.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly take worldwide contemporary and also modern art to the seaside urban area through an irreversible compilation as well as a developing course of short-lived exhibitions. Her initial museum project, engineer and developer India Mahdavi will thoughfully enhance Trondheim’s Art Nouveau General post office creating in to a 4,000 square meters brand-new landmark over five floorings, in partnership with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open up with a group exhibit labelled ‘Mails from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will definitely feature its own assortment through irreversible display screens as well as pair of large-scale yearly exhibitions, consisting of solo presentations and particular studies. Visitor curators are going to work together along with PoMo’s crew to carry new viewpoints, as well as a worldwide lending program are going to nourish partnership. Activities and also speaks are going to contextualize the shows, and an education course will engage youngsters, youth, and also adults, with alliances prepared with investigation companies and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo selection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo through Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and developer India Mahdavi is starting her very first museum project along with the growth and remodelling method of PoMo. Tasked with building a perspective for the museum in partnership with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has used her trademark technique to improve the famous property, installed 1911, into a modern area. PoMo will definitely include three floors of event showrooms, to house both temporary exhibits as well as long-lasting selection displays a liquid as well as accepting item space created to break down obstacles between road, gallery and artworks versatile basement rooms dedicated to events and education and learning a public library as well as research study space in the eaves of the structure and also a receiving room and also office on the top floor.
Attracting motivation from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as past, in addition to Norwegian folk art as well as craftsmanship, as well as the heritage of the outdated postal service building, India Mahdavi has actually developed a vivid and joyful redesign that commemorates in-between places as high as exhibition rooms: daring, vibrant seconds are going to punctuate PoMo coming from the cellar to the fourth floor, commonly turned on through art work coming from the permanent selection. ‘I desired this gallery to experience welcoming and broad, involving both the neighborhood community and also the global fine art group. It’s about reconnecting the local area community along with the urban area facility and also their own background, while at the same time supplying a new experience that accepts the globe.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his thoughtful reconstruction and also preservation projects, Erik Langdalen’s style for PoMo will make it possible for record to communicate, whilst concentrating on the future.
Sustainability is at the leading edge of Langdalen’s technique, paying attention to the recovery and also re-use of historical and pre-existing properties if you want to lessen greenhouse fuel exhausts, create historic anchoring as well as rise social dedication. ‘When we were participated in 2021, I instantly knew what capacity the old major post office possessed as the setup for a brand-new eager art gallery like PoMo. The job of interweaving the distinguishing Craft Nouveau architecture in addition to brand-new construction and brand new technical options has been incredibly properly engaging, as well as has resulted in a lot of distinct rooms for future art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will launch with Postcards from the Future, a team event featuring about 100 jobs through 24 international musicians from its new permanent selection as well as significant international financings.
Reaching all three show floors, the series pulls inspiration coming from the building’s history as Trondheim’s former central Post Office, utilizing the mail as a particular allegory. Like art work, postcards act as ships for social and private storytelling. The event will certainly feature pieces from the PoMo Compilation together with remarkable jobs by performers including Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and Monira Al Qadiri.
The PoMo Assortment, started through Monica and also Ole Robert Reitan as well as featuring arts pieces from REITAN’s assortment, concentrates on range, originality, and global depiction. To address sex discrimination in museum compilations, at least 60% of its own acquisitions are actually dedicated to girls musicians. The compilation includes works through performers such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
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