33 years of German unity - 33 years of the search for a great "we", a common identity. The exhibition WHO WE ARE. QUESTIONS TO AN IMMIGRANT COUNTRY poses the sceptical question of how this "we" can come into being in a society. Does identity only succeed through demarcation from "the others" or is there a path that leads to a new "we" that really means everyone? With the performance by the Frankfurt artist Naneci Yurdagül, we encounter LORELEY and ask ourselves the question: can a "we" come into being at all when countless different cultures and populations live together in a place where, above all, the private rights of the individual are enshrined in the Basic Law? Who is only her/himself is not even that. Self-reference is not possible without reference to the other. Identity does not exist without the other, the non-identical. On Unity Day, there must also be diversity, the recognition of the foreign and the celebration of the radical differences and contrasts of the various realities of life in the population and beyond. This is possible through solidarity that comes from the love of the stranger within ourselves. 

Through LORELEY, Yurdagül is tentatively transported into this old German mythical figure herself, into a strange, even threatening being who triggers yearning and passionate desire, and yet is herself as lonely and needy as her victims. Loreley, who sits on a rock on the Rhine, close to heaven and close to the abyss - and who perhaps every human being can find again in all her contradictoriness and mysteriousness, in her own inner being.

PERFORMANCE  October 2023 / Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn

A person will be transformed into a sculpture by being covered with everyday objects, art objects and remnants of art production. She will carry these objects with her own body strength until she has no more strength to lift everything. When it becomes too heavy, the sculpture will collapse.

FESTIVAL OPENING  SEPTEMBER 2022 / WHO CARES? Feminist Art Festival Berlin

The Ismaning exhibition "A Made Man" is dedicated to the question of why we are who we are.

"There are hybrid forms today that didn't exist 100 years ago," said museum director Rasmus Kleine. During his and Greulich's speech, a woman kept pacing up and down the museum's courtyard, wearing a blue burqa and quite little else. Her breezy appearance - veiled face, bare legs - was part of a performance by the artist Naneci Yurdagül, who himself later appeared in a slightly grotesque white wedding dress at the hedge maze in front of the museum.

EXHIBITION OPENING PERFORMANCE May 2018

Installative Performances during the opening of the exhibition  by NANECI YURDAGÜL at the gallery Knust Kunz in Munich.

OPENING PERFORMANCES  September 2017

At Potsdamer Platz, a group of roughly 70 performers will occupy the same amount of space as the dimensions of the original ice structure. As with Kaprow’s happening, Pirici’s ephemeral monument will also be a collective moment created through physical effort, in which the increasing exhaustion of the participants will determine the structure’s duration.

Pirici’s reinvention of Fluids addresses both the bodily aspect of happenings and the temporal aspect of sculpture and performance.

HAPPENING  September 2015 / Potsdamer Platz Berlin