.pomo gallery to open up in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly deliver worldwide modern and also present-day art to the seaside metropolitan area through an irreversible compilation as well as a developing program of short-lived exhibitions. Her 1st museum task, designer as well as designer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully improve Trondheim’s Art Nouveau Post Office developing into a 4,000 sqm brand-new spots over 5 floors, in cooperation along with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will definitely open up with a team exhibit titled ‘Postcards coming from the Future’, running February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will certainly feature its own collection with permanent shows and 2 large-scale annual events, consisting of solo presentations and also thematic studies. Visitor managers will definitely team up with PoMo’s crew to bring fresh viewpoints, as well as a worldwide loan plan will definitely bring up collaboration. Celebrations as well as talks are going to contextualize the shows, and also an education and learning course are going to interact youngsters, young people, and also adults, along with alliances organized along with study companies and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo selection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo by Terje Trobe a partnership between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based architect and developer India Mahdavi is embarking on her first museum venture with the development and improvement method of PoMo. Entrusted along with developing a perspective for the museum in collaboration with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has administered her signature technique to enhance the famous structure, built in 1911, into a contemporary room. PoMo will consist of three storeys of exhibition galleries, to house both brief exhibits and also irreversible compilation displays a liquid and also accepting item room created to break barricades in between road, gallery as well as artworks pliable basement spaces dedicated to occasions and education and learning a public library and research room in the eaves of the structure and a receiving space and office on the top floor.
Attracting ideas from Trondheim’s cityscape and also past history, and also Norwegian folk fine art as well as craftsmanship, as well as the legacy of the outdated general post office structure, India Mahdavi has created a vibrant and also cheerful redesign that celebrates in-between areas as high as exhibition areas: strong, vibrant moments will accent PoMo coming from the cellar to the fourth flooring, often turned on through art work from the permanent compilation. ‘I wished this gallery to experience inviting and also inclusive, engaging both the nearby community and the worldwide art crowd. It concerns reconnecting the local neighborhood along with the city centre and their personal past, while at the same time providing a fresh expertise that accepts the world.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his thoughtful restoration and conservation projects, Erik Langdalen’s design for PoMo will definitely permit background to communicate, whilst focusing on the future.
Sustainability goes to the forefront of Langdalen’s approach, focusing on the rehab as well as re-use of famous and also pre-existing structures so as to lessen green house gas discharges, create historical anchoring and also increase social devotion. ‘When our experts were engaged in 2021, I quickly understood what ability the aged major general post office possessed as the environment for a brand-new determined craft gallery like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinguishing Craft Nouveau construction along with new design and brand-new technical solutions has actually been incredibly professionally interesting, and also has actually resulted in an amount of unique spaces for potential craft experiences.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely release along with Postcards coming from the Future, a team event featuring approximately one hundred jobs through 24 global artists from its brand new long-lasting selection as well as notable global fundings.
Covering all three exhibit floorings, the program attracts ideas from the property’s past as Trondheim’s previous main Post Office, using the mail as a particular analogy. Like artworks, postcards act as ships for social and also personal storytelling. The exhibit will include parts coming from the PoMo Selection alongside noteworthy jobs by performers including Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and also Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Selection, launched by Monica and Ole Robert Reitan and also featuring artworks coming from REITAN’s collection, pays attention to diversity, creativity, as well as international representation. To resolve sex inequality in museum compilations, at the very least 60% of its own acquisitions are dedicated to girls performers. The compilation features jobs through musicians like Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt.
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