At the Latvian Jewish Museum

The main theme of this virtual exhibition is an individual’s behaviour in the face of the tragedy unfolding around them. As such, Latvian artist Aleksandra Beļcova is exhibiting her work as part of the ‘Art and the Holocaust: Reflections for a Common Future’ project. Her drawings included in the ‘Riga Ghetto Series’ and produced after the war and until the artist’s death in 1981 were kept in her home by her daughter Tatjana Suta. When she died in 2004, the flat was converted into a museum. The virtual exhibition was created by the museum in cooperation with the Latvian National Art Museum. All the works in this series are presented in four thematic sections: ‘Jews in the streets of Riga and in the ghetto’, ‘Imagining the unthinkable: scenes of murder’, ‘Mother in mourning’, ‘Self-portrait – Requiem for tragedy’. The exhibition is rounded off with a story about the Riga ghetto and the artist Aleksandra Beļcova.

The Riga Ghetto in the Drawings of Aleksandra Beļcova – Muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”