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On August 5 Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre opens an exhibition “Pēteris Martinsons. Shapes and Lines” at Panevėžys Art Gallery. The exhibition is organised enriching the events of 3rd Latvia Ceramics Biennale and presents works of Pēteris Martinsons from Latvia and Lithuania thus affirming historical cultural ties. Exhibition is open until September 25. “The father …

For the past week, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre received a group of experts in ceramics who convened to select the winners of Martinsons Award 2021, an international juried exhibition of ceramics with a prize fund of 20,000 EUR. Martinsons Award 2021 is the international juried exhibition of the 3rd Latvia Ceramics Biennale, featuring artists …

Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, in cooperation with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, hosts the 9th international ceramic art symposium “Ceramic Laboratory”. For the ninth time running, Daugavpils Fortress is captured by ceramicists – for an entire fortnight, symposium participants from seven countries unite forces in a single front, making ceramic artworks and experimenting …

On St. Peter’s Day, 29 June, an augmented reality exhibition dedicated to Pēteris Martinsons opens in the courtyard of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre. Celebrating the 90th anniversary since the birth of the world-renowned native of Daugavpils – ceramicist, architect and art educator Pēteris Martinsons (1931–2013) – and looking forward to the opening of his …

From 5 June through 25 July, Rīga Art Space (3 Kungu Street, Rīga) hosts a new exhibition project, GEO, featuring contemporary paintings from the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre collection. *Geometry – a branch of mathematics that studies the spatial shapes and properties of things. *Geography – a system of natural and social sciences that …

Starting 5 June, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre resumes receiving individual visitors

The Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre courtyard has been temporarily transformed with a Discharge-Recharge Wall – a custom-made site for an interactive self-performance open to anyone willing to join.

Finest pieces from Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre in a permanent exhibition

The courtyard of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre has become an exhibition space for a steel sculpture by Solveiga Vasiļjeva “What did You Want to Say Me? Nothing.”, in due course to be followed by other objects.

To celebrate the birthday of artist and art educator Silva Linarte (1939-2018), Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre and DIVRUNA Association for the Study and Conservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage release the English translation of the publication “Life Stories of Latgale-Born Artists. Silva Linarte”. Silva Linarte was born on 26 February 1939 in Līksna Parish, …