.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly take worldwide modern-day as well as contemporary art to the seaside urban area by means of a long-lasting selection and an evolving program of momentary events. Her first gallery venture, designer as well as professional India Mahdavi will thoughfully improve Trondheim’s Fine art Nouveau Postal service constructing in to a 4,000 sqm brand-new site over five floors, in cooperation with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will open with a group exhibition labelled ‘Mails coming from the Future’, functioning February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum is going to feature its selection via long-term display screens as well as pair of large yearly shows, featuring solo presentations as well as thematic polls. Guest curators will definitely team up along with PoMo’s group to take fresh standpoints, as well as a worldwide lending course are going to sustain collaboration. Events and speaks will definitely contextualize the exhibitions, as well as a learning program will certainly interact youngsters, youth, and adults, along with relationships intended along with research study organizations and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic through Terje Trobe a collaboration in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and professional India Mahdavi is embarking on her very first museum venture with the advancement as well as remodelling method of PoMo. Tasked along with cultivating a goal for the gallery in partnership with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually applied her trademark method to enhance the famous property, integrated in 1911, right into a modern area. PoMo is going to feature 3 storeys of show exhibits, to house both momentary exhibits as well as long-term selection shows a liquid and also welcoming item room created to break down barriers in between road, gallery and art work flexible cellar spaces dedicated to occasions and education and learning a public library and also research study room in the eaves of the property as well as a receiving space and also workplace on the attic.
Pulling ideas from Trondheim’s cityscape and background, along with Norwegian folk craft and also craftsmanship, and the legacy of the old postal service property, India Mahdavi has actually developed a dynamic and also joyful renovation that commemorates in-between regions as high as show rooms: bold, colorful minutes are going to accent PoMo from the basement to the fourth flooring, typically activated by art work from the long-term selection. ‘I desired this gallery to feel inviting and inclusive, interacting both the local area and the international art crowd. It has to do with reconnecting the nearby neighborhood with the city facility and their own record, while at the same time supplying a new knowledge that invites the planet.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his helpful remediation as well as preservation jobs, Erik Langdalen’s design for PoMo will certainly enable record to talk, whilst paying attention to the future.
Sustainability goes to the leading edge of Langdalen’s strategy, concentrating on the treatment and also re-use of historical as well as pre-existing structures in order to reduce green house fuel discharges, make historical anchoring and increase social dedication. ‘When our experts were actually participated in 2021, I instantly recognized what capacity the aged principal postal service possessed as the setup for a new determined craft gallery like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinct Art Nouveau design along with new design and new technological remedies has been very skillfully stimulating, and has actually resulted in a variety of unique rooms for potential craft knowledge.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely release with Mails coming from the Future, a team exhibit featuring approximately one hundred jobs through 24 worldwide performers from its own brand new long-lasting compilation as well as substantial international loans.
Reaching all three show floorings, the program draws creativity coming from the structure’s past history as Trondheim’s previous main Post Office, utilizing the postcard as a thematic analogy. Like arts pieces, mails serve as vessels for social and also personal narration. The event will feature parts from the PoMo Collection along with notable works by artists like Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and also Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Assortment, triggered through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan and also including art work from REITAN’s selection, focuses on variety, creativity, and international portrayal. To take care of sex discrimination in museum collections, a minimum of 60% of its own achievements are actually committed to women artists. The compilation features works through musicians such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|graphic u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|photo u00a9 Antoine Doyen project information: title: PoMo engineers/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen area: Trondheim, Norway.