[Exhibition period has been extended! ]Pipilotti Rist: Your Eye Is My Island

Exhibition

[Exhibition period has been extended! ]
Pipilotti Rist: Your Eye Is My Island

2021.04.06 tue. - 06.20 sun.

This retrospective focuses on Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962), an internationally active contemporary artist based in Switzerland. Rist’s video installations, consisting of comforting, sensorially stimulating music, and humorous snatches of images depicting a realm of vivid color, have charmed viewers of all ages throughout the world.
The exhibition is made of some 40 works, dealing with themes such as the body, women, nature, and ecology. Functioning as a complete overview of Rist’s approximately 30-year career, the retrospective encompasses everything from the artist’s early short videos focusing on the female body and identity; a major work that was presented at the Venice Biennale; a recent large-scale video installation, which gently extols a symbiosis between nature and humans using state-of-the-art video techniques; a new work that incorporates pieces from the museum collection; and an outdoor work fashioned out of recycled materials. With playful and immersive video experiences, which enable the viewer to relax on a bed and sit around a dining table, the exhibition restructures the relationship between the viewer and the museum in the era of the coronavirus, while also gradually unraveling pressing themes in contemporary society by means of the viewer’s body.

List of Works Pipilotti Rist: Your Eye Is My Island (PDF)

Audio guide Works in the Exhibition

Exhibition dates ~~2021.04.06 tue. - 06.13 sun.~~
2021.04.06 tue. - 06.20 sun.

Hours 9:30AM–5:00PM
*Fridays and Saturdays: 9:30AM–8:00PM
*Admission until 30 min. before closing

Closed Mondays
*Exception: May 3

Admission Adults: 1,200 yen (1,000 yen)
University students: 500 yen (400 yen)
* Figures in parentheses are groups of 20 or more and Night discount on Fridays/Saturdays after 5 P.M.
* High school students and younger are free (with valid ID).
* Visitors with disability and one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge. (Please present certificate at the admission.)
* Collection gallery exhibition is available with this ticket.
* Advance tickets are available until April 5.

(Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler [(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes] (videostill) 1988
video (11'18'')
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Selbstlos im Lavabad [Selfless in The Bath of Lava]
1994
Single-channel audio-video installation(6'20'')
Installation view at the Hayward Gallery, Photo: Linda Nylind
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Ever Is Over All (videostill)
1997
Two-channel audio-video installation (4'9'', 8'25'')
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Photo by Alexander Trohler
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Open My Glade (Flatten) (videostill)
2000
Single-channel video installation (9'52'')
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Enlight My Space
2008
Single-channel video installation, silent. Integrated LED projector and diverse objects, books and miniatures on walnut wooden shelf (7'27'')
Installation view, Kunsthaus Zürich Photo: Lena Huber
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Hiplights (or Enlighted Hips)
2011
Installation with used and washed underpants, steel cables and custom-made LED lamps
Installation view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Photo: Kim Hansen
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Mercy Garden Retour Retour (from the Mercy Work Family) (videostill)
2014
Multi-channel audio-video installation (15'14'')
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Die Geduld [The Patience]
2016
Single-channel video installation, silent. Projection on erratic boulder, sofa and wall (12'46'')
Installation view at Kunsthaus Zürich, Photo: Lena Huber
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
4th Floor To Mildness
2016
Three-channel audio-video installation. single and double beds with pillows (13'23'', 8'11'', 8'11'')
Installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Photo: Anna Kucera
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine
Multicoloured Ghost (videostill)
2020
Single-channel video installation, silent. mini-projection onto sanded label of a bottle, player also in cigar box, many bottles
© Pipilotti Rist, All images courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine