.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will definitely bring global present day and also present-day craft to the seaside city via an irreversible compilation and a growing program of brief exhibits. Her very first museum project, engineer and professional India Mahdavi will thoughfully completely transform Trondheim’s Craft Nouveau Post Office building into a 4,000 sqm new spots over five floors, in collaboration along with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will definitely open up with a group exhibit titled ‘Postcards coming from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will certainly display its selection with irreversible display screens and also 2 big annual shows, featuring solo presentations as well as thematic questionnaires. Guest managers will work together with PoMo’s team to bring fresh viewpoints, as well as a worldwide loaning system will definitely sustain cooperation. Events as well as talks will definitely contextualize the exhibitions, and a learning program will interact kids, youth, as well as adults, along with collaborations considered with analysis institutions and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic through Terje Trobe a partnership in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and developer India Mahdavi is actually starting her initial museum job along with the advancement and improvement process of PoMo. Charged with cultivating a goal for the gallery in collaboration along with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually applied her signature strategy to enhance the famous structure, constructed in 1911, into a modern area. PoMo will certainly feature three storeys of show galleries, to house both short-term shows and also permanent compilation screens a liquid and also inviting entry room made to break down barricades in between road, gallery as well as arts pieces flexible cellar spaces devoted to activities as well as education a collection as well as investigation room in the eaves of the building as well as a receiving room and workplace on the attic.
Drawing inspiration coming from Trondheim’s cityscape and also past history, as well as Norwegian folk art as well as workmanship, and the tradition of the aged postal service property, India Mahdavi has developed a dynamic and joyous redesign that commemorates in-between locations as much as exhibit spaces: vibrant, vibrant instants are going to accent PoMo coming from the basement to the 4th floor, commonly activated through artworks coming from the long-lasting collection. ‘I preferred this gallery to experience welcoming and also inclusive, interacting both the regional area and also the global art crowd. It concerns reconnecting the regional area along with the area facility as well as their own background, while at the same time offering a new experience that accepts the planet.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his thoughtful renovation as well as preservation ventures, Erik Langdalen’s layout for PoMo are going to allow past to speak, whilst focusing on the future.
Sustainability goes to the cutting edge of Langdalen’s technique, focusing on the recovery as well as re-use of historic and also pre-existing properties in order to lower greenhouse fuel emissions, create historic anchoring and also boost social devotion. ‘When our company were actually participated in 2021, I right away recognized what potential the old major postal service possessed as the setup for a brand-new enthusiastic art gallery like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinctive Fine art Nouveau design together with brand-new construction and brand-new technical solutions has actually been extremely professionally stimulating, and has resulted in an amount of unique spaces for potential fine art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely introduce along with Mails coming from the Future, a team show including about one hundred works by 24 global musicians from its own new irreversible compilation and also considerable global financings.
Extending all three show floors, the program attracts creativity coming from the building’s past history as Trondheim’s former central General post office, making use of the postcard as a particular analogy. Like arts pieces, mails serve as vessels for social as well as personal storytelling. The show is going to feature pieces from the PoMo Compilation alongside significant works by artists like Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, as well as Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Collection, launched through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan and also featuring artworks coming from REITAN’s collection, concentrates on range, creativity, and worldwide depiction. To deal with gender discrimination in gallery collections, a minimum of 60% of its own accomplishments are actually devoted to females artists. The selection consists of works by musicians such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|photo u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|graphic u00a9 Antoine Doyen project details: label: PoMo engineers/ professionals: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.