Behind Your Eyelid—Pipilotti Rist

Overview

Artist: Pipilotti Rist

Curator: Tobias Berger

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Due to the enthusiastic response and attendance, visitors are encouraged to book tickets in advance on Klook in order to secure priority entry.

A major new exhibition by the internationally renowned Swiss media artist Pipilotti Rist lands in Hong Kong in Summer 2022, taking over all Tai Kwun Contemporary galleries and beyond. Rist’s signature moving image installations—highly immersive, deeply sensual, and remarkably insightful—wrap visitors with a virtual hug of sounds, colours, and moving images. Visitors can walk and sprawl within her mesmerising installations, which prompt meditative introspection along with joy and exhilaration, opening up explorations of the body and the image, of exterior environments and interior mindscapes. This high-profile exhibition offers major works from Pipilotti Rist’s oeuvre along with newly produced site-specific works for Tai Kwun,in the galleries, on the Prison Yard and elsewhere in Tai Kwun.

Awards
Behind Your Eyelid – Pipilotti Rist – Best Exhibition Event – Bronze Award
The Marketing Events Award 2023 – Hong Kong

Learn more:

Behind Your Eyelid—Pipilotti Rist exhibition

Behind Your Eyelid—Pipilotti Rist Online Guided Tour

Behind Your Eyelid—Pipilotti Rist Family Day at Tai Kwun Contemporary

Ticketing

Tickets to the exhibition are available on Klook . HK$88 for general tickets and HK$65 for concession tickets (Full-time students with ID, people with disabilities, and senior citizens over the age of 60).

Tickets are available at the JC Contemporary reception: HK$95 (general) and HK$75 (concession).

Family tickets are available: HK$280 for 2 adult tickets and 2 concession tickets.

Tickets are also available at tenant stores: Aaharn 、 Bonart 、PAZTA、Yuen's Tailor

Education and public programmes

Education and public programmes

Date	Time	Programmes
Saturdays and Sundays from 20.08.2022- 27.11.2022	Cantonese 3pm \| English 4pm	Weekend Guided Tour Entry to the venue with the exhibition ticket on the day of the event Weekend guided tours may be cancelled depending on changes in the government’s epidemic prevention measures. Please stay tuned to the Tai Kwun website or email learnart@taikwun.hk
03.08.2022	7:30pm–9:00pm	Lighting Workshop
04.08.2022	7:30pm–9:00pm	Tai Kwun Conversations: Behind Your Eyelid—A Dialogue with Pipilotti Rist and Tobias Berger
05.08.2022	7:30pm–9:00pm	Pixel Mapping Workshop
06.08.2022	10am–12:30pm	Teacher’s Morning
06.08.2022 21.08.2022 04.09.2022 18.09.2022	1:30pm–4:30pm 10:00am-1:00pm 10:00am-1:00pm 1:30pm-4:30pm	Teacher’s Workshop
11.08.2022	7:30pm–9:30pm	Pipilotti Rist’s Choice: Daisies Screening
02.09.2022	7:30pm–9:30pm	Pipilotti Rist’s Choice: Pepperminta Screening
26.08.2022 09.09.2022 23.09.2022 07.10.2022 21.10,2022 04.11.2022	7:30pm–9:30pm	Pipilotti Rist After Hours
Sundays biweekly from 21.08.2022-27.11.2022	2 Sessions per day	Family Day at Tai Kwun Contemporary

Artist Bio

Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist, a pioneer of spatial video art, was born in 1962 in Grabs, Switzerland, located in the Rhine Valley on the Austrian border, and has been a central figure within the international art scene since the mid-1980s. From her earliest video works to more recent large-scale moving-image installations, Pipilotti Rist’s highly immersive, deeply sensual, and remarkably insightful works wrap visitors in a virtual hug of sounds, colours, and moving images. Her mesmerising installations prompt meditative introspection along with joy and exhilaration, opening up explorations of the body and the image, of exterior environments and interior mindscapes.

Since 1984, Rist has displayed her work in an extensive array of solo and group exhibitions. Major solo exhibitions include Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021 – 2022); Your Eye Is My Island at MoMAK, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and ART TOWER MITO (2021); Åbn min Lysning. Open my Glade at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2019); Sip My Ocean at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2017 – 2018); Pixel Forest at New Museum, New York (2016 – 2017); and Your Saliva is My Diving Suit of the Ocean of Pain at Kunsthaus Zürich (2016). Rist has also participated in numerous biennales, including the Venice Biennale (1997, 1999, 2011), Biennale of Sydney (2000, 2008, 2014), and the Istanbul Biennale (1997, 2000, 2007).

Merchandise

Merchandise offers to TK Fans

Get ready to receive a special 20% discount on all merchandise (except eyeball capsules) from Tuesday through Friday, and for weekend visitors 10% off*.

Inside the galleries, art lovers may expect to open their hearts and minds, but they can also leave with a particular souvenir that will help them remember the magical experience.

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Eyeball Capsule (Pin) | HKD80 (Random draw of styles)

Eyeball Capsule (Glass cleaning cloth) | HKD80 (Random draw of styles)

Eyeball Capsule (Badge) | HKD80 (Random draw of styles)

Eyeball Capsule (Sticky tape) | HKD80 (Random draw of styles)

Eyeball Capsule | HKD80 (Random draw of styles)

Innocent Box | HKD350 (Three styles)

Deluxe Eye Box | HKD1,200 (Three styles)

Mask | HKD120 (Two styles)

AR Artist Poster (Ever is Over All) | HKD290

AR Artist Poster (Neighbours Without Fences) | HKD290

Porcelain Plate | HKD480/plate, HKD1,250/set of 3

Limited-edition Print:

Left: May the Dark Caress You

Right: Soft Spear

Limited-edition Print: Rather

AR Filter Poster

Take the artwork video home with our AR filter posters!

Well known for her moving image installations, the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has long explored the possibilities of video to offer a remarkable vision of seeing differently. With this AR filter app and AR filter posters available for purchase at the Tai Kwun Contemporary exhibition Behind Your Eyelid – Pipilotti Rist, excerpts of two of her works – Ever is Over All (1997) and Neighbors without Fences (2021) will instantly pop up on the screen once you hold your phone camera in front of the posters.

Ever is Over All (video still), 1997

Neighbor without Fences (video still), 2021

Download：App Store/ Google Play

For support, please email art@taikwunarts.hk

Weekend Guided Tour

Tai Kwun Contemporary Weekend Guided Tour

Saturdays and Sundays from 20 August to 27 November

Cantonese 3pm | English 4pm

Entry to the venue with the exhibition ticket on the day of the event

Weekend guided tours may be cancelled depending on changes in the government’s epidemic prevention measures. Please stay tuned to the Tai Kwun website or email learnart@taikwun.hk

Download File(s)

Exhibition Guidebook

Behind Your Eyelid—Pipilotti Rist