.pomo gallery to open up in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly bring worldwide contemporary and also modern fine art to the coastal area with a permanent assortment and a developing system of brief exhibitions. Her 1st gallery task, architect and professional India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully transform Trondheim’s Craft Nouveau Post Office developing right into a 4,000 sqm brand-new spots over five floorings, in cooperation along with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will definitely open along with a group show entitled ‘Mails coming from the Future’, working February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will definitely showcase its compilation via long-lasting shows and pair of big yearly shows, consisting of solo presentations as well as thematic polls. Attendee conservators will certainly collaborate with PoMo’s staff to carry fresh point of views, as well as an international lender course will sustain collaboration. Events as well as talks will definitely contextualize the shows, as well as an education and learning plan will definitely interact kids, youth, as well as adults, with partnerships prepared with study establishments and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo compilation, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|picture through Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai and erik Langdalen Paris-based designer and also designer India Mahdavi is actually embarking on her very first museum job with the growth and also renovation process of PoMo. Tasked with building an outlook for the gallery in collaboration along with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her trademark method to improve the famous structure, installed 1911, right into a modern area. PoMo will include three storeys of exhibit showrooms, to house both brief exhibitions and also long-lasting assortment screens a fluid and welcoming item room designed to break obstacles between street, museum and artworks versatile basement spaces dedicated to activities and learning a collection and also investigation room in the eaves of the structure as well as a reception area and also office space on the attic.
Attracting creativity coming from Trondheim’s cityscape and past, as well as Norwegian folk craft as well as craftsmanship, and also the heritage of the old postal service structure, India Mahdavi has actually made a vivid and cheerful improvement that commemorates in-between locations as high as exhibit spaces: bold, colorful moments are going to stress PoMo from the cellar to the 4th floor, frequently activated by arts pieces coming from the long-lasting selection. ‘I wished this gallery to experience welcoming as well as broad, interacting both the neighborhood neighborhood and the worldwide craft crowd. It has to do with reconnecting the local area along with the area center as well as their very own record, while at the same time providing a new adventure that invites the world.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his helpful renovation as well as conservation ventures, Erik Langdalen’s style for PoMo will definitely permit background to communicate, whilst focusing on the future.
Sustainability is at the leading edge of Langdalen’s method, concentrating on the recovery and re-use of historic and pre-existing properties in order to reduce green house gasoline emissions, generate historical anchoring as well as boost social commitment. ‘When our experts were actually taken part in 2021, I immediately comprehended what potential the old primary postal service possessed as the setting for a new enthusiastic art museum like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinct Craft Nouveau architecture alongside brand new construction and brand-new technical solutions has been actually extremely professionally interesting, as well as has led to a number of unique rooms for potential art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will certainly introduce along with Mails coming from the Future, a group event including around one hundred works by 24 international artists from its own brand-new irreversible assortment and also notable worldwide finances.
Extending all three exhibit floorings, the program attracts ideas coming from the structure’s past history as Trondheim’s past central Post Office, making use of the postcard as a particular analogy. Like art work, postcards work as vessels for social and private storytelling. The event will certainly consist of pieces coming from the PoMo Selection along with remarkable works by artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, as well as Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Selection, triggered through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan as well as featuring arts pieces coming from REITAN’s collection, concentrates on range, creativity, as well as international depiction. To resolve gender discrimination in gallery selections, a minimum of 60% of its own achievements are devoted to ladies musicians. The selection includes jobs through performers such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|picture u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|image u00a9 Antoine Doyen task details: title: PoMo designers/ professionals: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.