.pomo gallery to open up in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly carry worldwide contemporary as well as modern craft to the coastal city by means of a permanent selection and an advancing program of short-term shows. Her initial gallery task, designer as well as developer India Mahdavi will thoughfully improve Trondheim’s Art Nouveau General post office building right into a 4,000 sqm brand-new landmark over 5 floors, in cooperation with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open with a group exhibit titled ‘Mails from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will definitely exhibit its compilation via irreversible screens and 2 massive yearly events, including solo presentations as well as thematic questionnaires. Attendee managers will team up along with PoMo’s group to take fresh standpoints, and also an international lender program will definitely sustain cooperation. Activities and talks will contextualize the events, as well as an education and learning plan will definitely engage youngsters, youth, as well as adults, along with relationships organized along with study establishments and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|image by Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and also designer India Mahdavi is embarking on her very first museum venture along with the progression as well as renovation method of PoMo. Tasked along with establishing a goal for the gallery in collaboration along with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has administered her signature approach to improve the historical structure, built in 1911, in to a present-day area. PoMo is going to consist of 3 floors of show exhibits, to house both short-lived events as well as long-term compilation display screens a liquid and inviting item room designed to break down barriers between road, museum as well as arts pieces adaptable basement spaces committed to occasions as well as learning a public library and also investigation space in the eaves of the building and a reception space and also workplace on the attic.
Drawing ideas coming from Trondheim’s cityscape and past history, and also Norwegian folk fine art as well as workmanship, and the legacy of the outdated general post office property, India Mahdavi has actually developed a vivid as well as joyful makeover that commemorates in-between places as much as event rooms: daring, multicolored minutes will accent PoMo coming from the basement to the fourth flooring, usually triggered through artworks from the permanent selection. ‘I preferred this gallery to really feel inviting as well as comprehensive, interacting both the local area neighborhood and also the worldwide art crowd. It has to do with reconnecting the local community with the city center and also their own past, while concurrently providing a new experience that welcomes the planet.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his helpful renovation and also preservation ventures, Erik Langdalen’s layout for PoMo will certainly allow past to speak, whilst paying attention to the future.
Durability goes to the center of Langdalen’s strategy, paying attention to the treatment and also re-use of historical and also pre-existing buildings to lower greenhouse fuel discharges, make historical anchoring and rise social commitment. ‘When our company were actually participated in 2021, I quickly comprehended what capacity the aged major post office possessed as the environment for a brand new ambitious fine art gallery like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinctive Craft Nouveau architecture together with brand new construction and brand new technical services has actually been actually quite professionally interesting, and also has actually caused a number of special spaces for future art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo are going to release with Postcards from the Future, a group exhibition including approximately one hundred jobs by 24 worldwide performers coming from its new long-lasting collection as well as considerable worldwide lendings.
Covering all 3 show floors, the program attracts inspiration from the property’s background as Trondheim’s past core General post office, utilizing the mail as a thematic allegory. Like arts pieces, mails work as ships for public and exclusive storytelling. The show will certainly include pieces coming from the PoMo Collection alongside noteworthy works through artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and also Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Compilation, triggered through Monica and Ole Robert Reitan as well as including art work coming from REITAN’s assortment, concentrates on variety, originality, as well as worldwide representation. To attend to gender disparity in gallery selections, a minimum of 60% of its own accomplishments are actually committed to women performers. The compilation consists of jobs through artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|picture u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|graphic u00a9 Antoine Doyen task info: label: PoMo architects/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.