.pomo museum to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand-new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly take international modern and also contemporary art to the coastal area through a long-term collection as well as a progressing course of short-term events. Her initial gallery task, architect as well as designer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully transform Trondheim's Art Nouveau Post Office constructing in to a 4,000 square meters new site over five floors, in partnership with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will open with a group event entitled 'Mails from the Future', working February 15th-- June 22nd, 2025. The gallery will feature its own selection via long-lasting display screens as well as pair of massive annual events, consisting of solo discussions and thematic questionnaires. Attendee managers will definitely team up along with PoMo's staff to carry fresh perspectives, and an international loaning system will certainly sustain collaboration. Events as well as speaks are going to contextualize the events, and an education course will definitely interact little ones, youth, and adults, with relationships considered with analysis organizations and also universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003. PoMo compilation, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo through Terje Trobe a collaboration between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based architect and also professional India Mahdavi is actually starting her first gallery project with the development and also renovation process of PoMo. Entrusted with cultivating a goal for the gallery in alliance along with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has applied her trademark method to completely transform the historic structure, installed 1911, in to a present-day space. PoMo is going to consist of 3 storeys of event galleries, to house both short-lived shows and long-lasting collection display screens a liquid and welcoming item space developed to malfunction barricades between street, gallery and also art work adaptable cellar areas committed to events and also education a library and research space in the eaves of the property as well as a receiving room and also office on the top floor. Attracting inspiration from Trondheim's cityscape and past, as well as Norwegian folk art and craftsmanship, as well as the tradition of the outdated post office structure, India Mahdavi has actually made a vivid and also joyous makeover that commemorates in-between regions as long as exhibition rooms: daring, vivid seconds will certainly stress PoMo from the cellar to the 4th floor, usually triggered through artworks coming from the long-lasting compilation. 'I wished this museum to really feel inviting and broad, involving both the nearby community and also the international fine art group. It's about reconnecting the neighborhood community along with the city facility as well as their own record, while concurrently delivering a new knowledge that accepts the globe.' illustration u00a9 India Mahdavi Recognized for his considerate renovation and also conservation ventures, Erik Langdalen's design for PoMo are going to permit background to communicate, whilst paying attention to the future. Durability goes to the leading edge of Langdalen's approach, focusing on the treatment and also re-use of historic and also pre-existing properties to minimize greenhouse gasoline exhausts, develop historical anchoring as well as boost social dedication. 'When our experts were engaged in 2021, I quickly knew what possibility the old main post office had as the environment for a brand-new eager art gallery like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinct Art Nouveau design alongside new construction and also brand-new technological solutions has been actually extremely expertly engaging, as well as has resulted in an amount of distinct spaces for potential art experiences.' The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will certainly release along with Mails from the Future, a team show including approximately 100 works through 24 global musicians from its new permanent assortment and significant international car loans. Covering all 3 event floors, the series draws creativity coming from the structure's past history as Trondheim's former central Post Office, using the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like arts pieces, mails serve as ships for public and also personal storytelling. The event will certainly feature items coming from the PoMo Selection along with notable works 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 as well as including art work from REITAN's assortment, pays attention to diversity, creativity, and global portrayal. To resolve gender inequality in museum selections, at the very least 60% of its own accomplishments are actually devoted to ladies performers. The collection features jobs through artists including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt. u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|graphic u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|image u00a9 Antoine Doyen task facts: label: PoMo engineers/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen area: Trondheim, Norway.