BERLIN.- From October 31, 2025, to January 4, 2026, the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin opens its doors to CITYLICIOUS, the 20th edition of the Seen By exhibition series. A collaboration between the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), the show presents 13 emerging artists who explore the complexity, contradictions, and rhythms of city life through photography, video, and installation.

Curated by Annabell Burger and Andreas Prinzing, CITYLICIOUS investigates how urban environments shape both personal identity and collective experience. The exhibition takes the city as its living, breathing subject—a space of diversity, transformation, and tension. Through their works, the young artists invite viewers to look closer at what usually goes unnoticed: the fragments, movements, and stories that make up the pulse of city life.

Berlin, a city long defined by reinvention, serves as both backdrop and inspiration. The exhibition considers how architecture, social systems, and symbolic gestures influence our behavior and sense of belonging. At the same time, it acknowledges the pressures of modern urban existence—gentrification, performance culture, and the growing overlap between physical and digital spaces.

The participating artists—Elena Bonometti, Lea Deutscher, Ana Maria Draghici, Yero Adugna Eticha, Sophia Hallmann, Leonie Hennicke, Lisa Hofmann, Michelle Ilie, HU Jinchi, Julia Kafizova, Jihye Kim, Florine Kirby, and Jana Pressler—offer diverse perspectives. Some transform everyday streets into stages for social reflection, while others highlight exclusion, displacement, and the scarcity of housing. A few approach the city playfully, turning sidewalks and public spaces into sites of artistic intervention.

What unites these varied voices is a shared curiosity about how we move, interact, and imagine within the urban landscape. As the curators note, CITYLICIOUS challenges the notion of the city as a fixed structure, instead presenting it as a dynamic collage—one constantly rewritten by its inhabitants.

With its visually striking and conceptually rich works, the exhibition celebrates the city as both a physical and emotional terrain. It invites audiences to see familiar streets anew, to question what lies beneath the surface, and to recognize that every corner of the city tells a story—one we are all helping to write.