Zizi Rincolisky (1956) is an artist and psychoanalyst who works in both domains. Focusing primarily on film and video installations, she has participated in numerous film festivals in the United States, where she won multiple awards, especially for her film The Other Woman - Zizi’s Dream . Due to her husband’s work at Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Cologne (1975–1980, the gallerist who was the founder of the Dia Art Foundation in New York), she was exposed to Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and many other artists of this era. Throughout the 1980s, she actively participated in the art scene of Düsseldorf and Cologne. In 1989, she left to work at the University Hospital of Melbourne on the academic unit as a clinical psychologist. There, she began her psychoanalytic training according to the theory and practice of Jacques Lacan, which she later completed in London while working at Guys and Lewisham Mental Health Trust.
After the birth of three children, she decided to leave London and move to West Cork, Ireland, with her family. She began renovating a derelict tower house called Rincolisky Castle. During that time, she actively produced art, holding her first exhibition in Cork, followed by one in 2000 at Galerie Brigitte Schenk in Cologne. In 2001, she moved again, this time to Brussels, where she worked as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in independent practice with children and adults, as well as an artist in her own studio.
In 2012, she founded a gallery in Brussels with a specific concept, and her first publication, titled Contemporary Art, the Thing and the Other (academia.edu), documents her numerous collaborations with artists. Her most recent projects include Demonic Poets, Into the Abyss, Kunst ist ein Rausch, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and others, which can be found on her website.
Zizi Rincolisky also holds two art diplomas - by Académie des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles in Fine Arts and by Académie Beeldende en Audiovisuele Kunsten Anderlecht in Video Art.