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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

I presented my video-lecture-performance Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Ac tivism and led a two-day creative writing workshop at Odeon Pergamon in March 2026. More info about Odeon Pergamon https://www.odeonpergamon.com/

I attended Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival for the screening of Seen Unseen: An Anthology of Auto(Censorship) which includes my video Cruising.

The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is a yearly six-day event taking place in Mid-November, organizer is the Filmladen Kassel e.V. The film program, which includes short and feature documentary films and artistic-experimental productions is the main part of the festival. In November 2025, I attended Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival for the screening of Seen Unseen: An Anthology of Auto(Censorship) which includes my video Cruising.

Middle East Now is a festival of cinema, documentaries, visual arts, photography, contemporary culture, food and events from the Middle East and North Africa: a week of screenings, exhibitions and events engaging the city of Florence. In October 2025, I attended Florence Middle East Now Film Festival for the screening of Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship which includes my video Cruising.

I presented my video-performance Progressive at Berlin Hive Film Days in september 2025. This performance brings together videos, spoken texts, a lecture and an installation. The videos reimagine homoeroticism by valorizing the everyday man. The texts reflect on how singleness is lived in our societies and unsettle the hierarchy between romantic partners and friends. The lecture unpacks the research behind the works and considers the potential of queer activism within video

I was selected for Performing Exiles Festival Summer School, a t wo-week study programme with workshops and seminars for 20 international...

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...

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,...

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.

Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Activism was part of the 2024 Ljubljana Mladi Levi Festival. More info at the link...

My video Cruising was selected for Utrecht Pride BAK Queer Film Program in June 2024, curated by Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg. The queer...

I presented my lecture performance Diyarbakır.Tourism.Romanticism.Ac tivism at Lala Queer House of Underground Arts in Athens. November...

I was selected for Berliner Festspiele's Theatertreffen International Forum in 2023. The International Forum is a platform for global...

I was selected for Trame, a three-month artist residency program at Paris Cité Internationale des Arts, in 2021. In the end of my residency, I staged a reading of Les Fils des Heterosexuals, my first theatre play in French language, with Christophe Pellet and Eric Bernard. TRAME is a residency program launched in 2019, aimed at French-speaking artists from all over the world and from all disciplines (visual arts, cinema, performing arts, writing, music) who wish to develop a

Ama was one of the four live performances selected for 2021 Dresden Fast Forward European Festival For Young Stage Directors in Germany....