Franz Xaver Baier

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Franz Xaver Baier

Franz Xaver Baier (born April 18, 1953 in Passau ) is a German phenomenologist , author and professor of architecture (Art + Design Research) at the University of Munich . Using scientific and artistic methods, Baier addresses the phenomenon “living space: in which we live”.

Life

Baier studied architecture , art history and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart and graduated as a graduate engineer for architecture and urban planning . He began early to deal with the philosophy of phenomenology, existentialism and philosophical-poetic forms of life, which he combined in life and work. Through several key experiences and stimulated by Rilke's Duineser Elegies , he discovered the existential “being in” as well as “the open” and the inner space as the primal constitution of human existence.

During a one-year break in the mid-1980s, which he spent in a remote country castle without technical media, Baier developed an expanded concept of living that opened up a cosmic constitution to him and conveyed a deep feeling of universal unity without deity.

In 1989 Baier received his doctorate with the interdisciplinary research work "Phenomenology of Living Space" at the University of Stuttgart. In the work he showed the spatial dimension of human existence, its permanent change and the spatial effect of everything that exists.

Baier has been Professor of Art + Design Research at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Munich since 1998 .

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Baier's work consists of artistic and architectural drafts, temporary installations and texts. His main concern is to show how human existence begins far outside the body and how people live in invisible and deeper internal spaces.

"Frischespur", Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 1992

In the early 1990s, Baier made a few artistic experiments with the museum and began to experiment with fresh apples. When he saw that some visitors in the museum saw these as fruit and ate them, while others saw the fruit as objects of art, he continued the topic. Among other things, the installations "Frischespur" in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and "Fresh food injection in a museum landscape" at Solitude Castle were created . Using around 1000 kg of apples each, the apple was conceptually placed in the center of the given situations.

On the basis of his lively understanding of space and time, Baier wrote a pamphlet on this subject and published the book "Space: to an architecture of lived space" in 1996.

“Reality does not exist in itself, but is made through life patterns, ways of life, perceptual habits and contexts of meaning. So there is no such thing as space and time. Our living spaces are created concretely. What science and philosophy always exclude is constitutive. Fashion, weather, food, architecture, cinema, life figures, fun, space and time emerge from this. Those who set up in a reality in itself or in "creation" only make themselves comfortable in rooms that others have opened up. He's just too lazy to build his own space. "

- Franz Xaver Baier : The room, introduction

The book sparked great interest in this topic in the art and architecture scene, which is still discussed today under the term spatial turn : “Baier's book 'Der Raum' can be read as one of the earliest references to the 'spatial turn' in Germany . ”In numerous other writings, Baier shows the consequences that arise from his spatial theory. Baier worked with numerous scientists, architects, artists, curators and institutions. These include u. a. Gernot Böhme , Jeppe Hein , Michael Sailstorfer , Walter Niedermayr , Hans Schabus, Six + Petritsch, Moritz Küng, Manfred Rothenberger, Max Hollein , Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt , Bund Deutscher Architekten , Kunstforum International, deSingle Antwerpen, Kunsthalle Wien , Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Vienna, Vienna Secession , New Society for Fine Arts Berlin, AA London , Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg. The thematic diversity concerns liveliness, perception, sensuality, building, living, beauty, thermal aesthetics, as well as a new understanding of religion and spirituality.

Franz Xaver Baier, New Year's Eve campaign, 2014

In order to point out invisible effects in the living space and to address an ecologically attuned expansion of consciousness, for example in relation to fine dust pollution from fireworks , Baier experiments with various means of expression and forms. In 2016, as part of the project "Rehabilitation of common greenery" around the Munich court garden , Baier took a kind of "weed walk" under the title "Urban Munich weeds as an indication of higher-order communities", in which he examined the connections between cracks, crevices, depths, Showed underground, spontaneity, wildness, culture, humus and humanity. In 2017 he finished the manuscript “Stadt Land Schloss”, in which he describes the spiritual path of a young man into universal connection with fictional means.

Publications

Baier is the author of numerous publications on the subject of “Existential Space”.

  • Why architecture needs the playful, in: Unrecognized spaces, Berlin 2015
  • The space: To an architecture of the lived space, 3rd edition, Cologne 2013
  • Coming Freedoms, in: Columnist, Kunsthaus Baselland 2014
  • Coming freedoms: New possibilities for art, museums and our existence based on art, in: 30 artists / 30 rooms (German / English), Nuremberg 2012
  • I love you, in: Lexicon of Bulky Words, Stuttgart 2010
  • The existential space, in: Six / Petritsch, Atlas (German / English), Vienna 2010
  • In the cockpit of perception / On the happiness of personal world spaces, in: Vernetzt, Berlin 2009
  • Mining the Multiply Folded Mountain, in: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, other than yourself / an investigation between inner and outer space, Cologne 2008
  • Lived Space, in: Michael Sailstorfer, Reaktor (German / English), Berlin / New York 2008
  • Living space as a material of art, in: Kunsträume Stadträume, Nuremberg 2008
  • The perceived space: Space perception is perception with the whole of existence, in: Catalog for the exhibition “White Torture” by Gregor Schneider, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf 2007, Cologne 2007
  • Forget NASA: About the adventure of personal world spaces, about the project "The Intricate Journey", New Society for Fine Arts , Berlin 2007
  • Intensity / New methods for composing materials, IN3 INTERNATIONAL SCENOGRAPHERS 'FESTIVAL BASEL, Basel 2006
  • Berg - Werk / folded several times, catalog contribution for: 51st Venice Biennale 2005, Das letzte Land (Hans Schabus), Austrian Pavilion, Vienna 2005
  • Entropic art, in: Entropy / about the disappearance of the work (catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the AR / GE KUNST Museum Bozen), Revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt 2004
  • But who will say what beauty is? in: The architect 1–2, Bonn 2003
  • Living in the Intermediate Space, in: The Larsen Effect / Process-like Resonances in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalog for the exhibitions of the same name at OK Linz and Casino Luxembourg 2001/2002
  • surroundings, in: Studio Gursky, exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Goethe-Institut New York , 2001
  • The house of sensuality, in: Der Architekt 7, Bonn 2001
  • Orbis Terrarum / "A pathetic planetary feeling arises", in: orbis terrarum - ways of world making, Museum Plantin Moretus , Antwerp 2000
  • The space: To an architecture of the lived space, 2nd edition, Cologne 2000
  • Dream houses of love - the architectures of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , in: Der Architekt, Cologne, July 1999
  • Erected space, in: Kunstforum International, Vol. 143, Cologne 1999
  • Space: Towards an Architecture of Living Space, Cologne 1996
  • Space lives - he who rocks wins, catalog contribution for the exhibition Video: Denk Raum Architektur, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich 1993/2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Faculty of Architecture, Prof. Dr. Franz-Xaver Baier. Munich University of Applied Sciences, accessed on August 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ "Forget NASA: About the adventure of personal worlds", on the project "The Intricate Journey", New Society for Fine Arts , Berlin 2007.
  3. ↑ Gernot Böhme: Art according to nature, lecture at the symposium Other Places. Public spaces and art. 1997, accessed August 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Realization of both projects with the collaboration of Dr. phil. Heidi Helmhold
  5. ↑ Baier, FX (2013, 3rd edition). Space: Prolegomena to an architecture of the lived space; [Pamphlet]. Cologne: King.
  6. ^ Franz Xaver Baier, Space, in: Architecture Space Theory, Tübingen / Berlin 2016.
  7. ↑ Civil Operations, (Cooperation Walter Niedermayr) Kunsthalle Wien 2003.
  8. ↑ Lively Co-Incidence, in: The Vital Coincidence, London 2003.
  9. ↑ The medium is architecture, in: DAM (German Architecture Museum), Architecture and Perception, Darmstadt 2003.
  10. ↑ Movement of the senses, in: The sense of the senses, Forum series / vol. 8, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn 1998.
  11. ^ Beauty, in: von az, 26 essays on basic concepts of architecture, Cologne 2004.
  12. ↑ sense of warmth and warmth organism / Draft thermal aesthetics, Fire (results of the International Congress of Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany), Bonn 2,001th
  13. ^ AK Grün - Symposion, 2016. Working group (AK) for the rehabilitation of common green, accessed on August 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Baier, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German phenomenologist, author and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau