STRATA – Galerie Reinthaler presents concrete and glass works from Ömer Faruk Kaplan's SKINs and Territorial Monuments series

Sun, January 11, 2026, 3:59 p.m. CET

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The Reinthaler Gallery is showing for the first time concrete and glass works from Ömer Faruk Kaplan's work cycles SKINs and Territorial Monuments .

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Ömer Faruk Kaplan – STRATA

The practice of this young artist, who graduated with distinction from the academies in Vienna and Munich, moves between sculpture, installation, and graphic exploration. Starting with training as a wood sculptor, he has developed a working method in which materiality, fragments, and memory play central roles.

What remains when a place disappears – when surfaces on which generations have worn themselves are replaced, disposed of, covered over?”

Kaplan starts precisely there: with the material and metaphorical traces that are inscribed in wood, concrete and glass.

He explores how time, use, and memory are reflected in materials and can be translated into new spatial constellations. His wall objects made of cast concrete, German oak, spruce, or fragile, twisted glass (SKINs) follow a serial logic – repetitively and uniformly placed, yet never identical.

Fig: Ömer Faruk Kaplan, Territorial Monuments, 2025, concrete, acrylic varnish, unique

In detail, traces of manipulation, cracks, and surface resistances are revealed, signs of a vibrant relationship between the work and its environment. As a third-generation immigrant artist in Germany, Kaplan explores questions of belonging, origin, and difference. His materials do not depict these themes illustratively, but rather as sedimented layers of a shared history.

Ömer Faruk Kaplan

Ömer Faruk Kaplan was born in Munich in 1991 and lives and works in Munich and Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 2022 to 2025 (under Prof. Florian Pumhösl), graduating with distinction. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2017 to 2023 (sculpture and graphic arts under Prof. Christian Schwarzwald and Prof. Judith Huemer), graduating with distinction.

Training as a wood sculptor with Herbert Nauderer and Michael von Brentano at the Schools for Wood and Design in Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 2014 to 2017.

Exhibitions (selection)

2026
- Strata, Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna (solo)
2025
- Debutant exhibition, Kunstverein München
- Art Matters 13, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne
- salondergegenwart, Hamburg
- Contact Zones, Artcare Showroom, Vienna
- Half Dry, Half Memory, TROST Space, Graz
- Echo, Ingolstadt Art Association
- “Talents – Masters of the Future”, Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Munich
- Diploma exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (solo)
2024
- Meristeme, Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main
- Artist Statement (invitation) Parallel Vienna, Vienna (solo)
- Art Auction 13, Galerie WESERHALLE, Berlin
- Trying to find the one by seeking and hiding, Galerie B12, Bottrop
- WAS, Gallery Reception Hall, Munich
- DIAGONAL, Art Pavilion, Munich
2023
- In the Salon, Galerie Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg
- DOWN HERE, Kunstarkaden, Munich
- PARALLEL VIENNA – Art Fair, Vienna
- Annual exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
- PARCOURS, Diploma Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (solo)
- PARTICLES, Kunstarkaden, Munich
- GLOW, Kösk, Munich
2022
- TERRITORIES AND TRACES, achtzehnkommazwei, Munich (solo)
- ROOMS AVAILABLE 2022, Hotel Mariandl, Munich
- URBAN Collection, Summer Exhibition
- Eduard Urban, Waidhofen / Ybbs
- IN:CONSISTANCY, KAH in Vienna
- SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, Open House at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2021
- EXIT VIENNA – by Erno Vroonen, BELLEPARAIS and achtzehnkommazwei, Munich
- ART AUSTRIA, Art Fair, Vienna
- PARALLEL VIENNA – Art Fair, Vienna
- Contemporary Art – Municipal Gallery Rosenheim
- IN FLUX – Kösk, Munich

Prizes | Scholarships | Collections etc.

2025
- LfA Förderbank Bayern, Munich, promotes young talent/cultural development
- Prize/Debutante Grant from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art
2024
- UP&COMING Watchlist of upcoming and young artists by PARNASS Magazine
2023
- Funding and calendar selection from LfA Förderbank Bayern, Munich
- World of Art A(u)ktion, Munich
- Academy Auction 2023, Munich
2022
- Included in the URBAN COLLECTION, Vienna / Waidhofen an der Ybbs
2021
- Stage design/installation at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
2019
- Artist in Residence “Almresidency” Ochsenhütte near Marienstein, Bavaria
2016
- Realization of the sculpture “Origin”, Aspen-Colorado site, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Details about the exhibition

“STRATA”

Opening: Thursday, January 22, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, In the presence of the artist.
Duration: January 23 – March 13, 2026.
Open: Tue – Fri 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Sat 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM and by appointment.

Address: Galerie Reinthaler, Getreidemarkt 14, A-1010 Vienna

Web: www.agnesreinthaler.com
Email: office@agnesreinthaler.com
Telephone: +43 699 106 81871

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