joan Miró Prize (2009).
“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Margot Norton, Associate Curator, and Helga Christoffersen, Assistant Curator. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue copublished by the New Museum and Phaidon Press Limited.
Pixel Forest
26 October 2016 – 15 January 2017
“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,” will mark the first New York survey of the work of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist.
Over the past thirty years, Rist (b. 1962) has achieved international renown as a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations. Her mesmerizing works envelop viewers in sensual, vibrantly colored kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a “glorification of the wonder of evolution,” Rist maintains a deep sense of curiosity that pervades her explorations of physical and psychological experiences. Her works bring viewers into unexpected, all-consuming encounters with the textures, forms, and functions of the living universe around us.
Occupying the three main floors of the Museum, “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” will be the most comprehensive presentation of Rist’s work in New York to date. It will include work spanning the artist’s entire career, from her early single-channel videos from the 1980s that explore the representation of the female body in popular culture to her recent expansive video installations that transform architectural spaces into massive dreamlike environments enhanced by hypnotic musical scores. Featuring a new installation created specifically for this presentation, this exhibition will also reveal connections between the development of Rist’s art and the evolution of contemporary technologies. Moving from the television monitor to the cinema screen, and from the intimacy of the smartphone to the communal consumption of images and soundscapes, this survey will chart the ways in which Rist’s work has fused the biological with the electronic in the ecstasy of communication.
Pipilotti Rist was born in Grabs in the Rhine Valley, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Zurich. She studied graphic design, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and audiovisual communications and video at the Basel School of Design. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented internationally at venues including Kunsthaus Zürich (2016); Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2015); Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2013); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2012); Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2011); the Hayward Gallery, London (2011); the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2011); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2009); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007); and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2006); among many others. Rist was awarded the Harper’s Bazaar Art China Prize (2013), the Zurich Festival Prize (2013), and the Joan Miró Prize (2009).
“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Margot Norton, Associate Curator, and Helga Christoffersen, Assistant Curator. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue copublished by the New Museum and Phaidon Press Limited.