Borderland
Juried Exhibition of Artists from the Latgale Region
This year, the Rothko Museum’s annual exhibition of Latgale artists turns its gaze to the border, both as a line on a map and as a threshold of imagination. True to its mission, the show brings together creators across generations and media, united by a shared connection to Latgale, whether as home, muse, springboard, or crossroads.
Here, Borderland emerges as a space of choice and transformation – between staying and leaving, tradition and modernity, the local and the global. The theme echoes through the Rothko Museum itself – once a border Mark Rothko crossed when he left his hometown, never to return, except through his paintings more than a century later.
Beyond geography, the exhibition reflects on art itself as a practice unfolding at the border between normality and abnormality, between what is accepted and what is condemned. Art’s very purpose is to test and redefine existing boundaries: illuminate the marginal, challenge the norm, and celebrate the richness of experience and meaning life has to give.
Seen through this lens, the border becomes an open space for local artists to probe and push against their personal and creative limits, while affirming their connection to Latgale and its layered identity. The show is both a meeting point for artists and an invitation for the viewer to see this complex region not just as specks and lines on a map, but as a source of possibility and inspiration.
Featuring Agnese Leikuse and Agnese Birzenberga-Muižniece, Agra Ritiņa, Aija Bley Cimiņa, Aiva Žūriņa, Aivars Bulis, Alina Petkune, Anastasija Dubovska, Anastasija Šeikina, Andris Kaļiņins, Anna Silabrama, Annele Slišāne, Baiba Priedīte, Dace Pudāne un Ilona Linarte-Ruža, Darja Smirnova, Dominika Grīga, Edgars Vronskis un Oksana Vronska, Ēriks Volonts, Gita Palma, Gļebs Vronskis, Ilgvars Zalāns, Ilze Griezāne, Imants Haņeckis, Inga Vasiļjeva, Inguna Liepa, Ingūna Levša, Irīna Špakova, Ivo Folkmanis, Jeļena Koževņikova, Jūlija Šilova, Jurika Bakāne, Kristīne Nicmane, Ksenia Shinkovskaya, Lauris Bogdanovičs, Lilija Zeiļa, Linards Onzuls, Ludvigs Bērziņš, Maija Bēziņa, Mairita Folkmane, Marina Krasovska, Marta Folkmane, Natalia Marinoha, Natalja Krjukova, Nellija Dzalba, Nellija Muižniece, Olegs Marinoha, Roberts Bāliņš, Sabina Caceres, Sandra Poplavska, Sarmīte Bogdanoviča un Pāvels Terentjevs, Svetlana Saveļjeva, Terēze Juškus, Uldis Čamans, Una Gura, Valija Platace, Vasīlijs Krasnovs un Una Upelniece, Vēsma Ušpele, Vika Eksta, Viktorija Valujeva.
20 February through 24 May 2026
Publicity image: the exhibition’s graphic identity (designed by Irina Bogdanova)
