.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will take international contemporary as well as modern fine art to the seaside metropolitan area by means of a permanent selection and an evolving plan of short-term exhibits. Her very first gallery job, designer as well as designer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully transform Trondheim’s Fine art Nouveau Postal service creating right into a 4,000 sqm brand-new site over five floorings, in cooperation with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo is going to open along with a team show labelled ‘Mails from the Future’, functioning February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will definitely showcase its compilation with permanent shows as well as two large annual exhibitions, featuring solo discussions as well as particular surveys. Guest managers will certainly collaborate along with PoMo’s group to take fresh standpoints, and also an international loaning system will foster cooperation. Events and also talks will certainly contextualize the shows, and also an education plan will definitely engage kids, young people, as well as adults, along with partnerships planned with study organizations and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo compilation, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo through Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based designer and developer India Mahdavi is plunging into her 1st museum task along with the progression and also redesign process of PoMo. Tasked with establishing an outlook for the gallery in relationship along with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually applied her trademark method to improve the historical structure, built in 1911, right into a contemporary room. PoMo will definitely feature three storeys of event showrooms, to house both short-term exhibits as well as long-lasting selection display screens a fluid as well as accepting item room made to break barricades in between street, gallery and arts pieces versatile cellar spaces dedicated to activities as well as education a collection and also investigation room in the eaves of the property as well as a receiving area as well as office on the top floor.
Pulling ideas from Trondheim’s cityscape and past history, in addition to Norwegian folk fine art as well as craftsmanship, as well as the legacy of the outdated post office property, India Mahdavi has actually developed a vivid as well as joyful makeover that celebrates in-between areas as long as show spaces: bold, vivid seconds will accent PoMo from the basement to the 4th flooring, typically triggered by arts pieces coming from the long-term assortment. ‘I preferred this museum to feel inviting and also comprehensive, interacting both the local area area as well as the global art group. It’s about reconnecting the regional area along with the area centre as well as their very own past, while all at once delivering a new adventure that accepts the world.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his helpful repair and preservation projects, Erik Langdalen’s concept for PoMo will enable background to speak, whilst concentrating on the future.
Durability is at the forefront of Langdalen’s method, paying attention to the rehab as well as re-use of famous and pre-existing buildings in order to decrease green house gasoline exhausts, generate historical anchoring and boost social dedication. ‘When our team were taken part in 2021, I promptly comprehended what possibility the aged principal post office had as the setting for a new determined fine art museum like PoMo. The job of weaving the unique Craft Nouveau architecture along with brand new design and new technical services has actually been really properly stimulating, as well as has actually caused an amount of one-of-a-kind spaces for potential craft expertises.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will certainly introduce along with Mails coming from the Future, a group exhibition featuring about 100 works by 24 international performers from its brand-new permanent compilation and also substantial international car loans.
Spanning all three exhibit floors, the show draws ideas coming from the structure’s record as Trondheim’s previous main Post Office, making use of the postcard as a thematic metaphor. Like arts pieces, postcards serve as ships for public as well as private storytelling. The exhibit will feature parts from the PoMo Assortment together with remarkable jobs by artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Assortment, launched by Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan and also featuring artworks coming from REITAN’s collection, concentrates on diversity, creativity, and also global representation. To take care of gender disparity in museum collections, a minimum of 60% of its own achievements are committed to girls musicians. The selection consists of jobs by musicians including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|image u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|picture u00a9 Antoine Doyen venture info: name: PoMo engineers/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.