{"id":296671,"date":"2026-05-26T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitdaugavpils.lv\/vasara-piecas-izstades-rotko-muzejs-izzino-izstazu-sezonu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:39:09","slug":"vasara-piecas-izstades-rotko-muzejs-izzino-izstazu-sezonu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitdaugavpils.lv\/en\/vasara-piecas-izstades-rotko-muzejs-izzino-izstazu-sezonu\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer in Five Exhibitions Rothko Museum Announces New Exhibition Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At 4 pm on Friday, 5 June, the Rothko Museum opens its summer exhibition season, bringing together photography, painting and ceramics from Latvia, Lithuania, China and South Africa. Moving between psychological intensity, meditative abstraction, cosmic imagination and contemplative observation, the season\u2019s exhibitions show how artists explore both inner and outer worlds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Other Mind: Roger Ballen. A Retrospective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Widely considered one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary photography, Roger Ballen (USA\/RSA) creates unsettling, poetic and deeply psychological work that blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction, reality and dream, human and animal, sanity and madness.<\/p>\n

This retrospective, curated specifically for the Rothko Museum, presents Ballen\u2019s evolution from stark documentary realism to intricately staged, psychologically charged compositions. Presenting the project to audiences in Latvia, the exhibition\u2019s curator Aivars Baranovskis emphasises:<\/p>\n

\u201cBallen\u2019s images are not meant to be understood \u2013 they are meant to be felt. His work provokes, disturbs and lingers in the mind. The exhibition invites you to confront your own subconscious and explore your other mind \u2013 the one we often ignore, but which Ballen fearlessly exposes.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Liu Guofu: Painting of Entropy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liu Guofu (China) paints the rhythms of clouds, water, mountains and mist, translating them into luminous spatial fields. Through meticulous layering, washing and modulation of light, he constructs what appears to be stillness, yet is in fact a suspended state of becoming.<\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s exhibition at the Rothko Museum transforms a scientific concept into a poetic vision. The project\u2019s curator, Calvin Hui, reflects:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an age marked by uncertainty and acceleration, Liu\u2019s work offers a different tempo \u2013 one of attentiveness and inner equilibrium. His paintings remind us that entropy is not only a law of dissolution, but also a condition for transformation. Within dispersion lies potential; within stillness, infinite motion.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Organised in partnership with 3812 Gallery in Hong Kong, the exhibition is supported by MGM.mo.<\/p>\n

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Romualdas Balinskas: Before and After<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long associated with figurative scenes and ironic, often sharply sarcastic narratives, Romualdas Balinskas (Lithuania) turns in his new exhibition at the Rothko Museum towards a more abstract, intuitive and immediate mode of expression \u2013 at once therapeutic, reflective and existential. The exhibition\u2019s curator Tatjana \u010cernova points out:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the artist, abstraction offers a way to reflect directly on history as it inscribes itself through events over time \u2013 be it personal struggles, war or a global pandemic. The painting becomes a kind of postscript \u2013 a note appended to a note, after the present and at once before it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Madara Tropa: Your Breath<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madara Tropa\u2019s (Latvia) work grows out of attentive observation and a deeply personal engagement with the natural world. Her practice explores the relationship between artist and floral form as an interconnected and dynamic system, embodying an empathetic, contemporary approach to representation \u2013 one that recognises plants as co-creators.<\/p>\n

The exhibition presents a series of paintings created through a layered technique, where walnut ink, graphite and collage meet in a subtle material dialogue. In her slow, meditative process, the artist explores the boundaries between inner and outer worlds and chooses to relinquish full control. Materials, pigments and forms assume a degree of autonomy, allowing the image to emerge within the \u2018breath\u2019 shared by artist, plant and viewer.<\/p>\n

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P\u0113teris Martinsons: Cosmic Journeys<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2026, the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics partners with the Rothko Museum on an exhibition series at the Martinsons House gallery to mark the 95th anniversary of the Latvian ceramic artist P\u0113teris Martinsons (1931\u20132013). The second exhibition in the series presents Martinsons\u2019s work from the R\u012bga Porcelain Museum.<\/p>\n

Created in the early 1980s, Martinsons\u2019s \u201cRockets\u201d, \u201cPlanets\u201d and \u201cInterplanetary Stations\u201d reveal the artist\u2019s ability to use porcelain as a springboard for imagination. The pieces carry his signature sense of playful freedom, bold stylisation of form and a lasting interest in humanity\u2019s place within a wider, cosmic scale.<\/p>\n

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Exhibition Dates and Opening Night<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rothko Museum\u2019s summer exhibition season runs from 5 June to 30 August 2026.<\/p>\n

Admission to the new exhibitions is free on opening night.<\/p>\n

The Rothko Museum\u2019s summer exhibition season was prepared in partnership with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, the R\u012bga Porcelain Museum and Gallery 3812 in Hong Kong, with support from the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, the Cultural Programme for Latgale 2026, the Daugavpils City Council and MGM.mo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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