.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will bring worldwide contemporary and modern art to the seaside city by means of an irreversible collection as well as a progressing course of momentary exhibitions. Her first museum venture, engineer and professional India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully change Trondheim's Fine art Nouveau General post office constructing in to a 4,000 square meters brand new spots over five floors, in collaboration with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open along with a group exhibition labelled 'Mails from the Future', running February 15th-- June 22nd, 2025. The gallery will certainly showcase its collection by means of long-term displays as well as pair of large-scale annual shows, including solo presentations and thematic surveys. Visitor managers will definitely team up with PoMo's crew to take new viewpoints, as well as an international loan plan are going to foster cooperation. Occasions and talks are going to contextualize the exhibits, and also an education system will definitely engage little ones, young people, and grownups, along with partnerships organized along with investigation establishments and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003. PoMo collection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic by Terje Trobe a collaboration in between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer as well as developer India Mahdavi is actually plunging into her initial gallery project along with the progression as well as restoration process of PoMo. Entrusted along with cultivating an outlook for the gallery in partnership along with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her signature technique to change the historical building, installed 1911, into a contemporary room. PoMo will definitely include 3 floors of exhibition exhibits, to house both momentary exhibits and also irreversible compilation display screens a liquid and welcoming entry room designed to break down obstacles in between street, gallery and also art work versatile cellar areas committed to events and also education a library as well as study room in the eaves of the property as well as a reception space and also workplace on the attic. Pulling inspiration coming from Trondheim's cityscape and background, and also Norwegian folk art and craftsmanship, and also the tradition of the outdated post office building, India Mahdavi has actually designed a lively as well as joyous remodelling that celebrates in-between locations as high as exhibition spaces: vibrant, multicolored instants are going to stress PoMo from the basement to the 4th floor, usually triggered through artworks from the permanent compilation. 'I preferred this museum to feel inviting and broad, involving both the local area community as well as the worldwide fine art crowd. It concerns reconnecting the local community with the area center and also their personal past history, while concurrently providing a new adventure that accepts the planet.' illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his thoughtful restoration as well as preservation projects, Erik Langdalen's concept for PoMo will certainly permit past history to speak, whilst focusing on the future. Durability is at the cutting edge of Langdalen's method, concentrating on the rehab and re-use of historical and also pre-existing buildings in order to lower greenhouse gas exhausts, develop historic anchoring and increase social devotion. 'When we were actually taken part in 2021, I quickly comprehended what potential the old primary post office had as the setup for a brand new determined fine art gallery like PoMo. The work of weaving the distinct Art Nouveau architecture along with new construction and also brand new technological answers has been very skillfully engaging, and has led to a number of unique rooms for potential art adventures.' The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely release with Postcards from the Future, a group event including roughly one hundred jobs through 24 worldwide musicians coming from its brand new long-lasting selection and also notable international finances. Extending all three exhibition floors, the program attracts ideas from the structure's past history as Trondheim's former main Post Office, using the postcard as a thematic allegory. Like artworks, mails function as vessels for social and also personal storytelling. The event will certainly include items coming from the PoMo Collection along with noteworthy jobs through performers like Fischli & Weiss, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Catherine Opie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, and also Monira Al Qadiri. The PoMo Assortment, initiated through Monica and Ole Robert Reitan and also including artworks coming from REITAN's compilation, pays attention to diversity, originality, and worldwide depiction. To deal with gender discrimination in gallery compilations, at the very least 60% of its own achievements are devoted to girls artists. The collection features jobs by artists like Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, as well as Sol LeWitt. u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|image u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|photo u00a9 Antoine Doyen task details: label: PoMo engineers/ professionals: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen area: Trondheim, Norway.