z2o Sara Zanin is pleased to announce that Guglielmo Maggini is a selected artist for “Martinsons Award” at Latvia ceramics biennale, Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, 2025 and was awarded the Honorable Mention and Residency Prize.
Latvia Ceramics Biennale is a key event in contemporary ceramics in the Baltic Sea region. The biennale is organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics in cooperation with the Rothko Museum. The event attracts artists from all over the world and seeks to develop and promote contemporary ceramics in Latvia and the Baltics. The central event of the biennale is Martinsons Award – an international juried exhibition held on the premises of the Rothko Museum as a testament to the current vitality of ceramic art and a tribute to Pēteris Martinsons – the world-renowned Latvian ceramicist.
Following the decision of an international jury, artists from thirty countries have been selected to compete for the prestigious Martinsons Award at the fifth Latvia Ceramics Biennale. The award winners will be chosen during the exhibition at the Rothko Museum this September.
A total of 941 works were submitted for “Martinsons Award 2025”, representing 69 countries worldwide. The international panel of experts has selected 80 artworks representing 30 countries to be featured in the exhibition, including 23 works by Latvian artists.
The jury for the fifth Martinsons Award 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; Weronika Surma (Poland), artist, lecturer at the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, organiser of the International Ceramics Sculpture Triennale Poland ICST.
Info:
Guglielmo Maggini
MARTINSONS AWARD 2025
Daugavpils (Latvia)
5 September 2025 – 1 February 2026
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28 July 2025
