PRESENTATION: Postcards From The Future – dreamideamachine ART VIEW

PoMo is a new museum in Trondheim, the main coastal city of central Norway. The museum brings international modern and contemporary art to the city through a new permanent collection and an evolving program of temporary exhibitions. PoMo is the first museum project delivered by architect and designer India Mahdavi, working in collaboration with architect Erik Langdalen.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: PoMo Archive

Cui Jie, Ceramic Giraffe and State Grid Corporation of China, Beijing. PoMo Collection. © Cui Jie. Photo: Terje Trobe

Monica and Ole Robert Reitan have been passionate about visual art for many years. This passion led to a dream of creating a world-class museum in their hometown, Trondheim. Here, they wanted to make international modern and contemporary art accessible to everyone. The PoMo collection developed into a museum collection that is relevant, original and of high international quality. We are also committed to ensuring that the collection represents a broad diversity of artists, across gender and origin. With this foundation, we are building a collection for eternity. History meets the present as PoMo reopens the doors to Trondheim’s former main post office. The inaugural exhibition, “Postcards from the Future”, showcases spectacular international visual art from our own collection, alongside unique loans that address the most relevant themes of our time. This exhibition marks the first encounter with artworks from our own collection, accompanied by remarkable loans from both national and international museums and private collections. Featuring around 100 works by 24 artists spread across three floors, the exhibition offers a preview of what to expect from PoMo in the years to come. Inspired by the diverse perspectives of postcards, the exhibition is presented as a series of small stories where each artist has their own space. Several of the exhibition rooms are curated by the artists themselves, while a few works are grouped thematically. This way, you can explore each artist’s work while also discovering connections across the exhibition spaces. The artists in “Postcards from the Future” address significant contemporary themes such as community, identity, material culture, nature and urbanity.

Works by: Monira Al Qadiri, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Cui Jie, Fischli & Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Isa Genzken, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Anne Imhof, Robert Irwin, Ann Veronica Janssens, Simone Leigh, Sandra Mujinga, Edvard Munch, Catherine Opie, Philippe Parreno, Irving Penn, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ken Price, Susan Rothenberg, Josh Smith, Andra Ursuţa, Andy Warhol, Franz West

Photo: Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003. PoMo Collection. © Ugo Rondinone. Photo: Terje Trobe

Info: PoMo, Dronningens gate 10, Trondheim, Norway, Duration: 15/2-22/6/2025, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fr-Sun 11:00-19:00, Thu 11:00-22:00, https://pomo.no/