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Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. May 31, 2024 – 25 August 25, 2024 I guess we all have wondered if it is possible to travel across the nominal dimensions of what we perceive as time. And can we ever reach the point of absolute connection where present, past and future overlap? One answer that immediately comes to mind is film. Sat in a darkened room, we see a white screen come to life and suddenly may find ourselves in what can best be called a timeless state. However, t

Curated Publication / Kūrets izdevums

12th International Ceramic Art Symposium From 1 to 18 May, 2024 Daugavpils hosted the 12th Ceramic Laboratory – an international symposium that brought together ceramic artists from Latvia, Lithuania, Turkey, Cyprus, Czechia, Georgia, Poland and India. Nowadays, ceramics has become a broad umbrella concept, although, in instrumental terms, it is still primarily associated with clay. In different languages and traditions, ‘clay’ is a catch-all for every ceramic material, from

12th International Ceramic Art Symposium From 1 to 18 May, 2024 Daugavpils hosted the 12th Ceramic Laboratory – an international symposium that brought together ceramic artists from Latvia, Lithuania, Turkey, Cyprus, Czechia, Georgia, Poland and India. Nowadays, ceramics has become a broad umbrella concept, although, in instrumental terms, it is still primarily associated with clay. In different languages and traditions, ‘clay’ is a catch-all for every ceramic material, from

Exhibition at Martinsons House, Daugavpils. May 17, 2024 – August 25, 2024 “Ceramics is my communicator and my point of contact, the nexus of my narrative and relationship with the viewer. This versatile and open-ended medium has a unique capacity to take on and embody new contexts and meanings. Its impressive technological range holds great potential for personal discoveries by an aspiring and inquisitive artistic mind. Clay is a fascinating, sensitive and sensory material w

Latvia Ceramics Biennale 2023-2024 Catalog / Latvijas Keramikas biennāles 2023-2024 katalogs

Exhibition at Rothko Museum, Latvia. December 8, 2023 – February 18, 2024 In one way or another, we always relate ourselves to the space in which we are placed. These spaces, imprinted in our experience in the form of memorised images, inform our perception of the world. Since early childhood, I have been used to taking long walks in nature, and to this moment, these walks, especially those taken in solitude, are my best way to return to the inner dialogue with myself. One-o

Catalog / Katalogs

Self-Medication: Korean Ceramic Art Exhibition at Riga Decorative Art and Design Museum, 5 October 2023 - 14 January 2024   Self-Medication: Korean Ceramic Art is opened as part of the guest country exhibition at the Latvia Ceramics Biennale 2023. This show highlights the latest in contemporary Korean ceramic art, which has built a strong presence in the global topography of contemporary ceramic art by shedding light on different artworks, and in turn, explores the future of

International Contemporary Ceramics Competition MARTINSONS AWARD 2023 Rothko Museum, Latvia, 8 September 2023 – 18 February 2024 This is the fourth time the Latvia Ceramics Biennale has brought together some of the world’s leading ceramicists, throwing Latvia into the spotlight as the current epicentre of activity in ceramic art. Through an extensive and exciting programme unfolding across multiple venues in Daugavpils and Rīga, the forum illuminates current trends and develo

WALKING TOGETHER. Portuguese Contemporary Ceramics exhibition Riga Art Space, 18 August, 2023 - 30 September, 2023 A journey through Portuguese contemporary ceramics with the Aveiro International Biennale of Artistic Ceramics collection WALKING TOGETHER is a cultural exchange project between the International Biennale of Artistic Ceramics in Aveiro, Portugal, and the Latvia Ceramics Biennale towards international promotion of Portuguese and Latvian contemporary ceramics and c

11th International Ceramic Art Symposium 5 June - 21 June, 2023 Exhibition in Rothko Museum, Latvia, 21 June – 17 September 2023 This year, the symposium (and its inaugural exhibition) has brought together Shamai Sam Gibsh (Israel) , Karin Putsch-Grassi (Italy) , Ken Yutdanai Sripaiboon (Thailand) , Ann Nurga (Estonia) , Junghoon Yoon (South Korea) , Adil Writer (India) , Una Gura (Latvia) , Lilija Zeiļa (Latvia) , Ilona Abdulajeva (Latvia) , Kristīne Nicmane (Latvia) and Ne

4METERS Gallery, Daugavpils Fortress. 22 April - 4 June, 2023 Sanita Ābelīte was born in Kuldīga in 1978. A 2004 graduate from the Liepāja Secondary School for Applied Arts, she gained a master’s degree in arts from the Ceramics Department of the Art Academy of Latvia in 2010. Her lively creative record, ongoing since 2006, includes several solo exhibitions and participation in multiple symposiums, residencies, and group shows throughout Latvia as well as in Denmark, Belarus,

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

Catalog / Katalogs