Rose-Coloured Wind

The Jānis Akuraters Museum (6a Ojāra Vācieša Street, Riga) invites visitors from 2 April to see the exhibition “Rose-Coloured Wind” by the artists’ group of the Riga Luther Congregation, on view until 30 May.

The exhibition will feature various forms of visual art—painting, graphic art, metalwork, glass art, ceramics, and mixed-media works. Participating artists are Laima Akmentiņa, Daiga Aže, Irīda Lazdiņa, Ieva Nagliņa, Zinta Miezaine, Māra Kalnišķe, Dins Kopštāls, Gunta Ploka, Liene Ratnika, Sandra Utāne, and Baiba Ūlande. The exhibition also includes works by the artists Helmūts Āķis and Gundega Zikmane. Both artists have passed away.

The artists’ group of the Riga Luther Congregation has been collaborating with the Jānis Akuraters Museum for more than 20 years, and this time the exhibition is conceived as the artists’ gift to the writer in the year of his 150th anniversary. The exhibition “Rose-Coloured Wind” was inspired by Jānis Akuraters’s collection of poetry, Rose-Coloured Wind, published in 1922. The cover was designed by Sigismunds Vidbergs.

The exhibition’s underlying mood is described by the group’s leader, Dins Kopštāls: “The rose-coloured wind enters quietly—almost imperceptibly. It touches things, surfaces, and thoughts, and suddenly the light begins to move through the space. Like an echo of the Rose-Coloured Wind once created by Jānis Akuraters, it returns in another time and in other forms.

Colour acquires breath. A line becomes a path. Glass captures light, ceramics preserve warmth, paper remembers touch, and quiet signs blossom in the space—signs that need not be explained. They can only be felt.

Here, the wind does not blow; it wanders. It moves between the works, between gazes, between memories. It carries with it something of spring, something of the tenderness of longing, something of the unspoken.

And perhaps it is precisely in this movement—between material and dream, between light and silence—that the rose-coloured wind becomes visible once again. Here, the rose-coloured wind is not merely a title but a state: a gentle movement between past and present, between dream and presence.”

The exhibition opening took place on 2 April at 5:00 p.m. at the Jānis Akuraters Museum.