As part of En Plein Air 2025, the performance YOUR SOLID LIFE – Lebenslauf 1 by artist Béla Juttner will take place in public space on Sunday, July 13, 2025. A walk through the city is planned, which will end on the banks of the Isar at the Reichenbachbrücke in a participatory performance. The central element of the walk is the wearing of a baby jacket enlarged 100 times – the core of his conceptual life’s work Your Solid Life, a long-term project by the artist, which will be documented, exhibited and activated in performances/lives throughout his life.

Twenty-eight layers of the jacket, corresponding to the years of the artist’s life, are colored on site with beet and dried between the trees. The audience is actively involved and invited to engage with themes such as the body, identity and gender. The performance will be documented on film and presented to the public at Kunstraum München at the end of August.

Story

Artist and Fashion Designer Béla Juttner came across a photo in his family archives which documented his very first outing as baby. It was actually clothing by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. The magenta-colored velvet jacket and cap had been bought by his mother at a flea market. This very first outfit is now the starting point for his conceptual work of art. The original pattern of the YSL baby jacket is enlarged 100 times without changing the original shape. Like tree rings around the original, the outlines correspond to the age of a person.

Béla Juttner

In Béla Juttner’s artistic work, genre boundaries hardly play a role; the transitions between installation, performance, fashion, design, painting and film are fluid. His performances focus on body transformations, molting and the dissolution of gender identities. In his art studies, Béla Juttner combined his experiences of working on and with his own body in ballet and during his fashion design studies with social issues.

His actions are set up and performed with the involvement of viewers and the audience. An essential part of this is the creation of costumes and their design. The individual elements, which appear as components of a physical language, result in a kind of overall aesthetic figure that points to the ambiguity of human relationships and questions social norms. His Performances are documented in videos, which then become autonomous artistic works.

Curated by Emily Barsi and Patricia Drück