What does it mean to be erased, not just from history, but from your own body? With EX YOU, Bosnian artist Sejla Kameric brings these urgent questions to Fotografiska Berlin, launching an exhibition that resists passive observation. Opening April 25 and running through August 17, 2025, EX YOU confronts the emotional burden of imposed identity while carving out a space for defiance, reclamation, and transformation.
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Kamerić, born in former Yugoslavia, is no stranger to navigating identity in fractured environments. Her work, often rooted in her personal experience of war, displacement, and gendered marginalization, interrogates the structures that try to define us before we can define ourselves. With EX YOU, she distills decades of personal and collective trauma into a series of raw, intimate installations and photographs that refuse to look away. Kameric offers the exhibition as an act of reclamation, a place where the question “Who were you before the world labeled you?” is not rhetorical but a call to action. Within this space, EX YOU becomes both a personal archive and a public reckoning.
Throughout Fotografiska’s galleries, images and immersive installations blur the line between past and present, individual and collective. Visitors are prompted to respond to the phrase, “I am EX YOU because…”, turning the show into a dialogue between artist and audience. Here, reflection isn’t optional, it’s built into the very framework of the exhibition.
But EX YOU does not stay confined within museum walls. The project extends into public programming with artist talks, panels on activism, and interactive community experiences that encourage participation across platforms. EX YOU doesn’t offer closure, but it offers space, space to pause, to question, and to begin again.
