.pomo museum to open in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will definitely deliver international contemporary and also contemporary craft to the seaside metropolitan area through a long-lasting collection and an evolving course of short-term shows. Her very first gallery venture, designer as well as designer India Mahdavi will thoughfully enhance Trondheim’s Fine art Nouveau General post office developing right into a 4,000 sqm brand new site over 5 floors, in collaboration along with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will definitely open with a team exhibit titled ‘Mails coming from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will definitely exhibit its own collection with long-lasting shows and pair of big yearly exhibitions, including solo discussions and also thematic studies. Guest curators will work together with PoMo’s group to deliver new standpoints, and also a global finance program will certainly nourish collaboration. Activities and also talks will definitely contextualize the events, and also an education and learning system are going to engage kids, young people, and grownups, with relationships considered with study organizations and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo selection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|picture through Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and developer India Mahdavi is plunging into her initial museum task with the advancement as well as makeover process of PoMo. Tasked with building an outlook for the gallery in relationship along with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her signature technique to enhance the famous structure, constructed in 1911, in to a present-day area. PoMo will certainly feature 3 storeys of event exhibits, to house both momentary exhibitions as well as permanent collection screens a liquid as well as accepting item space made to break obstacles between street, gallery and also artworks adaptable cellar areas devoted to events and also education and learning a collection and also research space in the eaves of the building and also a reception space and office space on the attic.
Pulling motivation from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as past, and also Norwegian folk art and workmanship, and the legacy of the old general post office structure, India Mahdavi has actually made a vivid and also joyous restoration that celebrates in-between areas as long as event areas: daring, vivid moments will stress PoMo from the basement to the 4th floor, commonly activated through arts pieces from the long-term collection. ‘I wished this gallery to experience inviting and inclusive, engaging both the neighborhood neighborhood and the international art crowd. It concerns reconnecting the neighborhood area with the area facility and also their personal past, while all at once using a new experience that invites the globe.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his well thought-out remediation and conservation projects, Erik Langdalen’s design for PoMo will allow history to talk, whilst paying attention to the future.
Sustainability is at the forefront of Langdalen’s strategy, paying attention to the rehabilitation and re-use of historic and pre-existing structures to decrease greenhouse gas discharges, develop historical anchoring and rise social dedication. ‘When our team were participated in 2021, I quickly recognized what possibility the aged main post office had as the setup for a brand-new determined craft museum like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinctive Fine art Nouveau construction together with new construction and also brand new technical remedies has actually been extremely skillfully stimulating, and also has actually resulted in a number of special rooms for potential craft adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely release along with Mails from the Future, a group exhibition including about one hundred jobs by 24 global artists coming from its own brand-new long-lasting selection and also significant worldwide car loans.
Covering all 3 exhibition floorings, the show pulls motivation from the building’s background as Trondheim’s previous central Post Office, making use of the postcard as a particular metaphor. Like artworks, postcards function as vessels for social and exclusive narration. The show is going to feature parts coming from the PoMo Selection together with remarkable jobs by musicians like Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Assortment, triggered by Monica and Ole Robert Reitan as well as including arts pieces coming from REITAN’s compilation, pays attention to diversity, originality, as well as worldwide depiction. To take care of gender discrimination in museum collections, at the very least 60% of its accomplishments are dedicated to girls artists. The assortment includes jobs through artists including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt.
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