.pomo gallery to open in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a brand-new museum in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly take global present day and modern craft to the coastal urban area with a long-term assortment and a growing plan of short-term exhibits. Her very first museum task, architect and also professional India Mahdavi will thoughfully transform Trondheim's Art Nouveau General post office developing into a 4,000 sqm new site over 5 floors, in collaboration along with Norwegian designer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will open with a team event titled 'Mails coming from the Future', running February 15th-- June 22nd, 2025. The museum will certainly display its own selection with irreversible shows and also two big yearly events, featuring solo presentations and thematic surveys. Attendee managers will certainly work together along with PoMo's crew to deliver new perspectives, and also a worldwide loaning course will definitely bring up partnership. Celebrations and speaks are going to contextualize the shows, as well as an education and learning plan will engage youngsters, young people, as well as adults, along with relationships intended along with analysis institutions as well as universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003. PoMo compilation, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|image by Terje Trobe a cooperation in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based architect and professional India Mahdavi is starting her initial gallery venture along with the progression and also renovation method of PoMo. Tasked with building a perspective for the gallery in partnership along with engineer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her signature technique to improve the famous building, constructed in 1911, right into a modern space. PoMo will certainly consist of 3 floors of event showrooms, to house both brief exhibits and long-term compilation screens a liquid as well as accepting item room developed to malfunction barriers between road, gallery and art work flexible basement rooms devoted to events and education a public library as well as research study space in the eaves of the structure and a reception room as well as workplace on the top floor. Drawing creativity from Trondheim's cityscape as well as past, as well as Norwegian folk craft and workmanship, and the legacy of the aged post office structure, India Mahdavi has made a vibrant and also joyous makeover that commemorates in-between areas as high as exhibition rooms: daring, vivid moments will definitely accent PoMo from the cellar to the 4th floor, frequently switched on by art work from the long-term compilation. 'I wished this gallery to experience inviting and also broad, engaging both the local community as well as the international art crowd. It's about reconnecting the nearby area along with the city facility and their very own background, while all at once using a fresh knowledge that accepts the planet.' sample u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his considerate reconstruction as well as conservation ventures, Erik Langdalen's concept for PoMo will definitely enable past to communicate, whilst focusing on the future. Durability is at the forefront of Langdalen's approach, focusing on the treatment and also re-use of historic and also pre-existing buildings if you want to reduce green house gasoline emissions, generate historical anchoring and also rise social devotion. 'When we were engaged in 2021, I quickly understood what capacity the aged main postal service had as the environment for a new eager craft museum like PoMo. The job of weaving the distinguishing Craft Nouveau design in addition to brand-new construction and also new technological options has been quite properly appealing, as well as has actually caused a variety of special rooms for potential fine art knowledge.' The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will certainly introduce with Postcards coming from the Future, a group exhibit featuring approximately 100 works through 24 international performers from its own brand new long-term assortment and also substantial worldwide fundings. Stretching over all three exhibition floorings, the series attracts creativity from the property's background as Trondheim's previous central General post office, using the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like arts pieces, mails act as vessels for social as well as private storytelling. The exhibition will consist of pieces coming from the PoMo Compilation along with remarkable works by 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 Collection, started by Monica and also Ole Robert Reitan and also featuring art work coming from REITAN's compilation, concentrates on diversity, creativity, and global portrayal. To deal with gender inequality in museum selections, at least 60% of its own acquisitions are committed to females musicians. The compilation includes works through performers such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt. u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|picture u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|graphic u00a9 Antoine Doyen job information: label: PoMo architects/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen area: Trondheim, Norway.