.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly carry international present day as well as present-day craft to the seaside metropolitan area by means of an irreversible collection as well as an advancing course of momentary events. Her 1st museum task, architect and also designer India Mahdavi will thoughfully completely transform Trondheim’s Craft Nouveau Postal service building right into a 4,000 sqm new site over five floorings, in cooperation with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will definitely open along with a group show labelled ‘Mails from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will certainly exhibit its assortment with irreversible displays and two large-scale yearly shows, consisting of solo presentations as well as particular studies. Visitor conservators will certainly team up along with PoMo’s staff to carry new perspectives, and an international financing system are going to bring up collaboration. Activities and also talks are going to contextualize the exhibitions, as well as a learning program will engage children, youth, as well as grownups, with collaborations organized with research institutions as well as universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|image through Terje Trobe a cooperation in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based designer as well as designer India Mahdavi is actually starting her very first gallery project with the growth and makeover method of PoMo. Tasked with building a vision for the gallery in alliance with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually applied her signature method to change the historical building, installed 1911, in to a present-day room. PoMo will consist of three storeys of show galleries, to house both short-term events and also long-lasting collection shows a liquid and welcoming entry area developed to break obstacles in between road, gallery as well as artworks pliable basement rooms committed to events and also education a collection and also research study room in the eaves of the structure as well as a receiving area as well as office space on the top floor.
Attracting motivation from Trondheim’s cityscape and also past, as well as Norwegian folk craft and craftsmanship, and also the heritage of the old postal service structure, India Mahdavi has designed a lively as well as joyful improvement that celebrates in-between places as long as show rooms: vibrant, multicolored minutes are going to punctuate PoMo from the cellar to the fourth floor, usually switched on through arts pieces coming from the long-term assortment. ‘I wished this museum to experience inviting as well as broad, engaging both the local area community and also the international craft crowd. It has to do with reconnecting the nearby neighborhood along with the metropolitan area centre and their very own background, while all at once providing a new expertise that accepts the world.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his well thought-out remediation as well as preservation jobs, Erik Langdalen’s design for PoMo will certainly allow history to talk, whilst focusing on the future.
Sustainability is at the forefront of Langdalen’s approach, paying attention to the treatment and re-use of historic and pre-existing structures to minimize greenhouse gasoline emissions, create historical anchoring as well as rise social dedication. ‘When our company were engaged in 2021, I promptly comprehended what potential the old main post office possessed as the setup for a new enthusiastic fine art gallery like PoMo. The job of weaving the distinguishing Fine art Nouveau architecture along with brand new design and brand new technological solutions has actually been actually incredibly skillfully appealing, and has actually resulted in a lot of one-of-a-kind spaces for future fine art knowledge.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo are going to introduce with Mails from the Future, a team exhibit including approximately 100 works through 24 international performers coming from its own brand new irreversible assortment and also significant global loans.
Stretching over all 3 show floors, the show draws ideas coming from the structure’s past as Trondheim’s previous central General post office, using the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like art work, postcards function as vessels for public as well as exclusive narration. The exhibition is going to feature pieces from the PoMo Compilation alongside remarkable works through 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, launched by Monica and Ole Robert Reitan as well as including art work from REITAN’s compilation, focuses on variety, creativity, and global depiction. To deal with sex discrimination in gallery assortments, at least 60% of its own acquisitions are devoted to girls artists. The selection includes works 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 venture details: label: PoMo engineers/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen place: Trondheim, Norway.