{"id":63655,"date":"2025-09-05T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/?p=63655"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:00:38","slug":"polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish and Latvian Artists Win Top Honours at the Martinsons Award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At the opening night of the Rothko Museum\u2019s autumn exhibition season, out of nearly a thousand submissions worldwide, the top honours of the coveted Martinsons Award 2025 went to artists from Poland and Latvia \u2013 Daria Kowalewska, Inese Brants, and Lilija Zei\u013ca.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Established in memory of P\u0113teris Martinsons \u2013 an outstanding Latvian ceramicist, innovator and educator \u2013 the Martinsons Award is the creative axis of the Latvia Ceramics Biennale, a landmark event on the European cultural calendar, renowned for its scale, quality and curatorial vision.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s competition call drew 941 submissions from 69 countries. From these, an international panel of experts selected 80 outstanding pieces for the exhibition. The final cut represents 30 nations and features 23 works by Latvian artists. Reflecting this year\u2019s biennale theme, \u201cFrom Stardust to Lush Sprouts\u201d, the exhibition embraces the entire spectrum of creative expression \u2013 from technically sophisticated compositions that impress with superior craftsmanship and mature conceptual depth, to more experimental forms where clay itself dictates character and rhythm, revealing the poetic qualities in human skill and the material\u2019s organic nature.<\/p>\n<p>Following an on-site review on the eve of the opening, the jury distributed awards in the international and national categories, allocating a prize fund of \u20ac20,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners of the Martinsons Award 2025, International Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold: Daria Kowalewska (Poland)<\/li>\n<li>Silver: Hanna Miadzvedzeva (Poland); Hyunjin Kim (South Korea)<\/li>\n<li>Honourable Mention and Residency Prize: Guglielmo Maggini (Italy); Micha\u0142 \u017bes\u0142awski (Poland)<\/li>\n<li>Honourable Mention: Kimie Ino (Brazil); Valdas Kurklietis (Lithuania\/Sweden); Egl\u0117 Einikyt\u0117-Narkevi\u010dien\u0117 (Lithuania)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Winners of the Martinsons Award 2025, National Category<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold: Lilija Zei\u013ca; Inese Brants (Latvia)<\/li>\n<li>Honourable Mention and Residency Prize: El\u012bna Tit\u0101ne (Latvia)<\/li>\n<li>Honourable Mention and Keramserviss Prize: Agate Kalcenaua; Laima Lauri\u0146a (Latvia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The international jury included Aivars Baranovskis (Latvia), artist and curator of the Latvia Ceramics Biennale; Claudia Casali (Italy), art historian and Director of the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza; Kristine Michael (India), independent curator and researcher; Leeji Choi (South Korea), curator at the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art; and Weronika Surma (Poland), artist, lecturer at the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroc\u0142aw, and organiser of the International Ceramics Sculpture Triennale Poland ICST.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2016 and organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics in cooperation with the Rothko Museum, the Latvia Ceramics Biennale has become one of the most important and artistically significant ceramics events in Europe, bringing Latvia wide international recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The biennale\u2019s exhibition programme continues in Daugavpils, C\u0113sis, and Liep\u0101ja, where the Baltic contemporary ceramics exhibition \u201cWindless\u201d will open on 12 September.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth Latvia Ceramics Biennale is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Daugavpils City Council, the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, and Keramserviss.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-63655 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiska-zelta-godalga-darja-kovalevska-polija-vardarbiga-eksistence-samotets-mals-2023-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiska-zelta-godalga-Darja-Kovalevska-Polija-Vardarbiga-eksistence-samotets-mals-2023-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63677\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63677'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Gold Daria Kowalewska (Poland), Violent Existence, grog clay, 2023\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-nacionala-zelta-godalga-lilija-zeila-latvija-izdegusi-ainava-mals-glazuras-angobas-terra-sigillata-redukcija-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-nacionala-zelta-godalga-Lilija-Zeila-Latvija-Izdegusi-ainava-mals-glazuras-angobas-terra-sigillata-redukcija-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63661\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63661'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award National Gold Lilija Zei\u013ca (Latvia), Burnt Landscape, clay, galzes, engobes, terra sigillata, reduction, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-nacionala-zelta-godalga-inese-brants-latvija-veltijums-neatkarigas-latvijas-pirmvalsts-puteju-orkestriem-porcelans-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-nacionala-zelta-godalga-Inese-Brants-Latvija-Veltijums-neatkarigas-Latvijas-pirmvalsts-puteju-orkestriem-porcelans-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63659\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63659'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award National Gold Inese Brants (Latvia), A Tribute to the Brass Bands of the First Independent Latvian State, porcelain, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiska-sudraba-godalga-hanna-mjadzvedzeva-polija-karstais-aukstais-kars-akmensmasa-glazuras-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiska-sudraba-godalga-Hanna-Mjadzvedzeva-Polija-Karstais-aukstais-kars-akmensmasa-glazuras-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63673\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63673'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Silver Hanna Miadzvedzeva (Poland), The Hot-Cold War, stoneware, glazes, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiska-sudraba-godalga-hjondzina-kima-dienvidkoreja-k-kummel-14-porcelans-terauda-skaidas-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiska-sudraba-godalga-Hjondzina-Kima-Dienvidkoreja-K-Kummel-14-porcelans-terauda-skaidas-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63675\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63675'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Silver Hyunjin Kim (South Korea), K\u00fcmmel #14, porcelain, steel shavings, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-valds-kurklietis-lietuva-zviedrija-no-tumsas-uz-akmensmasa-spogulis-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-Valds-Kurklietis-Lietuva-Zviedrija-No-tumsas-uz.-akmensmasa-spogulis-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63671\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63671'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Honourable Mention Valdas Kurklietis (Lithuania, Sweden), From Darkness to\u2026, stoneware, mirror, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/ma58651-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MA58651-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63667\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63667'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Honourable Mention and Residency Prize Guglielmo Maggini (Italy), Vertigos (Learning to Stand on\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-nacionalais-goda-raksts-un-rezidences-balva-elina-titane-latvija-sapnotaji-mals-2024-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-nacionalais-goda-raksts-un-rezidences-balva-Elina-Titane-Latvija-Sapnotaji-mals-2024-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63679\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63679'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award National Honourable Mention and Residency Prize El\u012bna Tit\u0101ne (Latvia), Dreamers, clay, 2024\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-un-rezidences-balva-mihals-zeslavskis-polija-sapludusi-akmensmasa-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-un-rezidences-balva-Mihals-Zeslavskis-Polija-Sapludusi-akmensmasa-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63669\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63669'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Honourable Mention and Residency Prize Micha\u0142 \u017bes\u0142awski (Poland), Fused Together, stoneware, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-egle-einikite-narkeviciene-lithuania-dualitate-starp-dazadam-pasaulem-akmensmasa-pigmenti-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-Egle-Einikite-Narkeviciene-Lithuania-Dualitate-starp-dazadam-pasaulem-akmensmasa-pigmenti-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63663\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63663'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Honourable Mention Egl\u0117 Einikyt\u0117-Narkevi\u010dien\u0117 (Lithuania), Duality Between Different Worlds, stoneware, stains, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-kimi-ino-brazilija-izsmalcinata-druka-toruss-iv-mals-pigments-2025-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-starptautiskais-goda-raksts-Kimi-Ino-Brazilija-Izsmalcinata-druka.-Toruss-IV-mals-pigments-2025-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63665\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63665'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award International Honourable Mention Kimie Ino (Brasil), Crafted Printing. Torus IV, clay, pigment, 2025\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/martinsona-balvas-nacionalais-goda-raksts-un-sia-keramserviss-balva-agate-kalcenaua-latvija-tiekties-un-speleties-akmensmasa-2024-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Martinsona-balvas-nacionalais-goda-raksts-un-SIA-Keramserviss-balva-Agate-Kalcenaua-Latvija-Tiekties-un-speleties-akmensmasa-2024-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63681\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63681'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award National Honourable Mention and Keramserviss Prize Agate Kalcenaua (Latvia), To Strive and to Play, stoneware, 2024\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/en\/polish-and-latvian-artists-win-top-honours-at-the-martinsons-award-2025\/mabb6b1-2\/' class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/rothkomuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MABB6B1-720x485.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-63683\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-63683'>\n\t\t\t\tMartinsons Award National Honourable Mention and Keramserviss Prize Laima Lauri\u0146a (Latvia), Vaporwave Chair, stoneware, engobe,\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Publicity images: Martinsons Award 2025 at the Rothko Museum (photographed by Didzis Grodzs)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the opening night of the Rothko Museum\u2019s autumn exhibition season, out of nearly a thousand submissions worldwide, the top honours of the coveted Martinsons Award 2025 went to artists from Poland and Latvia \u2013 Daria Kowalewska, Inese Brants, and Lilija Zei\u013ca. 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