.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly take global present day and modern fine art to the coastal area by means of a long-lasting selection and also a developing system of short-lived shows. Her first museum venture, architect and developer India Mahdavi will thoughfully change Trondheim’s Art Nouveau Postal service creating into a 4,000 sqm brand-new site over five floorings, in collaboration along with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo is going to open with a group event titled ‘Postcards from the Future’, operating February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The gallery is going to exhibit its own collection by means of long-lasting shows and two large-scale annual exhibits, featuring solo discussions and particular studies. Attendee curators will certainly work together along with PoMo’s group to take new viewpoints, and also a worldwide loaning system will definitely nourish partnership. Events as well as speaks will contextualize the shows, as well as an education and learning program will definitely interact youngsters, youth, and adults, with relationships intended along with research study companies and also universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo assortment, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|picture through Terje Trobe a collaboration in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based architect as well as designer India Mahdavi is starting her initial museum venture with the advancement as well as renovation procedure of PoMo. Entrusted along with building a goal for the museum in partnership with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her trademark approach to change the historical building, integrated in 1911, into a contemporary area. PoMo will certainly include 3 floors of exhibit galleries, to house both short-term exhibits as well as long-term collection shows a fluid and also welcoming item room created to break barricades in between street, gallery and art work versatile cellar rooms committed to celebrations and learning a public library as well as research study space in the eaves of the property as well as a reception room and also workplace on the top floor.
Attracting inspiration coming from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as history, and also Norwegian folk art and also workmanship, as well as the heritage of the aged general post office structure, India Mahdavi has designed a lively and joyful remodelling that celebrates in-between regions as much as event spaces: bold, multicolored instants will certainly punctuate PoMo from the cellar to the 4th flooring, commonly turned on through arts pieces from the long-lasting compilation. ‘I preferred this museum to feel welcoming and also inclusive, involving both the regional community as well as the worldwide fine art group. It concerns reconnecting the regional area along with the city facility as well as their own background, while at the same time delivering a new expertise that welcomes the globe.’ example u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his helpful reconstruction and also preservation jobs, Erik Langdalen’s style for PoMo will definitely make it possible for past to communicate, whilst focusing on the future.
Sustainability goes to the leading edge of Langdalen’s method, paying attention to the treatment as well as re-use of historic as well as pre-existing properties so as to decrease greenhouse gasoline emissions, make historic anchoring as well as increase social devotion. ‘When our experts were actually taken part in 2021, I instantly recognized what capacity the aged main general post office possessed as the setup for a brand new eager art gallery like PoMo. The work of interweaving the unique Craft Nouveau architecture along with brand new design and also new technological options has actually been actually really expertly engaging, as well as has actually resulted in a variety of one-of-a-kind rooms for future art expertises.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo are going to launch along with Postcards from the Future, a group event including about one hundred works by 24 global performers from its brand-new long-lasting collection as well as significant international loans.
Spanning all three exhibition floorings, the program draws creativity coming from the property’s background as Trondheim’s previous central Postal service, utilizing the postcard as a thematic analogy. Like art work, postcards work as vessels for public as well as personal narration. The event will include items coming from the PoMo Compilation alongside 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 Selection, launched through Monica and also Ole Robert Reitan and including arts pieces from REITAN’s assortment, focuses on range, originality, and global depiction. To deal with gender disparity in museum assortments, at the very least 60% of its own achievements are committed to females musicians. The collection includes works by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt.
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