From February 13 until May 10 Zuzeum Art Museum will present the exhibition Collections, featuring 200 artworks from the Zuzāns Collection. In the exhibition 140 artists are represented, as well as porcelain factories and cartographers.

This exhibition approaches the act of collecting as an extension of artistic thinking bringing together works through intuition and association. Selected from across the collection, the artworks are arranged into collections that follow no fixed system, but instead draw connections through form, color, gesture, or mood. Some connections are immediate and visible, others more subtle or suggestive. What unfolds is an archipelago of collections, a landscape through which to move with attention and curiosity, an invitation to discover what draws us in, and why.

Collections are shaped by the simple yet potent act of bringing things together. It’s an innate human gesture found in museums and in memory boxes, in institutions and in childhood bedrooms. Whether of paintings, porcelain, or postcards, a collection reflects on who we are and lets us remember where we come from. Spanning nearly 35,000 works, the Zuzāns Collection is a living record of Latvian art and a portrait of collecting as a cultural and personal act, a reflection of the creative effort of countless individuals.