.pomo gallery to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that are going to deliver worldwide modern and also modern art to the seaside metropolitan area with a long-term selection as well as a progressing course of momentary shows. Her 1st museum venture, architect and also professional India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully change Trondheim’s Craft Nouveau Postal service building right into a 4,000 square meters brand new site over five floors, in cooperation along with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will open along with a team show entitled ‘Postcards coming from the Future’, functioning February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will definitely exhibit its compilation through long-lasting displays as well as pair of large yearly events, consisting of solo discussions and also thematic polls. Visitor managers will certainly team up with PoMo’s group to take fresh perspectives, as well as a global financing plan will nourish collaboration. Activities and also speaks will contextualize the exhibitions, as well as an education system will definitely interact youngsters, young people, and grownups, along with alliances prepared along with analysis companies and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo selection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|picture by Terje Trobe a cooperation in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based architect and also professional India Mahdavi is plunging into her very first gallery task along with the progression as well as makeover method of PoMo. Charged with creating a goal for the museum in relationship with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually administered her trademark approach to improve the historical structure, constructed in 1911, into a present-day space. PoMo will certainly include three storeys of exhibit exhibits, to house both momentary shows as well as long-lasting assortment displays a liquid and also inviting item area designed to break barricades in between street, museum and arts pieces adaptable basement rooms devoted to events as well as education a public library and research area in the eaves of the property as well as a receiving room and office on the attic.
Attracting ideas from Trondheim’s cityscape and also history, along with Norwegian folk fine art and also craftsmanship, as well as the heritage of the outdated general post office structure, India Mahdavi has actually designed a dynamic as well as cheerful redesign that celebrates in-between areas as much as exhibition areas: strong, vivid minutes will definitely accent PoMo coming from the basement to the 4th floor, typically triggered by arts pieces coming from the long-lasting assortment. ‘I wanted this museum to really feel welcoming and also broad, interacting both the local community and the worldwide craft group. It’s about reconnecting the local community with the metropolitan area centre and also their own past history, while simultaneously using a fresh adventure that welcomes the planet.’ sample u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his considerate repair and conservation tasks, Erik Langdalen’s layout for PoMo will certainly allow record to talk, whilst concentrating on the future.
Sustainability is at the leading edge of Langdalen’s approach, focusing on the rehabilitation and also re-use of historic and pre-existing properties to reduce green house gas emissions, make historic anchoring and rise social commitment. ‘When our experts were actually participated in 2021, I right away recognized what capacity the old main post office had as the environment for a new eager craft gallery like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinctive Craft Nouveau design together with brand-new design and brand-new technological remedies has been quite expertly interesting, as well as has actually caused an amount of special areas for future fine art knowledge.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely release with Postcards from the Future, a group show featuring around 100 works through 24 international performers coming from its own brand new long-lasting collection as well as substantial worldwide financings.
Reaching all 3 exhibit floorings, the series attracts motivation from the structure’s history as Trondheim’s previous central Post Office, making use of the mail as a particular analogy. Like art work, mails work as vessels for social as well as exclusive narration. The exhibit will definitely include items coming from the PoMo Selection along with distinctive jobs by 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 Selection, started through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan as well as including artworks coming from REITAN’s assortment, pays attention to range, creativity, and worldwide depiction. To attend to gender discrimination in museum collections, a minimum of 60% of its achievements are actually committed to ladies performers. The assortment features works by musicians including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
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