A star is born

Pipilotti Rist - I'm a victim of this song

Elisabeth Charlotte Rist was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland. Since her childhood she has been nicknamed Pipilotti. The name refers to the novel Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.

Rist studied at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, through 1986. She later studied video at the School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung) in Basel, Switzerland. In 1997 her work has been featured in the Venice Biennial for the first time, where she was prized with the Premio 2000.

1988 through 1994 she was member of the music band and performance group Les Reines Prochaines. In 2002 she was invited by Professor Paul McCarthy to teach at UCLA.

Pipilotti Rist currently lives with her common law partner Balz Roth, with whom she has a son, Himalaya.