.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly bring global modern-day as well as present-day fine art to the seaside urban area via a long-lasting assortment and also a developing plan of short-lived events. Her 1st museum job, engineer as well as professional India Mahdavi will thoughfully completely transform Trondheim’s Fine art Nouveau Post Office creating right into a 4,000 square meters brand new spots over 5 floors, in cooperation along with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open along with a team exhibit entitled ‘Postcards coming from the Future’, running February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will definitely feature its own compilation with irreversible shows as well as pair of large-scale annual events, featuring solo presentations as well as particular surveys. Visitor conservators will definitely work together with PoMo’s crew to bring fresh viewpoints, as well as an international lending plan will definitely sustain partnership. Celebrations as well as speaks will contextualize the exhibitions, and a learning system will interact kids, young people, as well as adults, along with partnerships planned along with research companies and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo collection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo by Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based designer and developer India Mahdavi is starting her 1st gallery task with the growth and also renovation procedure of PoMo. Charged along with developing a concept for the museum in collaboration with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually administered her signature approach to change the famous property, built in 1911, in to a modern room. PoMo will definitely feature three floors of show exhibits, to house both temporary exhibits and long-lasting compilation screens a liquid and also accepting entry area made to malfunction barriers between street, museum and artworks pliable cellar rooms committed to activities as well as education a public library as well as research study area in the eaves of the building and also a receiving room as well as office on the attic.
Drawing inspiration from Trondheim’s cityscape and past, as well as Norwegian folk art and also workmanship, and also the heritage of the aged post office building, India Mahdavi has actually designed a vivid and also joyous remodelling that celebrates in-between areas as much as exhibition spaces: strong, colorful instants will certainly accent PoMo coming from the basement to the fourth floor, commonly switched on through artworks coming from the irreversible assortment. ‘I desired this museum to feel welcoming and also broad, interacting both the neighborhood neighborhood as well as the global fine art crowd. It concerns reconnecting the nearby area along with the metropolitan area centre and also their personal background, while all at once giving a fresh adventure that accepts the world.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his thoughtful restoration and conservation ventures, Erik Langdalen’s layout for PoMo will definitely allow history to talk, whilst paying attention to the future.
Sustainability goes to the cutting edge of Langdalen’s method, concentrating on the recovery and also re-use of famous and also pre-existing buildings in order to reduce garden greenhouse fuel exhausts, generate historical anchoring and also boost social dedication. ‘When our team were actually participated in 2021, I immediately recognized what ability the old major general post office possessed as the setting for a brand-new eager craft museum like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinctive Fine art Nouveau construction in addition to new architecture as well as brand new technical services has actually been actually really expertly stimulating, and has actually resulted in a number of one-of-a-kind areas for potential fine art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will release along with Mails from the Future, a group event including approximately one hundred jobs by 24 worldwide performers from its brand-new permanent assortment as well as considerable worldwide loans.
Spanning all 3 exhibition floorings, the program pulls inspiration from the building’s past as Trondheim’s previous central Post Office, using the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like art work, mails function as vessels for public as well as private narration. The event will definitely include parts coming from the PoMo Assortment alongside notable works through musicians including Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Selection, launched through Monica and Ole Robert Reitan and featuring art work from REITAN’s assortment, pays attention to variety, creativity, and global depiction. To take care of gender inequality in museum assortments, at the very least 60% of its acquisitions are actually dedicated to women performers. The collection features jobs by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|picture u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|photo u00a9 Antoine Doyen job facts: title: PoMo architects/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.