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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.

On the evening of 23 May, the Rothko Museum will light up for the European Night of Museums. Visitors can look forward to exhibitions, artist talks, creative workshops and interactive events across the museum and the wider Daugavpils Fortress, where art will come alive through sight, touch and participation.

This year, the Rothko Museum’s annual exhibition of Latgale artists – curated by Aivars Baranovskis and Tatjana Černova – turns its gaze to the border, both as a line on a map and as a threshold of imagination. On view until 24 May, it brings together creators across generations and media, united by a shared …

On 24 April the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils unveiled a new display of paintings by Mark Rothko, inviting visitors into a renewed encounter with one of the defining figures of twentieth-century art in the city where his story began. Drawn from the private collections of Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel, the exhibition – on …

With the opening of an exhibition at 4METRI Gallery, the international ceramics symposium Ceramic Laboratory 2026 gets under way in Daugavpils, bringing together fifteen artists for a three-week residency that leads to a final exhibition at the Rothko Museum.

On 24 April, the Rothko Museum in Daugavpils will open “Transposition. The Rothko Motif”, a solo exhibition by Latvian textile artist Iveta Vecenāne, offering a compelling contemporary dialogue with the legacy of Mark Rothko.

On 12 April, closing the current display of Mark Rothko paintings at the Rothko Museum, admission will be offered at a fifty per cent discount on the full ticket price.

The Rothko Museum in Daugavpils has joined the global arts and culture platform Bloomberg Connects, becoming the first museum in Latvia to be featured on the app and marking a significant step in expanding digital access to art.