.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that are going to take international present day and modern craft to the seaside metropolitan area by means of an irreversible compilation and also a developing course of temporary shows. Her 1st gallery task, engineer and professional India Mahdavi will thoughfully change Trondheim’s Art Nouveau Postal service building in to a 4,000 square meters new landmark over five floorings, in collaboration with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo is going to open up with a group show labelled ‘Mails coming from the Future’, running February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will exhibit its selection via long-lasting shows and 2 large yearly exhibits, featuring solo discussions as well as particular questionnaires. Visitor curators are going to collaborate with PoMo’s team to deliver new perspectives, and also an international borrowing program are going to foster cooperation. Occasions as well as speaks will contextualize the events, as well as a learning course will engage children, youth, and grownups, with collaborations planned along with investigation institutions and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo through Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based designer and designer India Mahdavi is starting her first museum project with the development and also makeover method of PoMo. Tasked along with creating a perspective for the museum in collaboration with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has applied her trademark technique to completely transform the historical property, integrated in 1911, into a contemporary area. PoMo will definitely feature 3 floors of show galleries, to house both short-term events and permanent selection display screens a liquid and also accepting item space made to break barriers between road, museum and also arts pieces flexible basement areas devoted to events as well as learning a public library and also analysis room in the eaves of the building as well as a receiving room as well as workplace on the attic.
Pulling inspiration from Trondheim’s cityscape and also record, in addition to Norwegian folk fine art and craftsmanship, as well as the heritage of the old postal service structure, India Mahdavi has actually created a dynamic as well as happy redesign that commemorates in-between locations as high as show areas: daring, multicolored minutes will certainly punctuate PoMo coming from the basement to the fourth flooring, usually activated by arts pieces coming from the irreversible assortment. ‘I wished this gallery to feel inviting as well as broad, interacting both the local neighborhood and also the worldwide fine art crowd. It concerns reconnecting the regional community with the city centre and their own record, while all at once providing a new knowledge that accepts the world.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his considerate repair and also conservation ventures, Erik Langdalen’s style for PoMo will allow past history to communicate, whilst paying attention to the future.
Durability goes to the forefront of Langdalen’s approach, focusing on the recovery as well as re-use of historical as well as pre-existing buildings so as to decrease greenhouse gas exhausts, develop historic anchoring and also boost social devotion. ‘When our team were participated in 2021, I immediately recognized what possibility the old principal postal service possessed as the environment for a new ambitious art gallery like PoMo. The job of interweaving the distinguishing Art Nouveau construction alongside brand-new design as well as brand new technical services has actually been actually really professionally engaging, and also has actually resulted in a number of one-of-a-kind rooms for future art experiences.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will certainly introduce along with Postcards from the Future, a team event featuring around one hundred jobs by 24 worldwide performers coming from its own brand new permanent compilation and significant worldwide financings.
Extending all three show floorings, the series attracts ideas coming from the building’s record as Trondheim’s previous central General post office, utilizing the postcard as a thematic analogy. Like artworks, postcards act as ships for public as well as private narration. The exhibition will feature pieces coming from the PoMo Selection along with remarkable works through musicians including Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and also Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Assortment, started through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan and including arts pieces from REITAN’s assortment, pays attention to diversity, originality, as well as worldwide depiction. To deal with sex inequality in gallery compilations, at the very least 60% of its achievements are actually dedicated to women musicians. The compilation includes jobs through musicians such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|photo u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|photo u00a9 Antoine Doyen project details: label: PoMo designers/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen place: Trondheim, Norway.