In a solo exhibition centered on newly commissioned video installation works, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist takes on the spatial dynamics of UCCA’s Great Hall. These creations further expand Rist's pioneering and incisive visual lexicon, seamlessly integrating her enduring ecofeminist perspectives with Taoist philosophical reflections on nature and the interconnectedness of all life. The exhibition invites viewers to shift fluidly between intimate microcosms and sweeping macro-perspectives, exploring cycles of ongoing transformation that govern bodily mechanisms, food consumption, digestion, and cultivation within today’s complex ecosystems. A dynamic journey into Rist’s “Total Art,” this exhibition encompasses video, installation, and sculpture in a profound sensory experience.

Rist will present a large-scale, site-specific commission for the Great Hall fully engaging UCCA’s striking public and exhibition spaces with a humorous and immersive experience welcoming audiences of all ages and backgrounds into the vibrant world of Rist’s art. In addition, a concise selection of her most emblematic works will flank the commission. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Curator Yan Fang. 

About the Artist

Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives and works in Zurich) studied commercial art, illustration, and photography at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1982 to 1986. She furthered her studies with audio visual communications (video) at the School of Design in Basel. Since the mid-1980s, Rist has been exhibiting her work worldwide and became a central figure within the international art scene. 

Rist’s recent solo exhibitions include “Electric Idyll” (Fire Station, Doha, 2024); “Behind Your Eyelid” (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2022); “Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor” (The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California, 2021-2022); “Your Eye Is My Island” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 2021); “Open My Glade” (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2019); “Pixel Forest” (LUMA Arles, Arles, France, 2018); “Sip my Ocean” (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2017-2018); “Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish” (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2017); “Pixel Forest” (New Museum, New York, 2016-2017); and “Your Saliva is my Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain” (Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, 2016).