Neue Museumsbauten
Neues Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Trondheim
PoMo facade
PoMo, Trondheim 2025. ©️ India Mahdavi, Paris / Erik Langdalen Arkitektkontor, Oslo.
Ugo Rondinone, our magic hour, 2003. PoMo Collection. ©Ugo Rondinone.
Photo: Valérie Sadoun
PoMo main hall with several Franz West sculptures
PoMo, Trondheim 2025. ©️ India Mahdavi, Paris / Erik Langdalen Arkitektkontor, Oslo.
Several works by Franz West.
Photo: Valérie Sadoun
PoMo Reading Room / study
PoMo, Trondheim 2025. ©️ India Mahdavi, Paris / Erik Langdalen Arkitektkontor, Oslo.
Photo: Valérie Sadoun
Das neue Museum bringt mit seiner ständigen Sammlung und wechselnden Sonderausstellungen moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst von Weltrang in die Küstenstadt. Trondheims ehemalige Hauptpost, ein spektakuläres Jugendstilgebäude, wird so in einen inklusiven und inspirierenden Ort der Kunst verwandelt. Zur Eröffnung zeigt das PoMo die Gruppenausstellung „Postcards From The Future“, die bis zum 22. Juni 2025 zu sehen ist.
Das PoMo liegt im Zentrum des neuen pulsierenden Kulturviertels der Stadt. Das kreative Konzept für den Museumsbau, der fünf Etagen mit einer Gesamtfläche von 4.000 Quadrat-metern umfasst, stammt von der in Paris lebenden Architektin und Designerin India Mahdavi. Sie realisierte das Projekt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem norwegischen Architekten Erik Langdalen. Direktorin Marit Album Kvernmo leitet das Museum, das auf eine Initiative der Familie Reitan zurückgeht und von der REITAN AS gefördert wird.
Mehr https://pomo.no/
Copyright Text: PR-Netzwerk | Annette Schäfer, Christine Gückel-Daxer
New Nordic art museum Kunstsilo is unveiled in Kristiansand, Norway
- Photos ©: Alan Williams Photography
- Rettigheter: Kunstsilo
On May 8th 2024, a new museum of Nordic Art was unveiled in Kristiansand, Southern Norway. Kunstsilo, an expansive three floor, 8,500 square meter building will open to the public this Saturday, 11 May 2024, integrating for the first time the Southern Norway Art Museum and the prestigious Tangen Collection of Nordic art. Located on the waterfront in the picturesque peninsula of Odderøya, Kunstsilo will be the largest museum in Southern Norway and house the world’s largest private collection of Nordic art.
Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, BAX and Mendoza Partida have undertaken this extensive heritage preservation project which transforms the functionalist grain silo, designed in 1935 by architects Arne Korsmo and Sverre Aasland, into a world-class cultural venue. Offering panoramic views of the region's spectacular coastline, this innovative cultural centre showcases three art collections, digital art experiences and will host a range of international touring exhibitions. The building’s focus remains the still visible 30 grain silos which act as a central navigation point for the visitor creating a vast entrance hall and access to natural light throughout. On top of the building, a new glass covered bar and event spaces provides views of the archipelago.
Kunstsilo's inaugural exhibition ‘Passions of the North’, drawn exclusively from the Tangen Collection of Nordic art (Closing Autumn 2024) is inspired by conceptual themes from literary giants such as Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf. Unfolding through 25 rooms, each adorned with distinctive moods and pastel colours, the exhibition includes over 600 works made between 1910 - 1990, emphasising a multifaceted perspective on Modern Nordic art and its reflection of life in the rapidly changing 20th century.
Nicolai Tangen says, ‘This cathedral of art in Kristiansand provides the perfect home for the Tangen Collection. I wanted to give the art to a place that is important to me and seeing it across the walls of Kunstsilo in my home city is a wonderful experience. I love the art and I love the town, so this is like a heart transplant. I hope the Tangen Collection at Kunstsilo is enjoyed by visitors for decades to come.'
Kunstsilo also offers a dynamic programme of international touring exhibitions commencing with ‘Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto’ (26 September 2024 – 2 March 2025) an international collaboration between the English artist Edmund de Waal, Kunstsilo, and CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark. This will be followed by a solo exhibition of Norway's leading photographic artist Mette Tronvoll (January 2025).
The museum is also committed to showcasing new technology, including an ambitious digital art experience titled ‘S-Lab’. ‘S-Lab’ is an interactive and immersive environment which showcases work from the Kunstsilo collection bringing each artwork to life for visitors of all ages. For the opening the in-house innovation department have developed an interactive version of the painting ‘Tivoli’ (1935) by Norwegian artist Reidar Aulie. The digital experience moves and interacts turning a 2D artwork into a rich 3D content experience. Additionally, an augmented reality tour has been developed for ‘Passions of the North’ aimed at family audiences.
Reidar Fuglestad, CEO of Kunstsilo comments, ‘Kunstsilo is a beacon on the coastline in Southern Norway and a new home for international art in the Nordic region. Together the Tangen Collection, Southern Norway Art Collection and works from the Christianssands Picture Gallery provide new appreciation for Nordic art in this incredible building.
For further information on Kunstsilo please visit https://www.kunstsilo.no/no.
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Open
Heidi Horten Collection im Palais Goëss-Horten
Heidi Horten Collection
Foto: Rupert Steiner, (c) Heidi Horten Collection
Heidi Horten Collection
Foto: Rupert Steiner, (c) Heidi Horten Collection
Mit OPEN feiert die Heidi Horten Collection die Eröffnung ihrer
neuen
Wirkungsstätte – einem eigens für die Sammlung geschaffenen Museum, das
auf
Wunsch und Initiative der Kunstsammlerin Heidi
Goëss-Horten entstand. Ihrer
Freude am Sammeln und ihrem Engagement ist
es zu verdanken, dass sich nun ein
vormals unscheinbares Gebäude im Inneren des
Hanuschhofs zum
unverwechselbaren Ort der Kunst im Herzen Wiens
wandelt. Nahezu ein
Jahrhundert lang verschiedenen
Zwischennutzungen zugeführt, erwarb Heidi
Goëss-Horten das Gebäude 2019 und beauftragte die Wiener Architekt*innen
the
next ENTERprise Architects, unter der Leitung
von Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-
Fuchs und Ernst J. Fuchs, die bestehende
Architektur den Anforderungen eines
modernen Ausstellungshauses anzupassen.
Nach lediglich
zwanzigmonatiger
Bauzeit, in welcher der Ursprungsbau entkernt
und ein Kellergeschoss hinzugefügt
wurden, empfängt das Museum seine ersten
Besucherinnen und Besucher in einem
lichten Raum, in den zwei wie schwebend wirkende
Ausstellungsebenen
eingezogen sind. Die Ausstellungsflächen sind gegeneinander
versetzt, wodurch
sich immer wieder andere, überraschende
Raumeindrücke ergeben.
Mehr
Information https://hortencollection.com/
Copyright Text: Heidi Horten Collection
Cloud Cities Barcelona
Tomás Saraceno’s first permanent interactive installation in southern Europe opens at Mirador Torre Glòries in Barcelona
Copyright Photos by Patricia Sigerist
Moving through the air at a height between 4 and 10m relative to the floor, or becoming enveloped by the atmosphere of the cupola’s apex, participants are offered a novel sensory experience, converting this observatory into a suspended realm from which to look inwards and outwards, to gather and dialogue, immersed in the multiplicity of worlds made manifest in the changing shapes of passing clouds. Wandering along paths of varying levels of complexity, participants can pause to find a rotating selection of books, in an invitation to inhabit shared time and consider alternative constellations of the urban public sphere, speculative architectures, the environmental crisis, and the entangled web of life.
For more than two decades, Saraceno has been imagining and activating a world free from fossil fuels, in collaboration with spiders and their webs, situated forms of knowledge, and with the vibrant superorganism that is the cosmic web, building an artistic practice of unprecedented variety and scale. Informed by the groundbreaking long-term research and curiosity of the international and interdisciplinary Aerocene and Arachnophilia communities, founded by Saraceno, Cloud Cities Barcelona invites participants into a porous cloudscape of tensions in suspension, to engage in collective critical reflections, activate zones of emergence, and reconsider worldwide networks of care.
In the midst of climate emergency, war, global pandemics, racial-ecocidal capitalism, social exclusion, and the proliferation of clouds of pollution and misinformation, Saraceno’s work addresses matters of environmental and social justice and envisions alternative ways of engaging with Earth’s atmosphere and interspecies ecology. Emerging from his long-standing artistic research "Cloud Cities", a proposal for a common imaginary for an ethical re-alliance with the environment, the planet, and the cosmic web beyond anthropocentrism, his cloud-shaped sculptures, reminiscent of the geometric Weaire-Phelan structure of foam and soap bubbles, act as an invitation to engage from diverse bearings, where there is neither up nor down, no inside or outside, and all is floating. As part of this series, Cloud Cities Barcelona challenges the verticality of the observatory’s distant gaze through alternative geometries of togetherness, so as to suspend social distances and collectively consider the multi-scalar threads of relation that weave our shared but threatened world and bind our interdependent fates. Further Information www.miradortorreglories.com
This is the new MUNCH
More Munch than ever before, world-class contemporary and modernist art, and an outstanding programme of events and activities. 22 October 2021, a brand new museum opens by Oslo’s waterfront, tailor-made for the worlds largest collection of art by Edvard Munch. The new MUNCH will be the number one destination for experiencing Edvard Munch’s life and art. Our new museum will be a meeting place for everyone for all types of cultural occasions. We want to broaden the idea about what a museum is, and provide opportunities for completely new experiences and perspectives. Our brand new, highly distinctive museum building has been designed by Estudio Herreros. It has been specifically designed for major art experiences and is a highly prestigious project for the City of Oslo.
Further Information www.munchmuseet.no
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