On the occasion of the VIENNA ART WEEK 2010 STANDARD Art Talk at the MAK Art into the Bunker? Monday, November 15, 2010, 7.30 p.m. MAK Depot of Contemporary Art Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark Dannebergplatz/Barmherzigengasse, Vienna 3
	Panel discussion Peter Noever – Director, MAK Vienna Gennaro Postiglione – Professor at the Politecnico di Milano James Turrell – Artist, Flagstaff/New York Valentin E. Wille – Architect and Author, Vienna Erwin Wurm – Artist, Vienna Moderatorin: Alexandra Föderl-Schmid – editor-in-chief DER STANDARD Video documentation of the panel discussion:
	(+) To enlarge, please click on the image At the beginning of the VIENNA ART WEEK, a panel discussion explores the tensionloaded field between art and the economy and debates about Vienna’s position on the international art map, about the need for more and new exhibition spaces, and about the value of art collecting in times of crisis. Contemporary art needs new forms of presentation. This is something that Gennaro Postiglione, Professor at the Politecnico di Milano,, James Turrell, influential American artist, Valentin E. Wille, Architect and Author, Vienna, Erwin Wurm, internationally known Austrian artist, and Peter Noever, director of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, basically agree upon. With Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, editor-in-chief of the local daily “DER STANDARD,” they discuss the complex requirements of contemporary art production and reception and the conscious involvement of artists in this strategy.
	Bunker Berlin Christian Boros, founder and principal of an advertising agency and important art collector, had to struggle his way around red-tape traps until the “Bunker Berlin” project in downtown Berlin could be opened in 2008 as a private museum and contemporary art collection. Works by noted international artists from the Boros Collection are presented in temporary exhibitions sometimes conceived on site by the artists themselves. CAT – Contemporary Art Tower Developed by Peter Noever, Sepp Müller, and Michael Embacher, the CAT – Contemporary Art Tower project formulates a radically new programmatic strategy, the intention being to transform the flak tower in Arenbergpark into a lively international center of contemporary art. On a total usable floor space of 12,900 square meters, a 21st century collection will be compiled over time, which effectively helps to avert the threat of a collecting gap that is imminent in the area of contemporary art. Selected artists will be invited to work on site as artists in residence, relating to the historical context of the building. The urban “foreign body” of the flak tower might thus be given a new purpose and integrated in the city life without losing its memorial function.		James Turrell and CAT James Turrell has worked with light as an art medium since the 1960s; he sees in the viewing and perception of light a material quality and a possibility for the creation of reality. For the CAT project, he developed the artistic intervention of the “Skylight” which will permanently transform the architectural structure of the building. On one of the flak tower platforms, he plans to set up a “Skyspace,” in which visitors can perceive the space between heaven and earth as a materialized field of color, giving them a sense of having overcome the otherwise unfathomable distance. New spaces of thought also unfold in Turrell’s Skyspace named “The Other Horizon” (1998), which was set up in the garden of the MAK branch museum Geymüllerschlössel in 2004, and in “MAKlite,” a permanent light installation on the street facade of the MAK main building on Stubenring (also since 2004). Erwin Wurm and CAT Erwin Wurm is one of the most important contemporary artists, who has had a longstanding relationship with the MAK. It dates back to 1996 when his installation “12 Mülleimer & 1 Video” was shown at the MAK Main Columned Hall. Since 2003, the MAK has owned Erwin Wurm’s sculpture “Fat Car.” Most recently, the donation of the mobile sculpture “Geste Mobil” added another important object to the MAK Contemporary Art Collection.
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