Image: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha will show 'Pipilotti Rist: I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much' from May 16 to September 6, 2026, presenting one of the Swiss artist’s early videos in Hawks Pavilion. The exhibition, listed in the museum’s calendar and exhibition pages, focuses on Rist’s 1986 color video of the same title, which runs 7 minutes and 47 seconds and is shown in the Media Gallery.
According to the museum, the work belongs to Rist’s 1980s practice, when she was using music, technology and performance to blur the line between the fantastical and the everyday. The video subverts the music-video format and turns to questions of the female voice and body in popular culture. In the work, Rist chants the title phrase, adapted from The Beatles’ 1968 song “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” while making increasingly frantic movements. The museum says she intermittently slowed down and sped up the footage, and that the editing effects distort the video into an almost painterly procession of images.
The exhibition page describes Rist’s lush videos as works that use repeated sonic and visual gestures to push pop music’s conventions and depictions of women to absurd lengths. It also notes that the artist’s DIY aesthetic was central to the early piece. The museum’s language places the video within Rist’s broader interest in the relationship between performance and image-making, with distortion and editing used not as effects for their own sake but as the structure of the work.
Pipilotti Rist, born in 1962, is identified on the museum page as a Swiss artist. The exhibition is one of several temporary shows listed by Joslyn in its August newsletter, alongside 'Sadie Barnette' and 'City in Print'. The newsletter also notes that selected exhibitions may require tickets, though it does not give a ticket fee for Rist’s show. The museum’s own page lists the exhibition as free.
Joslyn’s exhibition text situates the video in the 1980s and points to its place in the history of experimental video art, especially the way it handles voice, repetition and image. The title itself, drawn from a Beatles lyric, becomes part of the work’s strategy of remixing familiar pop culture material into something more unsettling and abstract. The museum’s description emphasizes how the footage’s slowed and accelerated rhythms transform the artist’s body and chant into a shifting visual field rather than a straightforward performance record.
The exhibition is scheduled for Hawks Pavilion, Media Gallery H6, with dates running from May 16 through September 6, 2026. The museum lists the work on view as 'I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much', a color video from 1986 that is presented as part of 'Pipilotti Rist: I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much' at Joslyn Art Museum.
