Ronja Falkenbach, born in 1989, is a photographer living in Berlin. She studied in Bielefeld, Jerusalem and Seoul. Influenced by different cultures and realities of life, she deals with questions of identity and social contexts. Her works often reflect an intensive examination of the nature of portrait photography and she questions photography as a medium that not only depicts reality, but also creates and influences it. Her Raver series was nominated for the August Sander Prize 2024 and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Raver
2023 - fortlaufend
10x inkjet prints on fluorescent acrylic, 66 x 88cm
In the morning, when everything awakens, they are drawn to the next location. Some, who have already been out for several days, want to return to a place of retreat after reaching the height of physical ecstasy. Falkenbach's work emerges at the center of this raw, unfiltered essence of the morning in Berlin's club scene.
On Sundays, when the partygoers leave the clubs, she uses the slowness of analog technology to portray the silence after the bass has faded, capturing her desire to depict emotional transformation in the contrast between the excess of the night and the sober reality of the dawning day.
She deliberately focuses her gaze on a feeling between exhaustion, melancholy, and euphoria, creating an expression through state, body, and sobriety that keeps us, the viewers, in this transcendental moment. On display are a total of ten photographs from a currently ongoing series.
