.pomo gallery to open up in trondheim, norway Opening on 15 February 2025, PoMo is actually a brand new gallery in Trondheim, Norway, that will certainly bring international contemporary and present-day craft to the seaside metropolitan area by means of a long-lasting compilation and also a progressing plan of brief shows. Her very first museum job, engineer and also developer India Mahdavi are going to thoughfully transform Trondheim's Craft Nouveau General post office building into a 4,000 square meters new landmark over five floors, in partnership along with Norwegian engineer Erik Langdalen. PoMo is going to open up with a team exhibition labelled 'Postcards coming from the Future', operating February 15th-- June 22nd, 2025. The gallery will certainly exhibit its own assortment via long-lasting displays as well as two massive annual exhibitions, including solo discussions as well as thematic polls. Guest managers will work together along with PoMo's crew to take new point of views, and also an international borrowing plan will nourish collaboration. Celebrations and talks will certainly contextualize the shows, as well as a learning system will engage little ones, youth, as well as adults, with partnerships organized along with study institutions and universities.Ugo Rondinone, our magic hr, 2003. PoMo compilation, u00a9 Ugo Rondinone|photo by Terje Trobe a partnership in between india mahdvai and also erik Langdalen Paris-based engineer and also designer India Mahdavi is actually starting her initial museum job with the advancement and also improvement process of PoMo. Tasked with establishing an outlook for the gallery in alliance along with designer Erik Langdalen, Mahdavi has actually used her trademark technique to transform the famous structure, constructed in 1911, into a modern space. PoMo will certainly feature 3 storeys of show exhibits, to house both short-term events and also long-term selection displays a liquid as well as accepting item area made to malfunction obstacles between road, museum and also arts pieces pliable basement spaces devoted to events as well as learning a collection as well as analysis space in the eaves of the building as well as a reception space and also office space on the attic. Pulling ideas from Trondheim's cityscape and also record, and also Norwegian folk craft and also craftsmanship, and the heritage of the aged postal service structure, India Mahdavi has actually made a lively as well as joyous redesign that commemorates in-between places as high as exhibition rooms: vibrant, vibrant minutes will definitely stress PoMo coming from the basement to the 4th flooring, usually switched on by arts pieces from the long-lasting collection. 'I preferred this gallery to feel welcoming and also broad, engaging both the local neighborhood as well as the global craft group. It concerns reconnecting the local neighborhood along with the metropolitan area facility and their own past, while concurrently offering a fresh experience that accepts the globe.' explanation u00a9 India Mahdavi Understood for his considerate restoration as well as conservation jobs, Erik Langdalen's style for PoMo will certainly enable past to talk, whilst paying attention to the future. Sustainability goes to the cutting edge of Langdalen's strategy, focusing on the recovery as well as re-use of historical and pre-existing buildings to decrease garden greenhouse gasoline exhausts, generate historic anchoring as well as increase social devotion. 'When our experts were taken part in 2021, I right away comprehended what ability the old primary postal service possessed as the setting for a brand new determined craft gallery like PoMo. The job of interweaving the distinguishing Fine art Nouveau architecture together with brand-new architecture and also brand-new technical answers has been very professionally interesting, and has resulted in a lot of one-of-a-kind rooms for future art expertises.' The India Mahdavi-designed PoMo will definitely release along with Mails coming from the Future, a team exhibit including around 100 jobs through 24 global musicians coming from its own brand-new long-lasting compilation and also substantial global financings. Extending all three exhibition floors, the program draws ideas from the building's history as Trondheim's past central Post Office, using the mail as a particular allegory. Like artworks, postcards function as ships for public and also private storytelling. The show will definitely include parts coming from the PoMo Selection 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 Monira Al Qadiri. The PoMo Compilation, started through Monica as well as Ole Robert Reitan as well as featuring arts pieces from REITAN's compilation, concentrates on variety, creativity, as well as international portrayal. To deal with sex inequality in museum assortments, at the very least 60% of its acquisitions are dedicated to women performers. The selection includes works by musicians such as Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Fritsch, Simone Leigh, and also Sol LeWitt. u00a9 India MahdaviErik Langdalen|photo u00a9 AHOIndia Mahdavi|graphic u00a9 Antoine Doyen project info: label: PoMo architects/ designers: India Mahdavi|@indiamahdavi, Erik Langdalen site: Trondheim, Norway.