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I am between artists selected for 2024/2025 season for Kulturakademie Tarabya artist residency. I will be working in tandem with Pascal...

I gave a workshop on art and queer activism to young queer artists in İzmir between 8-19 april 2025. The workshop lasted 10 days and was...

In may 2023, I was in Berlin for the International Forum program of Theatertreffen, Germany’s most established theatre festival. To be...

Humans need humans. Contents Foreword I. What if I can’t do it at all? II. Intentional downgrade after a break III. The win-win principle...

We, the narcissists, felt the need to make a statement due to the increasing number of posts on social media that attempt to decode our...

Video, 6', 2024 Outdoor gay sex culture is traditionally preserved in an anonymous park in İstanbul. A low-resolution night, a camera dancing the choreography of cruising, the formal voice-over of a horny narrator, and bodies that imprint their absence. It is an ethnography of macho lust in the dark, spanning from the local to the European. Text, video, voice-over and editing Nadir Sönmez Music Mert Kocadayı It is produced for the video series project of the Altyazı Cinema As

Simian Gallery So, it was a lovely travel.

Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship was part of Doc Fortnight 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. MoMA’s...

Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship was part of International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025. Desktop images, letters, text...

I am selected as a resident artist for SAHA Studio 8th term between June-December 2024. Designed by SAHA as a program of research,...

Video series, 30', 2024 In these video series produced with the support of SAHA Studio, Sönmez interprets universal themes such as loneliness, career and sexuality through the inner voice of a single gay man in his thirties, with texts accompanying the images he shot during his travels in Ljubljana, Venice, Vienna and Budapest. Video, text, voice-over and editing Nadir Sönmez Voice-over Uğur Arda Başkan Music Mert Kocadayı

My film Wrestlers' Feet has been selected by BUTT magazine for The One Minutes Series 'Fixations'. An overwhelming total of 115 films were submitted. ‘Fixations’ offers 25 minutes of turn-ons submitted from Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. A hot mess of cum rags, a pasta-plated p*ssy, dark rooms, and wedgies.