Jūrmala’s exhibition venues offer a diverse programme of art and culture throughout the year. They present both contemporary art exhibitions and displays that highlight the history of the resort town and the stories of notable personalities. The exhibition venues are located in historic wooden buildings, structures built in the second half of the 20th century, and in an example of post-war modernist architecture – Dubulti Art Station. Jūrmala’s museums and galleries regularly host both Latvian and international artists. Together, they form a dynamic cultural space with a broad perspective on artistic processes and the city’s identity.

^{Ieva Krūmiņa. Odesa Without Catherine the Great, 2023–2025}

Jūrmala Museum (Tirgoņu iela 29, Majori)​

• “In Flow” (03.07–13.09.) – an international contemporary art exhibition at the Jūrmala Museum that invites visitors to reflect on invisible processes such as intuition, consciousness, memory, encounters, transformation, and the inner flow of human experience. The exhibition brings together 23 Latvian and international artists from different generations, working across a wide range of media, including painting, graphic art, sculpture, glass and textile art, video, and installation. Inspired by Carl Gustav Jung’s ideas on the collective unconscious and the individual path of spiritual development, the exhibition also explores contemporary questions of mindful presence, human connection, and the ability to perceive the world beyond what can be rationally measured. Rather than offering definitive answers, In Flow encourages visitors to pause, ask questions, and engage with the experience of art.

• The audiovisual space “A Holidaymaker on the Way to Jūrmala” (until 14.02.2027) – an exhibition that invites visitors to experience the emotionally charged journey to the resort town across different eras – from horse-drawn carriages and steamboats to railway travel. Through sound, image and spatial scenography, the exhibition allows visitors to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of a historic journey and, through sensory experience, encounter the long-awaited sea.

Bulduri Exhibition House (Muižas iela 6, Bulduri)

• “From Jūrmala to Ruhnu Island. Painter Voldemārs Caune – 125” (06.05–05.07) – an exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the outstanding Latvian figurative painter Voldemārs Caune, highlighting coastal landscapes, fishermen’s lives and the world of the people living along the Baltic Sea coast in his work. The exhibition presents works from the 1930s to the 1960s – views of Jūrmala’s nature, images of fishermen, landscapes of Ruhnu Island and portraits of its inhabitants. It reveals the artist’s ability to capture coastal everyday life, human character and the mood of the era with psychological nuance. The exhibition also includes the figurative composition “Ancient Music. The Musicians of Alsunga” (1940), which symbolically marks changes in the artist’s life and in the historical context of the time.

• “Latvian Seaside Flowers: The Poetic Landscape of Katrīna Reinovska at the End of the 19th Century” (09.07.–13.09.) – an exhibition dedicated to Bulduri resident Katrīna Reinovska (1845–1923), the first Latvian woman poet whose poems were published as a separate book. Her collection “Latvian Seaside Flowers”, published in 1875, became an important precursor to women’s entry into Latvian literature. The exhibition is conceived as a symbolic “poet’s room”, where the aesthetics of the late 19th century, poetic imagery, proximity to the sea and the legacy of a fishing family invite reflection on what it means to be the first.
• Visitors also have the opportunity to look into the studio and creative world of Jūrmala’s art legend Valdis Bušs (1924–2014), one of the most outstanding Latvian landscape painters of his time.

Aspazija House (Z. Meierovica prospekts 18/20, Dubulti)

• “A Woman’s Companion – the Handbag” (28.05–19.09) – an exhibition at Aspazija House that reveals the handbag as a practical, aesthetic and era-defining companion of women. The display features handbags from the 1880s to the period of the Second World War, made of silk, leather, silver, metal and other materials. The exhibition brings together objects from the collections of 12 Latvian museums and 27 private collections, including handbags that belonged to notable Latvian cultural figures – Elvīra Bramberga, Dace Akmentiņa, Emīlija Bērziņa, Elfrīda Pakule and Anna Brigadere.

Dubulti Art Station (Zigfrīda Meierovica prospekts 4, Dubulti)

• Gļebs Panteļejevs’ exhibition “Monuments” (12.06–02.09) – a solo exhibition by the Latvian sculptor, in which the artist turns to questions of freedom, moral values and human inner responsibility. Gļebs Panteļejevs is one of the most significant figures in Latvian contemporary and monumental sculpture, whose works honour personalities, historical memory and principles important to society. In the exhibition “Monuments”, the artist reflects on the mobility of the soul and the fragility of freedom at a time when a person may become complicit in their own lack of freedom. Panteļejevs’ sculpture is characterised by classical mastery of form, modernist generalisation and the ability to transform monumental themes into a personal, emotionally charged experience.

Jūrmala Culture Space and Environmental Design Centre (Pils iela 1, Dubulti)

• “CHARISMA” (10.04–30.06) – a solo exhibition by painter Jānis Ferdinands Tīdemanis, offering a first opportunity in Jūrmala to encounter one of the most vivid artistic voices in Latvian modernism. At the centre of the exhibition are women, flowers, touches of light and charisma – elements that run through the artist’s works and reveal his distinctive view of beauty and the vitality of life. The exhibition brings together works from the Rietumu Banka art collection, as well as important pieces from the Esterkins family collection and Zuzeum, offering a rare opportunity to experience the diversity and emotional intensity of Tīdemanis’ oeuvre in one place.

Gallery Bastejs (Skultes iela 10, Priedaine)

• Ritums Ivanovs’ exhibition “ON PAPER” and August Kunnapu’s exhibition “Joys of Summer” (from 06.06) – two new exhibitions at Gallery Bastejs, on view from 6 June. Ritums Ivanovs is known in Latvian art for his expressive exploration of the human figure and portrait, while the exhibition “ON PAPER” focuses on works created on paper. The exhibition “Joys of Summer” by Estonian artist August Kunnapu introduces visitors to the artist’s colourful and recognisable visual language through a selection of works inspired by the mood of summer.

“Art Shore. Oasis of Secrets” Exhibition | Dzintari Beach

From 3 July to 6 September, the sculpture and object exhibition “Art Shore. Oasis of Secrets” will be on view at Dzintari Beach near Turaidas Street, featuring works by Roberts Diners, Lilija Dinere, Matiass Jansons, Krzysztof Krzysztof from Poland, Mārtiņš Daksis, Kęstutis Benedikas from Lithuania and Artūrs Bogdanovs; the exhibition will open on 3 July at 4.00 p.m.

Open-Air Exhibition “Dzintari Concert Hall – 90” | Square by Dzintari Concert Hall (Turaidas Street 1) 

Until 31 October, the square by Dzintari Concert Hall hosts the open-air exhibition “Dzintari Concert Hall – 90”, tracing the venue’s development over more than a century – from the entertainment garden of the Edinburgh Kurhaus, with its balls, operettas and variety performances, to a major centre of symphonic music. The exhibition also follows the architectural evolution of the concert hall: the historic hall built in 1936, featuring wall paintings by Ansis Cīrulis, the modernist summer concert hall opened in 1960, and the additions introduced in the 21st century. Historical photographs and documentary materials reveal Dzintari as a place where resort culture, music and architecture have together shaped one of Latvia’s most recognisable cultural landmarks.