I was selected as one of the artists participating to the 10th edition of Berlin Forecast Berlin. I presented my work-in-progress video performance About. Forecast is a platform dedicated to facilitating, mentoring, and promoting trailblazing creative practices and audacious artistic practitioners. All Forecast projects, including its mentorships and collaborations are carried out by the German non-profit association Skills e. V., which was founded in Berlin in 2014. Since it

My photos were part of the ZEITGEIST group exhibition at İstanbul Anna Laudel Gallery. In Turkey, 2025 was officially declared the “Year of the Family” by the government, a move widely perceived within the queer community as an exclusionary gesture. As a resistance strategy, Nadir Sönmez adopts a subtle defiance through humor. By photographing his parents as they read cult homoerotic queer print magazines, he playfully reimagines the notion of family, gently unsettling its no

My short film Working Class was part of the 20th XPOSED Queer Film Festival in Berlin. The screening was at the cinema Babylon Kreuzberg and was followed by a Q&A. Working Class also was selected as part of the festival’s open air highlights program on July 29 at Freiluftkino Kreuzberg. For more info

A special screening of artists’ film and video works by LGBTQIA+ and womxn artists from Turkey, exploring the shrinking public space of their communities, censorship, and resistance. The event’s name This Society F*cks Me Over takes its name from a quote by the late trans writer, sex worker, activist, and artist Gani Met. When she says “this society fucks me”, the phrase works in two directions at once: it points to the literal sexual economies in which her body is exchanged