.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand-new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will definitely carry global modern-day as well as modern craft to the seaside metropolitan area with a long-lasting selection and also a growing system of short-term exhibits. Her first gallery venture, designer and professional India Mahdavi will thoughfully enhance Trondheim’s Art Nouveau Postal service building in to a 4,000 square meters new spots over 5 floorings, in cooperation along with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will open along with a group exhibit labelled ‘Postcards coming from the Future’, working February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will definitely showcase its own collection via long-term screens as well as two massive annual exhibits, including solo discussions as well as particular polls. Guest conservators are going to team up along with PoMo’s crew to deliver fresh viewpoints, and also a worldwide lending program will certainly sustain collaboration. Activities as well as speaks will definitely contextualize the exhibitions, and an education program will engage little ones, young people, as well as grownups, along with collaborations prepared along with investigation establishments 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 as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based designer and professional India Mahdavi is actually plunging into her 1st museum venture along with the growth as well as improvement procedure of PoMo. Charged with developing a goal for the museum in relationship with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her signature method to improve the historical property, constructed in 1911, into a modern space. PoMo is going to consist of three floors of exhibition galleries, to house both short-lived exhibitions as well as long-lasting compilation screens a fluid and also accepting item area designed to break barriers in between street, gallery as well as art work versatile cellar spaces dedicated to celebrations and also education a public library and also research study area in the eaves of the building as well as a receiving room as well as office space on the attic.
Drawing inspiration coming from Trondheim’s cityscape and also history, in addition to Norwegian folk fine art and craftsmanship, as well as the legacy of the outdated postal service structure, India Mahdavi has made a lively and also cheerful improvement that celebrates in-between regions as high as exhibit rooms: strong, colorful minutes are going to punctuate PoMo coming from the basement to the 4th floor, often activated by artworks coming from the long-term assortment. ‘I wished this museum to really feel inviting and also comprehensive, involving both the regional community and also the international craft crowd. It concerns reconnecting the local community with the metropolitan area center and also their personal history, while concurrently providing a fresh adventure that accepts the world.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his thoughtful restoration as well as preservation jobs, Erik Langdalen’s style for PoMo will permit past history to talk, whilst focusing on the future.
Durability is at the forefront of Langdalen’s technique, concentrating on the rehabilitation and re-use of famous and also pre-existing buildings in order to lower greenhouse fuel emissions, produce historic anchoring and also boost social dedication. ‘When we were taken part in 2021, I right away recognized what ability the old primary postal service possessed as the setting for a brand new determined fine art gallery like PoMo. The job of weaving the unique Craft Nouveau design along with new construction and also brand-new technological solutions has been actually quite properly interesting, and also has actually caused a variety of unique spaces for potential art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely launch along with Mails from the Future, a team event featuring roughly one hundred works through 24 global performers coming from its own brand-new irreversible compilation as well as substantial international fundings.
Reaching all three exhibit floorings, the show draws inspiration coming from the structure’s background as Trondheim’s former main General post office, making use of the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like artworks, postcards function as ships for public and also exclusive narration. The show will certainly consist of pieces from the PoMo Compilation along with noteworthy works through 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, initiated through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan as well as featuring artworks from REITAN’s assortment, concentrates on diversity, originality, and also international portrayal. To attend to gender inequality in museum collections, at the very least 60% of its accomplishments are dedicated to ladies musicians. The collection features works through musicians like Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|graphic u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|image u00a9 Antoine Doyen project info: label: PoMo designers/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen place: Trondheim, Norway.