Inta Ruka Biography 1958 Born in Riga, Latvia 1973 Photo Club, training group with G. Birkmanis, Riga, Latvia 1973 - 1976 Business school of Riga, certificate as sewer 1979 - 1982 Education and collaboration at the “V.E.E.“ studio in Riga under the leadership of Gunãrs Birkmanis 1983 Since then photographic series 'My Country People' 1983 - 1984 Member of the photographer-group “Riga” 1985 Member of the group “A”, Riga since then 1984 - 1988 Member of the photo-studio “Ogre“, Ogre, Latvia 1986 - 1988 Work as freelance photographer in Vladivostok, UdSSR 1990 Member of the Designer Association of Latvia since then 1994 Workshop with E. Mark (U.S.A.) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden 1998 Grant of the 'Hasselblad Foundation' 1999 'Spídola-Award' of the Latvian Culture Foundation 2000 Starts of the photographic series 'People i happened to meet' 2002 Scholarship at the Villa Walberta, Feldafing, Germany 2004 Latvian 'Price of the Year' for the exhibition with Egon Spuris in the State Art Museum in Riga 2004 Starts of the photographic series 'Amalias Street 5' The artist lives and works in Riga Selected Exhibitions2006 In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century (among others with Wolfgang Tillmanns, Boris Mikhailov et al.), Barbican Art Gallery, London 2006 People i Happened to Meet, Photography Center Istanbul (solo) 2005 Generations, The Historical Museum of Alytus (LIT) 2005 Die Sammlung i: Das Porträt 1970-2000, Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 2005 Dogs, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg 2005 Generations: Changing Photography, Alytus (LIT) 2005 Inta Ruka 'Portraits', Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (solo) 2004 Passage d’Europe - Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France (group) 2003 - 2004 Modern Latvian Art and Photograph - Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia (group) 2003 Inta Ruka and Egons Spuris - State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia (group) 2003 Dokument 03 – Bildens Hus, Fotomuseet, Sundvall, Sweden (group) 2003 Inta Ruka and Egon Spuris, State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia (group) 2003 Königliche Bibliothek, Stockholm (solo) 2003 Portraits, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (cat.) (solo) 2003 Portraits, PAK, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Kunstverein Glückstadt (solo) 2003 Inta Ruka – fotografiju paroda, Prospekto Photo Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania (solo) 2002 Inta Ruka, Villa Ichon, Bremen (solo) 2002 Pilseta: Stasti par Rigu/City. Stories about Riga, Riga, Latvia (group) 2002 Latvian artists exhibition – M. Zilinska Art Gallery, Kaunas, Latvia (group) 2001 Metropolis. Riga – stock market, Riga, Latvia (group) 2001 Latvia. Changing and Unchanging Reality, Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin (solo) 2001 People I happened to meet, Pomerania Dukes castle South gallery, Szczecin, Poland (solo) 2000 My Country People, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Riga, Latvia (solo) 2000 Inta Ruka and Andrejs Grants – Strasburg, France (group) 2000 Latvia. Changing and Unchanging Reality – with Andrejs Grants, Gallery of the Latvian Artists Union, Riga, Latvia (group) 2000 Utopia – Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway (group) 2000 Parallels – Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland (group) 1997 Inta Ruka, Photostudio 1, Boston, U.S.A. (solo) 1995 My Country People, Bratislava, Slovakia (solo) 1995 Inta Ruka, Amiens, France (solo) 1994 My Country People, Centre Photographique de Normandie, Rouen, France (solo) 1994 My Country People, Museum of Regional Studies and Art, Madona, Latvia (solo) 1992 My Country People, at 'Pârmijas - Aktuelle Kunst aus Riga', Kultur- und Begegnungszentrum Achtermannstrasse (C.U.B.A.), Münster,Germany (cat.) (solo) 1991 My Country People, Karlshamn, Sweden (solo) 1986 Inta Ruka, Exhibition Hall 'Kiek in de Koek', Tallinn, Estonia (solo) Literature2003 Inta Ruka, Egons Spuris. Fotografijas / Photographies, Cat.: Staatl. Kunstmuseum Riga, Riga 2003. 2003 Harder, Matthias: Blicke in die lettische Seele, in: Folder for the exhibition at the Baukunst Galerie Cologne and at PAK, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Kunstverein Glückstadt, Cologne 2003. 2003 Kaufhold, Enno: Weltbilder vom Lande. Inta Ruka und ihre Lettland- Porträts, in: Photonews, Nr. 3, March 2003, 15. Jahrgang, p. 6-7. 2001 Kaufhold, Enno: Mit geneigtem Blick, in: FAZ, Nr. 92, 20 April 2001, Berliner Seiten, S. 6. 1999 Inta Ruka, Mani lauku ïaudis/Inta Ruka, My Country People/Inta Ruka, La mia gente di campagna, Cat. published due to the participation of the 48th Venice Biennale, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts u.a. (Hrsg.), Riga 1999. 1999 Bankovskis, Pçteris: People at the margin, in: Inta Ruka, Mani lauku ïaudis/Inta Ruka, My Country People/Inta Ruka, La mia gente di campagna, Riga 1999, p. 8-11. 1999 Demakova, Helçna, Let’s have a picture taken. When you’re dead I’ll have something to look at“, in: Inta Ruka, Mani lauku ïaudis/Inta Ruka, My Country People/Inta Ruka, La mia gente di campagna, Riga 1999, p. 18-25. 1999 Stories, Storytellers, Inta Ruka, Anita Zabilevska, Ojars Petersons, Republic of Latvia, in: Ausst.-Kat.: 48. Internationalen Ausstellung Zeitgenössischer Kunst, Biennale von Venedig 1999. 1999 Esmu labaka fotografe starp apkopejam, interview with Inta Ruka, in: Santa, 1999/No. 5, p. 62-66. 1998 There is nothing more interesting than a person, interview of L. Slava with Inta Ruka, in: Studija, quarterly magazine of fine arts, Riga, 1998, No. 3, p. 24-31. 1995 Raphael, Michel, in: Images de Lettonie, Cat.: Galerie Claire M. Laurin, La Fontaine Obscure, Aix-en-Provence 1995. 1995 My people from the countryside, Text von Inta Ruka, in: The Memory of Images. Baltic Photo Art Today, Cat.: Kiel 1993. 1993 Linnap, Peter: Anthropologist Inta Ruka, in: Borderlands, Photography of the Baltic States, Ausst.-Kat.: Street Level Gallery, Glasgow 1993. 1992 Straka, Barbara: Blick zurück nach vorn. Ein baltisches Memorial (Über die Entwicklung der baltischen Kunstphotographie), in: Merian, September, p. 88-95. 1991 Demakova, Helena: Grupa A, in: Maksla. Almanac of Fine Arts (Riga/Latvia), 1991/No. 4, p. 56-63. 1991 Changing Reality: Recent Soviet Photography, Starwood Publishing in association with The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Virginia/USA 1991. 1991 Comrades & Cameras: Photographs from Latvia and Other Soviet Republics, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara/USA 1991. 1991 Ingelevics, V.: Latvian Photographers in the Age of Glasnost, Cat.: Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto 1991. 1990 Mikhailowsky, W.: Grupa A, in: Avots. Monthly Magazine, Riga 1990, No. 10, p. 32-43. 1990 Querrin, M.: Ohne Titel, in: Le Monde (Paris), 1990, No. 14. 1989 Annäherung an die Sowjetunion: Ein fotografischer Dialog/Photographical Acquaints with the USSR: A Photographical Dialogue, Cat.: Fachhochschule Hannover, Hannover 1989. 1986 Neiburga, A.: Inta Ruka – cela sakuma, in: Literatura un Maksla, 23 May 1986.