PoMo will thoughtfully transform a former Art Nouveau Post Office building into a cultural destination for the city. It will be the first museum project led by interior designer India Mahdavi, working in collaboration with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen.
The museum will form the centre of the city’s cultural quarter in the heart of Trondheim and opens with a group exhibition titled Postcards From The Future on the 15th February 2025.
Set over five floors, PoMo will incorporate exhibition space, a welcoming public meeting and events space, and a library and reading area that references traditional Norwegian folk art and woodwork. The PoMo Collection aims to create a ‘new normal’ for contemporary Norwegian institutions, dedicating 60% of its acquisitions budget to women artists to address inequalities in museum collections.
At PoMo, we will place the visitor’s experience at the centre of everything we do, bringing worldclass modern and contemporary art to enrich the cultural life of our city, and reimagining our historic
Marit Album Kvernmo, Director of PoMo
building to provide an accessible and intuitive experience for our visitors. Embracing the unique
opportunity to transform our building and create a new museum collection, we are delighted to be
working with both local artisans and internationally acclaimed designers to bring this vision to life. I
look forward to welcoming local and international audiences to explore our new home for culture
in Trondheim.
The PoMo Collection
Initiated with artworks from the collection of REITAN and the vision of Monica Reitan and Ole Robert
Reitan, the growing PoMo Collection is inspired by values of diversity, originality and internationality. The permanent collection aims to create a ‘new normal’ for Norwegian institutions, dedicating a minimum of 60% of its acquisitions budget to women artists to tackle gender inequality in museum collections at large. Artists featured in the collection include Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Katharina Fritsch, Anne Imhof, Cui Jie, Simone Leigh, Sol LeWitt, Sandra Mujinga, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone, Andra Ursu?a and Franz West. PoMo will continue to expand and diversify its collection in the coming years, increasing the visibility of artists underrepresented in Norwegian institutional collections and creating new dialogues on the art of our time.
PoMo will open to the public on 15th February 2025 with the exhibition ‘Postcards from the Future’,
running until 22nd June 2025. at Dronningens Gate 10, 7011 Trondheim, Norway pomo.no
About
An architect and designer, India Mahdavi develops, since the opening of her studio in Paris in 2000, unique creations with a vision of happiness, colour, form and texture. Be it working on large
architectural projects, interior concepts, artistic collaborations or her own furniture range, India’s
distinctive neo-baroque style has often earned her the title of the “reigning queen of colour”. India Mahdavi has conceived many immersive environments in private spaces, bars, restaurants, retail concepts, clubs and hotels, from the “Hôtel du Cloître” in Arles or “Monte Carlo Beach Hotel” in Monaco, to the “Gallery at Sketch” in London or “Ladurée” in Los Angeles and Tokyo. India has also newly received international plaudits for her interpretation of Rome’s “Villa Medici” interiors, as well as her scenography and exhibition design on the “Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi” exhibition at the NGV International museum in Melbourne. India was named Designer of the Year at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023.
Erik Langdalen Arkitektkontor was established in Oslo in 1999. The practice has since then gained
extensive competence and experience within the fields of architectural preservation, museum architecture, and housing. Over the years the office has concentrated its efforts around a number of
preservational projects for different private and public clients. The office has a conceptual approach to architecture, drawing inspiration from history, developing site-specific and tailored solutions of unique architectural quality focusing on restauration through use.
Erik Langdalen is also a Professor in preservation and Head of Institute of Form, Theory and History at the Oslo school of architecture, he is the author and editor of several books dealing with preservation in architecture, and he owns and runs a cultural centre at the historic Budsjord farm on Dovre
