22/06/2026
Now on view at the Rothko Museum Rotko muzejs / Rothko Museum: The Other Mind: Roger Ballen. A Retrospective
Roger Ballen has long been one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary photography, whose unsettling, poetic, and deeply psychological work blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction, reality and dream, human and animal, sanity and madness. This retrospective, curated specifically for the Rothko Museum, presents his evolution from stark documentary realism to intricately staged, psychologically charged compositions.
The exhibition’s curator, Aivars Baranovskis, warns: “Ballen’s images are not meant to be understood ‘they are meant to be felt. They provoke, disturb, and linger in the mind. This exhibition invites you to confront your own subconscious, to explore the other mind’ the one we often ignore, but which Ballen fearlessly exposes.”
Supported by Daugavpils City Council and the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia.
Curated by Aivars Baranovskis.
Roger Ballen
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