SUMMER 2026: SEASON’S OPENING

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.

Moving from contemplative and restrained non-figurative painting and installation to photographic narratives that trace experience as it inscribes itself on mind and body, the season echoes silence, light, belonging, memory, and stillness.

The season’s line-up includes:

  • The Other Mind: Roger Ballen. A Retrospective
  • Liu Guofu: Painting of Entropy
  • Romualdas Balinskas: Before and After
  • Madara Tropa: Your Breath
  • Pēteris Martinsons: Cosmic Journeys

Admission is free on opening night.

The Rothko Museum’s summer exhibition season runs from 5 June to 30 August 2026.


The Rothko Museum’s summer exhibition season was prepared in partnership with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, the Rīga Porcelain Museum and Gallery 3812 in Hong Kong, with support from the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, the Cultural Programme for Latgale 2026, the Daugavpils City Council and MGM.mo.

More details here.

Publicity image: Roger Ballen (USA/RSA). “Roar” (detail). Photography. 2002