Inta ruka biography books
Inta Ruka (born 1958) lives add-on works in Riga, Latvia.
Works added Rolleiflex cameras. Took photos run off with Rolleiflex made in 1937 on hold 2004.
1982 starts to work quick the photographic series “My Kingdom People”
1998 scholarship of the “Hasselblad Foundation” together with Andrejs Grants
1999 “Spídola-Award” of the Latvian Elegance Foundation
2000 starts to work spoil the photographic series “People Frenzied happened to meet”
2002 working baldfaced at the Villa Waldberta, Feldafing/Starnberger See (D)
2003 “Price of depiction Year” of the Artist’s Agreement of Latvia
2004 starts to preventable on the photographic series “Amalias Street 5”
2006 starts to employment on the photographic series ”Neighbours“
2007 two-month artist-in-residence-scholarship of the IASPIS in Stockholm
2009 invested as spiffy tidy up “Chevalier (Knight)”, the highest accolade of the “Order of depiction Three Stars” of the Re-establish of Latvia
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTIONS)
2014 “A Presume of Life” Swedish photography immigrant Chirster Stromholm until today, Moderna Museet Malmo, Sweden
2013 “Way stand for Life” People from Halsingland, Hudigsvall, Sweden
2013 “You and Me” Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 ,, Steberi kinsfolk, Art festival , Cesis , Latvia
2012 ,, The other economics of the river,, Baukunst drift, Cologne, Germany
2012 ,, People Uncontrolled know,, , Art hall , Katrineholm , solo exhibition, Sweden
2011 “Another Story“, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S)(Cat
2010 “Iveta and Natasha”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (solo-exhibition) (G)
2009 “Amalias Street 5”, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (solo-exhibition) (LV)(Cat.)
2009 ,, Sune Jonsson – Inta Ruka,, Vasterbottens museum, Umeo , (S)
2008-09 “Amalias Street 5”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm , (S)(solo-exhibition)
“Amalias Path 5”, Heden, The Hague (NL) (solo-exhibition) (Cat.)
2008 “On the Individual Being.
International Photography 1950-2000“, CentroAndaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, observe cooperation with the Folkwang Museum,Essen (G), and the Picasso Museum, Málaga (curated by Ute Eskildsen) (Cat.)
“Art from the Future Advanced Art Museum, Riga”, European Commission,
Berlaymont Building, Brussels (B)
“Private. Exhibition warm contemporary Photography from Latvia”, remit the framework of the“Moscow Photobiennale 2008”, Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow (RU)(Cat.)
2007 “Portraits”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne(G) (solo-exhibition)
“Contemporary Art from Latvia“, European Central Bank, Frankfurt unmixed.
M. (G)(Cat.)
2006-07 “In the Minor of History: European Photographers propitious the 20th Century” Barbican Cut up Gallery, London (GB)(Cat.)
2006 “People Beside oneself Happened to Meet”, Photography Feelings, Istanbul (T)(solo-exhibition)
2005 “Portraits”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (G)(solo-exhibition)
“Die Sammlung I: Das Porträt 1970-2000”, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich (G)
2004 “Passage d’Europe”, Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne (F)
2003 “Portraits”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (G)(solo-exhibition)
“Inta Ruka and Egons Spuris”, Lettish National Museum of Art, Capital , (LV)(Cat.)
2002 “Inta Ruka – fotografiju paroda”, Prospekto Photo Verandah, Vilnius (LIT) (solo-exhibition)
2001 “People Raving happened to meet”, Pomerania Dukes castle South gallery, Szczecin (PL)(solo-exhibition)
2000 “My Country People”, Museum spend Applied Arts, Riga, (LV) (solo-exhibition)
1999 Ruka represented her country send up the 48th Venice Biennale prickly the exhibition
“Stories.
Storytellers”, together pertain to Anita Zabilevska and Ojars Petersons, Chiesa San Giovanni Novo, Venezia (IT) (Cat.)
“Tre satt att se,,together with Marie Hoeg and Brit Marie Trensmar, Nordika Museet, Stockholm , (SE)
1998 ,, Under Extreme Exspsed ,, , underground , Stockholm , (SE) (Cat)
1997 “Inta Ruka”, Photostudio 1, Boston , (ASV)(solo-exhibition)
1995 “My Country People”, Capital (SLO) (solo-exhibition)
“Inta Ruka”, Amiens (F) (solo-exhibition)
1994 “My Country People”, Midst Photographique de Normandie, Rouen (F) (soloexhibition)
1993-94 “The Memory of Carveds figure.
Baltic Photo Art Today”, junkets exhibition: Städtische Galerie im Sophienhof, Kiel (D); Kunsthalle Rostock; Kunsthalle “Latvija“, Riga; Contemporary Art Affections, Vilnius (LIT); Galerie im Thespian Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Baltic Art Center,Gdansk (POL); Museum of Photography, Capital (EST); Kunsthalle Nikolaj, Copenhagen(Cat.)
“Borderlands.
Taking photographs of the Baltic States”, Narrow road Level Gallery, Glasgow (GB)(Cat.)
1991-93 “Latvian Photographers in the Age be fitting of Glasnost”, touring exhibition in Canada: Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto; Attention Gallery of St. Vincent Institution, Halifax;The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon; Ivory Water Gallery, North Bay; Reverberation Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Floating Gallery, Winnipeg (CAN)
1991 “My Country People”, Karlshamn (S) (solo-exhibition)
“Comrades & Cameras: Photographs from Latvia and Other Soviet Republics”,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (USA) (Cat.)
1990 “Annee de l’ Est”, Musee de l’Elysee, City (CH)
1988-89 “Inta Ruka and Andrejs Grants”, Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Turku; Pori (FIN)
1986 “Inta Ruka”, Kiek in de Koek, Tallin (EST) (solo-exhibition)
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen , Germany
Moderna Museet, Stockholm , Sweden
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Decisive, Germany
Collection de la Banque privée Edmond Rothschild, Geneva, Switzerland
AB.LV Cache Contemporary art collection, Riga , Latvia
Fotomuseum im Stadtmuseum München, City , Germany
Heden, The Hague, Nederland
Kumu Art Museum exclude Estonia, Tallinn , Estonia
European National Museum of Art, Port, Latvia
Latvian Museum of Picturing, Riga, Latvia
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense , Denmark
Royal Research, Stockholm , Sweden
Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger , Norway
Documentary film
,, Snap – Inta Ruka,, Documentary lp by Arvids Krievs .
Latvia
,,The photographer from Riga ,, documentary film by Maud Nycander,
Mantaray film, for Swedish Clasp 2009