The Rothko Museum in Daugavpils Opens Its Final Exhibition Season 0 15

Lithuanian artist, curator, and art teacher Mėda Norbutaitė presents the exhibition "The Wedge." The museum explains that in an ironic, almost grotesque manner, she conveys to the audience the alarming issues of modern society — our fears and hopes, envy and insecurity, inflated ego and constant self-flagellation.

"For the artist, humor is both a starting point and a tool to shed light on the personal dilemmas played out in the life of a modern person," the museum notes.

An exhibition by Solveiga Gutaute titled "The Genius of Place" will also be presented. The museum notes that Gutaute creates atmospheric painted spaces where shadow, silence, and flickering light become an independent artistic experience.

Project curator Maris Čakša emphasizes that the exhibition reminds us that "art does not necessarily have to be understood; it is enough to allow oneself to be in it."

The museum also presents an exhibition by Roks Dovidens titled "The Mechanical Touch of Porcelain." Doctor of Art History, artist, and curator Dovidens from Lithuania traces the development of European porcelain art over three centuries and offers contemporary experiments where ancient material is combined with digital solutions. Inspired by archival materials and the work of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the project poses the question: what happens when a person relinquishes part of their power to algorithmic design and robotic production.

Lithuanian artist Diana Rudokėnė will be represented by the exhibition "Topographies of Dreams." Her works explore the fragile boundary between the visible and the invisible, revealing her long-standing interest in the subconscious, memory, and processes of transformation.

Meanwhile, the exhibition "Tension and Transformation: Journeys Across the Borders of Existence," organized by the art community "Pashmin Art," brings together Jan Davo, Peter Bakhaus, Horst Wagner, Fanta Wenger, Reinhard Hanke, Holger Dempwolf, Sonya Parket, and Anna van den Heuvel — eight artists whose works tell of the deep emotional and spiritual experience of transition that a person faces in today's rapidly changing world. Combining abstraction, expressionism, and spirituality, the exhibition explores the boundaries between personal and collective identity and prompts reflection on the challenges of our time — alienation, the search for meaning, and longing for belonging.

The winter exhibitions at the Rothko Museum will be open to visitors until February 8, 2026.

At the same time, until February 1, 2026, the museum will still host two exhibitions from the autumn season — the international competition exhibition of contemporary ceramics "Martinson Prize 2025" and the project by Lithuanian ceramicist Milena Pirštelienė titled "Match on the Sand."