.pomo museum to open in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that are going to bring international modern-day as well as modern craft to the seaside city through a long-term compilation and a growing course of short-lived events. Her 1st gallery job, engineer and also designer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully transform Trondheim’s Fine art Nouveau General post office constructing into a 4,000 sqm brand new site over 5 floors, in cooperation with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open with a group exhibition entitled ‘Mails from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will definitely exhibit its collection via permanent screens as well as pair of big annual exhibits, including solo presentations and also particular studies. Guest conservators will certainly work together along with PoMo’s crew to carry new point of views, and a global financing program will sustain collaboration. Events and also talks will certainly contextualize the exhibitions, and also an education course will definitely interact children, young people, and also grownups, along with partnerships prepared along with research study institutions and also universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo selection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo through Terje Trobe a collaboration in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based architect and also designer India Mahdavi is starting her initial gallery project with the development and redesign procedure of PoMo. Entrusted with creating a goal for the museum in relationship with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has administered her signature technique to enhance the historic structure, installed 1911, right into a contemporary room. PoMo will definitely include 3 storeys of exhibit showrooms, to house both brief shows and also long-term assortment shows a fluid and inviting item room designed to malfunction barricades between street, museum as well as arts pieces pliable basement spaces devoted to events and education and learning a collection and investigation space in the eaves of the structure and also a receiving space and workplace on the top floor.
Attracting motivation coming from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as history, as well as Norwegian folk craft as well as workmanship, as well as the heritage of the aged general post office structure, India Mahdavi has actually developed a vibrant and also cheerful remodelling that commemorates in-between regions as high as exhibition spaces: bold, colorful moments will definitely accent PoMo coming from the basement to the fourth floor, commonly switched on by artworks from the long-lasting compilation. ‘I desired this museum to really feel inviting as well as broad, engaging both the regional community as well as the worldwide fine art group. It’s about reconnecting the regional community with the city facility as well as their very own background, while at the same time providing a fresh knowledge that invites the globe.’ sample u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his helpful repair and preservation ventures, Erik Langdalen’s style for PoMo will permit background to communicate, whilst concentrating on the future.
Sustainability is at the forefront of Langdalen’s approach, concentrating on the rehabilitation as well as re-use of historic as well as pre-existing properties if you want to reduce greenhouse fuel exhausts, make historical anchoring and also boost social commitment. ‘When our experts were taken part in 2021, I right away knew what potential the aged main general post office possessed as the setting for a brand-new eager craft gallery like PoMo. The job of interweaving the distinguishing Fine art Nouveau architecture in addition to new architecture and also brand-new technical answers has actually been actually extremely properly interesting, as well as has actually caused an amount of unique areas for future craft experiences.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will launch with Postcards from the Future, a group show including around one hundred jobs through 24 international artists from its brand new irreversible assortment and notable global loans.
Reaching all three event floorings, the series pulls motivation from the structure’s background as Trondheim’s past central General post office, utilizing the postcard as a thematic allegory. Like art work, postcards act as ships for social as well as private storytelling. The exhibit will definitely feature items from the PoMo Assortment along with distinctive jobs by performers such as Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Selection, launched through Monica and also Ole Robert Reitan and featuring arts pieces coming from REITAN’s collection, focuses on variety, originality, and also international depiction. To resolve gender disparity in museum collections, a minimum of 60% of its achievements are devoted to women musicians. The assortment includes jobs through artists including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|picture u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|picture u00a9 Antoine Doyen task information: name: PoMo engineers/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.