.pomo museum to open in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is a new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that are going to deliver international modern-day as well as modern fine art to the coastal area through a long-lasting selection and also a developing program of temporary exhibitions. Her very first museum job, engineer and designer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully transform Trondheim's Art Nouveau Post Office developing right into a 4,000 square meters brand new site over five floorings, in collaboration with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo will certainly open along with a team exhibition titled 'Postcards coming from the Future', functioning February 15th-- June 22nd, 2025. The museum will display its own assortment with long-lasting display screens and also 2 large-scale annual exhibits, including solo presentations and also thematic studies. Attendee curators will certainly team up along with PoMo's group to bring new perspectives, and also a worldwide borrowing plan are going to nourish cooperation. Occasions as well as speaks will certainly contextualize the shows, and an education program are going to engage children, youth, and also grownups, with collaborations intended with investigation institutions and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003. PoMo collection, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|graphic by Terje Trobe a cooperation between india mahdvai as well as erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and developer India Mahdavi is actually embarking on her first museum project with the growth and restoration method of PoMo. Entrusted along with building a perspective for the gallery in relationship with architect Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually administered her signature technique to change the historic property, integrated in 1911, right into a present-day room. PoMo is going to consist of three storeys of show exhibits, to house both short-lived exhibitions and also permanent collection display screens a fluid and welcoming entry area made to malfunction barriers between road, museum and also arts pieces flexible cellar rooms devoted to occasions as well as education and learning a collection and also research study space in the eaves of the structure and also a receiving space and also office space on the attic. Pulling motivation coming from Trondheim's cityscape and also background, and also Norwegian folk craft and also craftsmanship, as well as the legacy of the aged post office property, India Mahdavi has actually designed a dynamic and also happy remodelling that celebrates in-between areas as long as show rooms: vibrant, multicolored minutes will certainly stress PoMo coming from the basement to the 4th floor, often triggered through artworks from the irreversible assortment. 'I wanted this museum to really feel welcoming and broad, interacting both the neighborhood neighborhood and the worldwide craft group. It has to do with reconnecting the neighborhood area along with the area center and also their own background, while simultaneously using a new knowledge that invites the planet.' example u00a9 India Mahdavi Known for his thoughtful remediation and also preservation ventures, Erik Langdalen's layout for PoMo will certainly permit record to talk, whilst paying attention to the future. Durability goes to the forefront of Langdalen's strategy, focusing on the treatment and also re-use of historic and pre-existing structures in order to lower garden greenhouse gasoline discharges, make historic anchoring and also increase social dedication. 'When our company were actually taken part in 2021, I quickly understood what possibility the aged primary postal service possessed as the environment for a brand new eager craft museum like PoMo. The work of interweaving the distinctive Fine art Nouveau design along with new construction as well as brand-new technological solutions has been actually quite professionally interesting, and has actually led to a variety of special rooms for potential art adventures.' The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will introduce with Postcards from the Future, a team event featuring approximately one hundred jobs by 24 worldwide performers from its own new long-lasting assortment as well as significant international fundings. Extending all 3 exhibit floorings, the series pulls motivation coming from the building's history as Trondheim's previous core Postal service, utilizing the mail as a thematic metaphor. Like artworks, mails function as ships for public and personal narration. The show will include items coming from the PoMo Compilation together with remarkable jobs by artists 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 Compilation, initiated by Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan and also including arts pieces from REITAN's selection, focuses on variety, originality, and global representation. To attend to sex disparity in museum selections, a minimum of 60% of its own accomplishments are committed to women artists. The assortment includes jobs through artists including Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and Sol LeWitt. u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|picture u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|picture u00a9 Antoine Doyen venture facts: name: PoMo architects/ developers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen location: Trondheim, Norway.