.pomo museum to open in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that are going to deliver worldwide modern-day as well as modern craft to the seaside metropolitan area with a permanent collection and also a progressing system of temporary shows. Her initial gallery task, architect as well as designer India Mahdavi will thoughfully enhance Trondheim’s Art Nouveau Postal service building right into a 4,000 sqm brand new spots over 5 floors, in cooperation with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will open with a team exhibition entitled ‘Postcards from the Future’, working February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will display its own selection with long-term display screens and also two large-scale annual exhibits, including solo discussions as well as thematic studies. Guest curators are going to collaborate with PoMo’s team to take fresh standpoints, and also a worldwide finance plan are going to sustain collaboration. Events and speaks will certainly contextualize the exhibitions, and an education program will engage little ones, young people, as well as grownups, with collaborations considered along with analysis institutions and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic through Terje Trobe a collaboration between india mahdvai and erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and also designer India Mahdavi is actually embarking on her first gallery job along with the growth and improvement procedure of PoMo. Charged along with creating a vision for the gallery in alliance along with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually administered her trademark strategy to change the historical structure, integrated in 1911, right into a contemporary area. PoMo is going to feature 3 storeys of exhibition showrooms, to house both temporary shows and also long-lasting compilation shows a liquid and also welcoming entry area created to break obstacles between road, gallery as well as arts pieces flexible cellar rooms devoted to occasions and also learning a library and research study area in the eaves of the structure and a reception room as well as workplace on the attic.
Pulling motivation from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as past, and also Norwegian folk craft as well as craftsmanship, as well as the tradition of the old general post office property, India Mahdavi has designed a lively and also joyous remodelling that celebrates in-between regions as much as event spaces: bold, vibrant instants will punctuate PoMo from the cellar to the fourth flooring, frequently switched on through art work from the long-lasting compilation. ‘I desired this museum to feel inviting and also comprehensive, involving both the local area area and the international art crowd. It has to do with reconnecting the nearby area along with the city center and their personal background, while all at once providing a fresh knowledge that invites the world.’ sample u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his well thought-out renovation and also preservation tasks, Erik Langdalen’s layout for PoMo will definitely make it possible for background to talk, whilst paying attention to the future.
Durability is at the cutting edge of Langdalen’s technique, focusing on the treatment and re-use of historic as well as pre-existing buildings in order to lower greenhouse gas exhausts, create historic anchoring and also rise social dedication. ‘When our company were actually participated in 2021, I quickly understood what potential the old major general post office had as the setting for a brand-new eager art gallery like PoMo. The job of interweaving the unique Craft Nouveau design together with brand-new architecture as well as brand-new technical services has been very skillfully stimulating, and has actually led to a lot of distinct areas for future craft knowledge.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will certainly launch with Mails from the Future, a team show featuring around 100 works through 24 global artists coming from its brand new permanent selection as well as substantial global fundings.
Spanning all three show floorings, the show draws motivation coming from the property’s past history as Trondheim’s past main Post Office, utilizing the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like artworks, mails work as ships for public and also private storytelling. The exhibit will consist of pieces from the PoMo Collection along with significant works through artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and also Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Compilation, triggered through Monica and Ole Robert Reitan and including arts pieces coming from REITAN’s compilation, concentrates on range, creativity, as well as global depiction. To take care of sex disparity in gallery compilations, at least 60% of its own achievements are actually devoted to ladies artists. The assortment consists of jobs by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|photo u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|graphic u00a9 Antoine Doyen job information: title: PoMo engineers/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen place: Trondheim, Norway.