Ömer Faruk Kaplan

Ömer Faruk Kaplan (*1991 Munich)

lives and works in Vienna and Munich.

He studied sculpture at the School for Wood and Design in Garmisch Partenkirchen with Michael von Brentano and Herbert Nauderer. In 2013 he was artist in residence at the Goethe-Institut, Lyon. Most recently he won the “Almresidency” in Marienstein. Since 2017 he studies sculpture and art with extended/painted space, object/sculpture/action in public space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His important exhibitions include “Symbiosis” at Galerie Die Schöne, Vienna, the exhibitions “In Limbo” and “In Flux” at Kösk, Munich, “Kunst aktuell” at Städtische Galerie Rosenheim, “Exit Wien” at Galerie Belleparais, Munich and the group exhibition “Wurzelspitzen” in Seeshaupt. At the Eksperimenta Triennale in Tallinn he was represented in the German Pavilion. His work “Origin” is on permanent display at the Aspen-Colorado facility in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. As winner of the tender of the district of Upper Bavaria, he realized 22 coats of arms for the government of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

In his works at KAH, Ömer Faruk Kaplan emphatically emphasizes the philosophical being of space and force by fixing their phenomenological physicality. Colored plaster bearing the traces of the sculptural production process translates this approach into the – ostensibly – painterly. The result is an oscillating tension between image and object, overcoming the stasis of the material in space and time via the dynamics and staggering of the forms. The picture flows. The object is.