.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Position on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly bring international present day as well as contemporary fine art to the coastal area with an irreversible collection as well as an advancing plan of short-term exhibits. Her first gallery venture, designer and also designer India Mahdavi will thoughfully improve Trondheim’s Craft Nouveau Postal service developing into a 4,000 sqm new spots over 5 floors, in partnership along with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open with a group exhibit entitled ‘Postcards from the Future’, functioning February 15th– June 22nd, 2025.
The museum will showcase its own collection via permanent display screens and two large yearly exhibitions, consisting of solo presentations and also particular polls. Guest managers are going to team up with PoMo’s crew to take new point of views, as well as a worldwide lender program will definitely bring up partnership. Occasions and talks will contextualize the exhibitions, and an education and learning program are going to interact youngsters, youth, and also grownups, along with alliances intended with research establishments as well as universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003.
PoMo selection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic through Terje Trobe a collaboration in between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and professional India Mahdavi is actually starting her initial gallery venture with the advancement as well as improvement procedure of PoMo. Charged along with building a perspective for the gallery in collaboration with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has applied her signature method to transform the historical building, installed 1911, in to a contemporary room. PoMo is going to feature three storeys of show exhibits, to house both momentary exhibitions and also long-term collection shows a liquid and accepting item area created to break barricades between road, museum and art work flexible basement spaces committed to events as well as education a public library as well as research study space in the eaves of the building and a receiving room and also office space on the attic.
Pulling creativity from Trondheim’s cityscape as well as past, as well as Norwegian folk art and workmanship, and the legacy of the old post office building, India Mahdavi has actually created a lively and joyful redesign that celebrates in-between locations as long as event rooms: vibrant, colorful minutes will accent PoMo from the cellar to the 4th floor, frequently activated by artworks from the irreversible compilation. ‘I wished this museum to experience welcoming and also broad, interacting both the regional neighborhood and also the worldwide art group. It’s about reconnecting the regional area with the urban area facility and also their very own past, while all at once using a new experience that invites the planet.’ illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his well thought-out renovation and conservation tasks, Erik Langdalen’s concept for PoMo will certainly make it possible for past history to talk, whilst focusing on the future.
Durability goes to the center of Langdalen’s technique, focusing on the recovery and also re-use of famous and also pre-existing structures to lessen green house fuel discharges, create historical anchoring as well as boost social devotion. ‘When our company were actually taken part in 2021, I promptly comprehended what ability the old primary post office had as the setting for a brand-new ambitious fine art museum like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinct Fine art Nouveau architecture in addition to brand-new construction and new technical services has actually been actually really properly appealing, and also has caused an amount of distinct areas for potential art expertises.’ The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will introduce along with Postcards coming from the Future, a group exhibition including approximately one hundred works through 24 international artists coming from its own brand-new permanent compilation and significant international car loans.
Spanning all 3 exhibition floorings, the show draws motivation from the building’s history as Trondheim’s previous central General post office, using the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like arts pieces, mails function as vessels for public as well as personal narration. The event will feature pieces from the PoMo Assortment along with remarkable jobs by musicians like 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 Ole Robert Reitan and also featuring artworks coming from REITAN’s assortment, focuses on variety, creativity, and also international representation. To attend to sex disparity in gallery compilations, a minimum of 60% of its achievements are committed to females artists. The compilation includes works through performers like Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt.
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