Art, Site, and Spirit: Works from the Rothko Museum Collection on View in Rēzekne
At 3 p.m. on Friday, 9 January, the Latgale Culture and History Museum in Rēzekne will unveil “The Spirit of a Place”, an exhibition presenting artworks from the Rothko Museum Collection, inspired by the layered atmosphere of the Daugavpils Fortress.
The exhibition brings together works in printmaking, painting, and sculpture that engage with the historical, architectural, and artistic fabric of the fortress, folding the artists’ locally lived experiences into a nuanced polyphonic story of a space and the enduring traces left by human presence.
Completed in 1878 on the site of the old city of Dünaburg, today, the fortress stands as a remarkable cultural landmark that has undergone a fundamental transformation from a closed military stronghold to an open and vibrant cultural hub. Artists drawn to its grounds trace the echoes of time, the rhythms of structure, the resilience of material, and the many ways people engage with their surroundings. Each piece created here shows how a place acquires meaning: how architecture stirs emotion and landscape resonates with metaphor and symbol.
The exhibition features works by Sara Carrillo Cardenas and Łukasz Koniuszy (Poland), Inga Heamägi (Estonia), Edvin Dragičević (Croatia), Sioban Piercy (Ireland), Elizabeth Rose (USA), Rasmus Danø (Denmark), Caro Jost and Jürgen Hӧritzsch (Germany), Senso (Switzerland), and Egons Peršēvičs (Latvia).
The exhibition will be on show from 9 January to 21 February 2026.
Publicity image: Łukasz Koniuszy (Poland), Spirit of a Place II (2025). Digital print, 100 x 70 cm, GR-706.
