1. Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist was born on 21 June 1962 and is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art.
11 Facts About Pipilotti Rist
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Pipilotti Rist's work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body.
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Pipilotti Rist was born Elisabeth Charlotte Rist in Grabs, Switzerland, in the Rhine Valley.
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Pipilotti Rist's father was a doctor and her mother a teacher.
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Pipilotti Rist started going by "Pipilotti", a combination of her childhood nickname "Lotti" and her childhood hero, Astrid Lindgren's character Pippi Longstocking, in 1982.
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From 1982 to 1986 Pipilotti Rist studied commercial art, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Vienna.
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Pipilotti Rist later studied video at the Basel School of Design, Switzerland.
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From summer 2012 through to summer 2013, Pipilotti Rist spent a sabbatical in Somerset.
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Pipilotti Rist's work is regarded as feminist by some art critics.
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Pipilotti Rist's works are held by many important art collections worldwide.
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In 1998, Rist was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize administered by the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation.