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Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 22 April 2023 – 11 June 2023 It is human nature to feel safest in familiar and predictable settings. People are confident when doing what they do best. We are the ones who create ourselves a safe environment and secure conditions to be in – to live, to create, and to move. These conditions and this environment are our fundamental aspirations. However, when does the process become movement only out of inertia? How much of a real push forwar

Exhibition at Martinsons House, Daugavpils. 22 April – 27 August 2023. Ceramic artist Rita Einberga was born on 7 April 1921 in Rīga, Latvia. After graduating from a commercial school, she joined the Drama Theatre studio (now – Latvian National Theatre). From 1945 to 1948, Einberga was a student at the Rīga Secondary School of Applied Arts, where she would eventually teach for 23 years. In the 1970s, having been accepted into the Artists’ Union of the Latvian SSR in 1962, sh

4METERS Gallery, Daugavpils Fortress, 25 November, 2022 - 14 February, 2023 Until February 14, the gallery “4METERS” in the Daugavpils Fortress is hosting a solo exhibition by Ukrainian artist Zinaida Blyzniuk, titled “Brave.” At the end of 2022, Zinaida Bliznyuka (b. 1981) spent time in Daugavpils as an artist-in-residence at the Latvian Contemporary Ceramic Center, creating works for this solo show, now on view at the “4METERS” gallery. “In this project I approached a pai

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 28 October 2022 – 19 February 2023 In most belief systems, one’s expected inevitable end of life is believed to lead to a new form of existence. Be it paradise, reincarnation, absorption into almighty light, or becoming… whatever! Your loved ones are crying their eyes out while you are rocking another dimension in your new reality. Admittedly, experiencing death – the one thing we all have in common – seems to be the end. But death is like

Exhibition at Martinsons House, Daugavpils, 28 October 2022 – 20 April 2023. A breakout game where you must find your way out of dark rooms. An instinctive desire to get to the light, to freedom. Lithophanes are artworks made of fine sheets of translucent white porcelain with a decorative or figurative motif etched or moulded as a negative low relief surface. When lit from behind with either artificial light or natural daylight, these sheets show the scene (image) in the posi

SAFE HORIZONS Baltic Contemporary Ceramics at Gyeonggi Museum of Ceramic Design in Korea, 30 September 2022 - 19 february 2023 In 2022-2023 an ambitious exhibition project of contemporary ceramics from the Baltic States SAFE HORIZONS was on view at the Gyeonggi Museum of Ceramic Design, South Korea. The works of seventy-five artists from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were exhibited to speak about current problems in the world through the medium of ceramics. The project was

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 29 July – 18 September 2022 Artists: Stanisław Brach, Alicja Buławka-Fankidejska, Dmitrij Buławka-Fankidejski, Katarzyna Lipecky, Michał Puszczyński Curator: Marta Wróblewska “The Matter of Space” is our way to experiment in the field of art, curatorship and exhibition-making. We are observing, investigating, verifying and reversing the usual order of things, essenitally deconstructing it just to construct a new one on our own terms. We ar

10th International Ceramic Art Symposium and Festival Ten years ago, an ambitious idea envisioned an international ceramic art symposium, which might someday become one of the most visible ceramic events in the global art space. Ten years on, it won’t be an overstatement to say that the bold idea has materialised, having made Daugavpils into a real ceramic metropolis, known near and far for its Ceramic Laboratory Symposium, the Latvia Ceramics Biennale and high-quality exhibi

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 8 July – 16 October, 2022 This is the third solo show by Rūdis Pētersons, aka Del Ruden, with a title carefully chosen to bring together all the exhibits, in this case – paintings and ceramics. When the author was getting ready with the concept and the works, his thoughts revolved around nature and its almighty power on the one hand and porcelain on the other – this delicate, sophisticated and often highly demanding material. The first wor

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 8 July – 16 October 2022 The collection of works by 65 artists now on show at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils is a symbolic digest of the trends and developments in Lithuanian ceramic art across the past two decades. Designed to represent the diversity of ceramic art created between 1999 and 2022, the collection reveals unexpected, sometimes paradoxical juxtapositions between different ceramic works, ranging from the idea of a dec

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 22 April – 26 June, 2022 My creative pursuits in this exhibition cover an extended period when I’ve been reflecting on personally meaningful topics that give me strength and inspiration to be fully present in the ‘here‑and‑now’. Our life is made of stories, some adventurous and eventful, so dynamic and expansive they could fill entire books, others more secretive, hidden deep in the innermost chambers of our memory and subconscious. This n

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. 22 April – 26 June 2022 “How does it feel (..) like a complete unknown like a rolling stone?” Bob Dylan “If I wanted to draw a head and present its true outline, I could only depict the outer form. My personal impulse would make its presence immediately felt, clearing the measured lines and streaks or filling them with emotion, which would mean fundamental alterations to the original subject. Only the deeper levels beyond the outer form

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia, 28 January – 10 April, 2022 . Ceramic art offers a unique possibility of combining spatial form and drawing as two complementary elements. I am particularly fond of the combination of white clay and black pigment. My technique is both complex and simple: I use powdered pigment as though it was dust to create a drawing. Slowly and carefully, barely touching, I rub it into the surface, which I then incise. Thus, the drawing is very fragile