.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will bring global modern and contemporary craft to the seaside metropolitan area through a long-term selection and an advancing system of temporary events. Her initial museum project, engineer as well as designer India Mahdavi will thoughfully transform Trondheim’s Art Nouveau Postal service creating into a 4,000 square meters new landmark over 5 floorings, in cooperation with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open up along with a team show entitled ‘Mails from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will feature its own assortment by means of irreversible screens as well as two big yearly shows, consisting of solo discussions as well as thematic questionnaires. Visitor curators are going to collaborate along with PoMo’s team to take fresh viewpoints, and an international finance plan will sustain collaboration. Activities and talks are going to contextualize the shows, and an education program will definitely engage children, youth, and grownups, with alliances planned along with investigation institutions and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo collection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|image through Terje Trobe a partnership in between india mahdvai and erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer as well as designer India Mahdavi is actually plunging into her very first gallery project with the development as well as renovation method of PoMo. Charged with developing a goal for the museum in relationship along with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually applied her trademark strategy to enhance the famous structure, constructed in 1911, right into a present-day area. PoMo will consist of 3 floors of show showrooms, to house both temporary events and also long-lasting compilation display screens a fluid as well as welcoming entry space made to break barriers in between road, museum as well as artworks flexible basement areas dedicated to events and education and learning a library and also analysis room in the eaves of the building and a receiving area and also workplace on the attic.
Pulling motivation from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as background, along with Norwegian folk craft and also workmanship, and also the legacy of the aged general post office building, India Mahdavi has created a lively and also joyful renovation that celebrates in-between locations as long as exhibition spaces: strong, multicolored instants are going to accent PoMo from the basement to the 4th flooring, often switched on by artworks coming from the long-lasting collection. ‘I preferred this museum to feel welcoming and also comprehensive, involving both the local area neighborhood and also the worldwide fine art crowd. It’s about reconnecting the local neighborhood along with the city center and their personal past, while concurrently using a new knowledge that accepts the planet.’ sample u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his thoughtful renovation and preservation jobs, Erik Langdalen’s concept for PoMo will allow past to talk, whilst focusing on the future.
Durability is at the center of Langdalen’s method, concentrating on the rehabilitation as well as re-use of famous and pre-existing buildings to lessen greenhouse gas exhausts, produce historic anchoring as well as rise social dedication. ‘When our experts were actually engaged in 2021, I right away recognized what ability the old primary post office had as the setup for a brand new determined craft gallery like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinguishing Art Nouveau architecture alongside brand new architecture as well as new technical remedies has actually been very professionally appealing, and also has actually led to an amount of special rooms for future art adventures.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo are going to introduce along with Postcards from the Future, a team exhibition featuring about 100 works by 24 international artists coming from its brand-new permanent assortment and considerable global fundings.
Reaching all 3 show floorings, the show attracts ideas coming from the building’s past history as Trondheim’s former core General post office, using the mail as a thematic allegory. Like artworks, postcards act as ships for public and also private storytelling. The event will certainly feature items coming from the PoMo Selection alongside significant jobs through musicians 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 Assortment, started by Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan and featuring arts pieces from REITAN’s compilation, concentrates on variety, originality, and also worldwide portrayal. To resolve sex disparity in gallery compilations, at least 60% of its achievements are actually committed to women musicians. The selection includes works by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt.
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