Pipilotti Rist

event site and dates

State Schusev Museum of Architecture

3 march 2007 — 1 april 2007

Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland) is a classic figure in the world of video art. Elizabeth Charlotte Rist borrowed her Pipilotti stage-name from Pippy Longstocking, combining the name of this character with her childhood nickname: Lotty. Rist’s works are a triumph of unrestrained fantasy and naïve childish optimism, much like the acts of her favorite fairytale personage. In her video works, Pipilotti is simultaneously a screenplay author, a director, a cameraman, and quite often the main character, since Rist believes that the sound component makes up half of her films and, indeed, she composes music for them herself. In Moscow, Pipilotti Rist is going to present a spatial video installation in the most intriguing and striking venue of Moscow, in the ruins of The A. V. Shchusev State Museum of Architecture.



A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is coming out on the 1st March.

E-mail: info@moscowbiennale.ru