The Zuzāns Collection news
For one final weekend only, the Zuzeum Art Centre will show the exhibition “Unframed: Leis, Tabaka, Rožanskaitė”. It focuses on the works of three Baltic women artists – Malle Leis (1940–2017), Maija Tabaka (1939), and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė (1933–2007) – in the late Soviet era of the 1970s and 1980s. Starting next week, Zuzeum will be preparing for the opening of the exhibition by the renowned Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm on 13 June. In the meantime, we invite you to discover the works of the Zuzāns Collection at other Latvian art institutions.
🎨 Until 1 September, the Ola Foundation (Ogļu Street 12A, Riga) will host an exhibition of the brilliant Latvian painter Miervaldis Polis “Miervaldis Polis: Keyhole to Paradise. An Egocentric’s Wanderings”, which focuses on the artist’s travel notes across time and space, where he (or Līga Purmale) has posed among giant colossi – ruins of ancient civilizations, wandered through Venice, America, and foreign paintings – present both in Jacques-Louis David’s Death of Marat and greeting Napoleon Bonaparte in the Alps. The exhibition features 26 works from the Zuzāns’ collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
🎨 On 24 May, to mark the 289th anniversary of Rundāle Palace, the museum (Pilsrundāle, Bauska region) will open a personal exhibition of art historian, long-time director of Rundāle Palace Museum and painter Imants Lancmanis “Imants Lancmanis. PAINTINGS”. The most comprehensive exhibition of Imants Lancmanis’ paintings to date, first opened in November 2022 at the Latvian National Museum of Art and later shown in several cities in Latvia, is now symbolically concluding its journey at Rundāle Palace, complemented by the artist’s latest works and the compositions of the museum’s permanent exhibition. The exhibition features the artist’s most recent works and works from several Latvian museums and private collections, including eight from the Zuzāns collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
🎨 From 30 May to 24 August, the Rothko Museum (Mihaila Street 1, Daugavpils) will host an exhibition of paintings by artist Sergey Dyomin under the laconic title “Painting”. Although the unifying element of the exhibition is the artist’s love of painting as a process, the works cover a wide range of themes from Darwinism, religious symbiosis, and power relations, to the displacement of monkeys from their habitats and their use in scientific experiments. The exhibition will also showcase 12 works from the Zuzāns collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
🎨 On the 7 July at the National Museum of Art (Jaņa Rozentāla Square 1, Rīga) a substantial collection from the Uffizi Galleries in Florence will be exhibited for the first time in Northen Europe – 74 masterpieces from the permanent exhibition and holdings of the Pitti Palace Gallery of Modern Art, starting from the unification of Italy in 1861 up to the interwar period of the 20th century. The works of Italian artists in the exhibition will be presented in dialogue with late 19th-century and classical modernist heritage from Latvia, which art experts in Latvia and abroad consider to be among the most internationally recognised aspects of Latvian cultural patrimony. This remarkable exhibition is complemented by three works from the Zuzāns collection.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
🎨 Until 22 June, the Tukums Art Museum (Harmonijas Street 7, Tukums) is hosting the exhibition “The Classical Modernist Uga Skulme”, dedicated to the artist’s 130th anniversary. Uga Skulme (1895-1963) was not only an important representative of Latvian modernist art and a member of The Riga Artists Group, but also an art critic and educator. His early style of painting was strongly influenced by the work of the French modernists, but from the 1930s onwards, his focus shifted to landscape painting. Three paintings from Zuzāns collection will be on view at the exhibition.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
🎨 Until 10 August 2025, as part of the cycle The Generation, artist Līga Purmale’s exhibition The Garden of Past Pleasures is on view at the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art. Celebrating the artist’s 50-year artistic career, the exhibition features works starting from the 1970s photorealism period to the most recent works created this year. Sixteen works from the Zuzāns collection are part of the show.
🧡 Learn more about the exhibition here.
