Irina Ruppert

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Irina Ruppert (* 1968 in Aktjubinsk , Kazakhstan ) is a photographer and lecturer for artistic documentary photography at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Berlin Technical Art Academy .

life and work

Irina Ruppert completed her diploma in 2002 at the HAW Hamburg in the field of design, with a focus on photography, under Ute Mahler . From 2003 she took photos for well-known magazines and newspapers, including Die Zeit , Du , Stern and Geo . Her work has received international awards and exhibited, among others in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg , at the photo festival in Arles and in the State Art Gallery in Russe . Ruppert has been a member of the independent photo agency laif since 2004.

Irina Ruppert became famous for her photo book Rodina , for which she photographed in Russia and Eastern Europe and which deals with biographical emigration. Her photographic work, Cortorar Gypsies, about Roma people who traditionally live in Romania and Ore. 7139 about seasonal workers in Rhineland-Palatinate received a great response. Works by Ruppert are represented in the Altenburg auction house, in the forum for photography, in the Kominek gallery in Berlin, in the collections of the ZF Art Foundation and the Photoszene Cologne.

Selected solo and group exhibitions (E / G)

  • 2020: Vegetable photograms , Ten Gallery, Mannheim (E)
  • 2017: Ore. 7139 , field exhibition, Dannstadt-Schauernheim (E)
  • 2017: Heidrun , Port 25 - Room for Contemporary Art, Mannheim (G)
  • 2016: Cortorar Gypsies , Forum for Photography, Cologne (E)
  • 2015: Roots 2 , Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen (G)
  • 2015: Soldiers_0008-0129 , Phototriennale Hamburg (E)
  • 2013: Rodina , State Art Gallery Russe, Bulgaria (E)
  • 2013: Rodina , Sélectionné pour le prix Voies off, Arles (G)
  • 2012: Rodina , Kominek Gallery Berlin (E)
  • 2012: Rodina , Goethe Institute Hamburg (E)
  • 2007: Roots 2, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen (E)
  • 2006: Famous , club photo, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (G)
  • 2005: Zwischenraum , Marta Hoepffner Prize, Hofheim am Taunus City Museum (G)
  • 2005: Life , Gallery of Fine Arts Koroska, Slovenia (G)
  • 2004: In the East , Goethe Institute, Galerie Akademija, Vilnius (G)
  • 2003: 57 ° Eurasia , Forum for Photography and Art, Cologne (G)

Awards / grants

  • 2018: VG Bild-Kunst scholarship
  • 2017: Match Box project funding, Mannheim
  • 2016: Schöppingen artist village scholarship
  • 2012: VG Bild-Kunst scholarship
  • 2008: Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation
  • 2006: Scholarship from the ZF Art Foundation Friedrichshafen
  • 2005: Marta Hoepffner Prize recognition
  • 2004: DAAD scholarship
  • 2003: BFF sponsorship award

Catalogs / books

  • Cortorar Gypsies , Forum for Photography, exhibition catalog 2016
  • Eyemazing Editions , Annual Pictorial 2014
  • Darmstadt Days of Photography, catalog 2014
  • Rodina , Peperoni Books 2011
  • Roots 2 , ZF Art Foundation 2006
  • Turkey trip , Piper Verlag 2006, with the author Christian Schüle
  • Life , Catalog Gallery of Fine Arts Koroska, Slovenia 2005
  • Intermediate space , Marta Hoepffner Prize catalog, Hofheim am Taunus City Museum 2005
  • BFF sponsorship award, catalog 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Course Catalog | Department Design | HAW HH. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ team | BTK. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ laif agency for photos and reports. April 1, 2019, accessed on June 24, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Peperoni Books: Rodina. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Daniela Zinser, DER SPIEGEL: In her photo series "Rodina", Irina Ruppert shows pictures from Eastern Europe - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Photographer Irina Ruppert: The home in thoughts. In: The time . September 12, 2011, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  7. ^ Les portraits de Roms de Irina Ruppert. Retrieved June 29, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ Isabel Metzger, DER SPIEGEL: Sinti and Roma: Photo exhibition "Cortorar Gypsies" in Cologne - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Rhein Neckar cultural region: seasonal workers and long-time residents - the Hamburg photographer Irina Ruppert went on photographic research in Dannstadt-Schauernheim in the Palatinate. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  10. ^ Altenburg Photography Auctions. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Irina Ruppert. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Kominek. In: Kominek. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ ZF Art Foundation | Collection | Works by Irina Ruppert. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Photoszene Edition - International Photoszene. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruppert, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photographer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Aktyubinsk , Kazakhstan