With their CAT (Contemporary Art Tower) project, the CAT designers Peter Noever, Sepp Müller, and Michael Embacher have developed an initiative articulating a programmatic architectural strategy that meets the complex requirements of today's artistic productions. CAT proposes to adapt a 1942-3 antiaircraft tower in Vienna's Arenbergpark - a memorial to never forget the Nazi regime - into an international center for contemporary art, where projects committed to genuinely modern issues can be realized. Jenny Holzer and James Turrell have developed interventions for the site. Centering around an  architectural model (1:50 scale; concrete, acrylic, light), design sketches, and realization plans, the project has already been presented in New York, Los Angeles, and Moscow, as well as at the Vitra Design Museum Berlin from 16 January to 24 February 2002.

Special thanks to Wolfgang Beer, Günter Bischof, Georg Geyer, Boris Groys, Cornelius Grupp, Erich Hohenberger, Jenny Holzer, Ronald S. Lauder, Franz Loicht, Ariel Muzicant, ORF Kultur, Andreas Treichl, Wolfgang Rosam, James Turrell, Paul Virilio

Exhibition Peter Noever

MAK curator Bettina M. Busse

CAT International Advisory Board: Catherine David, Boris Groys, Cornelius Grupp, Andreas Treichl, Paul Virilio

Catalogue "heaven's gift. A New Programmatic Strategy for the Presentation of Contemporary Art". Edited by Peter Noever, MAK, English and German editions, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, 2001, EUR 14