.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly take worldwide modern-day and present-day craft to the seaside area through a permanent collection and an evolving plan of brief exhibits. Her initial gallery venture, designer and also developer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully improve Trondheim’s Craft Nouveau Post Office building in to a 4,000 sqm brand-new site over 5 floors, in collaboration along with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open with a group exhibition entitled ‘Postcards from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery will certainly showcase its own compilation via permanent display screens as well as two large-scale yearly shows, including solo presentations as well as particular polls. Visitor managers are going to work together along with PoMo’s team to take new standpoints, and a worldwide financing plan are going to foster cooperation. Events as well as speaks are going to contextualize the events, as well as a learning program will definitely interact children, young people, and adults, along with collaborations planned with study establishments and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo compilation, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic by Terje Trobe a partnership in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based designer and also designer India Mahdavi is embarking on her 1st gallery task with the advancement and makeover process of PoMo. Charged along with building an outlook for the gallery in partnership with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually administered her signature approach to change the historical building, constructed in 1911, in to a contemporary room. PoMo will definitely include three floors of exhibition exhibits, to house both short-term exhibitions and long-lasting selection display screens a fluid as well as welcoming entry room developed to malfunction obstacles in between road, museum as well as arts pieces adaptable cellar rooms dedicated to events and also education a public library and also analysis room in the eaves of the building as well as a reception area and office on the attic.
Drawing ideas from Trondheim’s cityscape and also background, and also Norwegian folk craft and also craftsmanship, as well as the tradition of the aged postal service structure, India Mahdavi has created a dynamic and also joyful restoration that commemorates in-between regions as much as exhibit rooms: vibrant, multicolored instants will accent PoMo coming from the cellar to the 4th flooring, usually turned on by art work from the irreversible collection. ‘I preferred this museum to really feel inviting and broad, engaging both the neighborhood neighborhood and also the worldwide craft crowd. It concerns reconnecting the local area community with the metropolitan area center and also their very own past history, while simultaneously using a fresh knowledge that accepts the globe.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his helpful remediation and preservation tasks, Erik Langdalen’s design for PoMo will definitely allow record to talk, whilst concentrating on the future.
Durability is at the center of Langdalen’s approach, paying attention to the rehab as well as re-use of famous and pre-existing properties so as to decrease green house gas exhausts, generate historic anchoring as well as increase social devotion. ‘When our team were actually engaged in 2021, I immediately knew what capacity the aged main postal service had as the environment for a new determined craft museum like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinctive Art Nouveau construction together with brand-new construction and also brand new technical services has been very expertly engaging, and also has caused an amount of special spaces for potential art experiences.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will release along with Mails from the Future, a group event including roughly 100 jobs by 24 international artists coming from its own new long-lasting selection and also considerable worldwide loans.
Reaching all 3 show floors, the series draws ideas coming from the building’s record as Trondheim’s previous core Post Office, making use of the postcard as a thematic metaphor. Like art work, postcards work as vessels for social as well as personal narration. The event is going to include pieces from the PoMo Collection together with noteworthy jobs through performers 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, initiated through Monica and Ole Robert Reitan and including artworks from REITAN’s compilation, concentrates on variety, originality, as well as international depiction. To attend to sex disparity in gallery selections, at least 60% of its own acquisitions are devoted to ladies performers. The selection includes works through artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|photo u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|image u00a9 Antoine Doyen venture details: name: PoMo designers/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen place: Trondheim, Norway.