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On 2 October, the Rothko Museum will open “Soul in Close-Up”, a major exhibition bringing together rarely seen works by Latvian and international artists from the museum’s collection. Spanning painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography and video, the show will be part of the museum’s permanent display until October 2028.

On 2 October, the Rothko Museum opens two new exhibitions dedicated to Mark Rothko’s art and life – a multimedia Silent Room centred on his classic period and a renewed biographical exhibition featuring animated photographs from the Rothko family archive.

Artists from the United States, Austria, Estonia, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Poland, Spain and Latvia gather at the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils for “Mark Rothko 2026”, an international painting symposium dedicated to the world-renowned artist.

At 4 pm on Friday, 11 September, the Rothko Museum opens its autumn exhibition season, bringing together artists of different generations from France, Italy and Latvia. Through sculpture, painting, ceramics, graphic art, textiles and installation, the new season reflects on encounter, understanding and the search for light at a time when shadows grow ever longer.

Currently on view at the Rothko Museum, Liu Guofu’s solo exhibition, “Painting of Entropy“, offers insight into the distinctive visual language of one of China’s leading contemporary abstract painters. Among the works on display is the monumental diptych Awakening (2021), commissioned by MGM for Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021 and presented in Daugavpils …

Public sculpture LIMEN by Polish artist Dmitrij Buławka Fankidejski will be unveiled at the Rothko Museum Sculpture Garden at 3 pm on 25 July 2026, becoming the latest addition to the museum’s contemporary sculpture and ceramics collection.

The Rothko Museum has selected the artists for the 22nd International Painting Symposium “Mark Rothko 2026”, taking place in Daugavpils from 18 September to 3 October 2026.

Textile and fibre artists living and working in France are invited to apply for an individual residency at the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils, Latvia. The residency will take place in autumn 2026 and will last up to two weeks. Applications are open until 30 June 2026.

Ahead of the opening of “The Other Mind: Roger Ballen. A Retrospective” at the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils, we offer a first glimpse into the world that will define the new exhibition season. The retrospective brings together five decades of Ballen’s work – from early documentary images to the psychologically charged, symbol‑laden “Ballenesque” environments that …

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’s exhibitions show how artists explore both inner and outer worlds.