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From 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, 18 May, the Rothko Museum will welcome visitors to the Long Night of Museums 2024 with inspiring contemporary exhibitions, engaging creative activities and a fiery performance by Polish ceramic artists.

From 1 to 18 May, Daugavpils takes centre stage in the ceramic art world as it hosts the 12th Ceramic Laboratory, an international symposium that welcomes domestic and international artists into an atmosphere of vibrant creativity and sharing.

At 4 p.m. on Friday, 26 April, the Rothko Museum will celebrate its 11th birthday by unveiling two previously unexhibited original artworks by the legendary artist Mark Rothko, which will join the six original paintings already on show. Also on the evening’s agenda is the official launch of the current season’s exhibition catalogues.

At 4 p.m. on Friday, 22 March, the Rothko Museum will close the 12th International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium with an exhibition celebrating the latest creative output by its participants.

From 8 to 22 March, the Rothko Museum will host the twelfth International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium, which will bring together artists from Poland, France, Croatia, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, and Taiwan.

On 1 March, the Rothko Museum will open its all-Latvian spring exhibition season featuring four exciting visual projects. The leading contemporary Latvian painter Frančeska Kirke will present her solo show “Bastion”. Romāns Korovins, known for his work in painting and photography, will offer his one-man show “Let’s Die Together”. Six Latvian artists will come together …

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 February, the Rothko Museum will host an open philosophical discussion “Breaking down the Walls: Freedom of Expression as a Common Value”, organised by the Riga Stradins University Faculty of Social Sciences and Media Diversity Institute Global.

At 4 p.m. on Friday, 8 December, the Rothko Museum will open its Winter Exhibition Season. The opening ceremony will be followed by a public exhibition tour with the featured artists.  

Since 8 September 2023, the 7th bastion casemate of the Daugavpils Fortress is officially available in its new function – as an open-storage chamber for contemporary ceramics from the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (soon-to-be museum) collection.