.pomo gallery to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand-new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will carry worldwide modern-day and contemporary fine art to the seaside metropolitan area by means of a long-lasting assortment and also a progressing course of short-term events. Her 1st gallery job, architect and also designer India Mahdavi will thoughfully transform Trondheim’s Fine art Nouveau General post office constructing into a 4,000 sqm new landmark over five floors, in partnership along with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo is going to open up with a group show labelled ‘Mails from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will exhibit its selection through irreversible display screens and also pair of big yearly exhibits, consisting of solo presentations as well as thematic surveys. Visitor managers will collaborate along with PoMo’s team to take fresh perspectives, and an international lending plan will bring up partnership. Celebrations and talks are going to contextualize the exhibits, and also an education course will certainly engage little ones, young people, and grownups, along with partnerships planned with research institutions and also universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo collection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|picture through Terje Trobe a collaboration in between india mahdvai and erik Langdalen Paris-based architect as well as professional India Mahdavi is plunging into her initial museum venture along with the advancement as well as remodelling method of PoMo. Charged with developing a vision for the gallery in alliance along with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually administered her signature technique to change the historic structure, installed 1911, in to a modern room. PoMo will definitely feature 3 floors of exhibition galleries, to house both short-lived exhibits and irreversible selection screens a liquid as well as accepting entry space created to malfunction barricades in between road, gallery and art work versatile cellar spaces dedicated to activities and also learning a collection as well as study room in the eaves of the structure as well as a receiving area and also office space on the top floor.
Drawing ideas from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as past history, as well as Norwegian folk craft and also workmanship, as well as the tradition of the aged postal service structure, India Mahdavi has made a dynamic and cheerful remodelling that celebrates in-between places as high as exhibit rooms: daring, vivid seconds will certainly accent PoMo coming from the cellar to the fourth flooring, typically triggered by arts pieces from the long-lasting selection. ‘I desired this gallery to experience inviting as well as comprehensive, engaging both the local area neighborhood and the international art group. It’s about reconnecting the regional neighborhood with the urban area center and their own background, while all at once using a fresh adventure that invites the planet.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his considerate repair and preservation jobs, Erik Langdalen’s layout for PoMo are going to allow past to speak, whilst concentrating on the future.
Sustainability goes to the leading edge of Langdalen’s method, focusing on the rehab and also re-use of famous and also pre-existing structures in order to minimize garden greenhouse fuel exhausts, develop historical anchoring as well as boost social devotion. ‘When our company were taken part in 2021, I instantly comprehended what possibility the old primary post office had as the environment for a new ambitious fine art museum like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinguishing Fine art Nouveau architecture along with brand new design as well as brand new technical options has been incredibly expertly appealing, and has resulted in an amount of distinct rooms for potential art knowledge.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will launch with Postcards coming from the Future, a group event including roughly 100 works through 24 global artists coming from its own new permanent compilation and also significant global loans.
Extending all three exhibit floorings, the show draws motivation from the property’s history as Trondheim’s former central Post Office, making use of the mail as a particular metaphor. Like arts pieces, mails function as vessels for public as well as private narration. The exhibition will include pieces coming from the PoMo Collection alongside distinctive jobs through performers 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, started through Monica and also Ole Robert Reitan and also featuring art work coming from REITAN’s compilation, concentrates on diversity, originality, and also global representation. To address gender disparity in museum collections, at least 60% of its own achievements are devoted to females musicians. The assortment features works through musicians like Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|image u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|image u00a9 Antoine Doyen task information: title: PoMo engineers/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen place: Trondheim, Norway.