Museum Night at the Rothko Museum: See, Hear, Feel!
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.
From 8pm to 11pm, the museum storage facility at 2 Komandanta Street will present two exhibitions centred on material ethics – “My Gentle Friend: Awakened Textiles” by the Faustas Latėnas Art School in Zarasai, Lithuania, and “Multimetamorphoses” by the Rothko Museum Youth Club. Between 8pm and 9pm, visitors of all ages are invited to take part in creative workshops focused on textile printing and imaginative ways of reusing pre-loved fabrics.
In the fortress casemates, audiences can discover the Rothko Museum’s contemporary ceramics collection. The earthen medium remains centre stage in the outdoor gallery 4METRI at 8 Hospitāļa Street, where an exhibition will showcase work from “Ceramic Laboratory 2026”, an international symposium bringing together artists from eight countries. Both venues will be open from 8pm to 11pm.
At the Rothko Museum’s main building, 3 Mihaila Street, Museum Night will begin in the late afternoon. At 6pm, visitors are invited to meet the Finnish artist Rose-Mari Torpo, who will introduce her exhibition “Strange Light”.
From 8pm to 11pm, four exhibitions will be on view: “Habitus” by the Daugavpils artist Jūlija Verbicka-Vasiļjeva; “Borderland”, bringing together 60 artists from Latgale; “Ways of Seeing” from the RZ Collection; and “Strange Light” by Rose-Mari Torpo.
Younger visitors will be able to explore “Clay Pixels”, an interactive digital installation marking the 95th anniversary of the ceramic artist Pēteris Martinsons. The work invites audiences not only to observe, but also to contribute.
All events are free and open to the public.
Publicity image: Museum Night at the Rothko Museum by Didzis Grodzs
