Isabella Séville Fürnkäs (D/F)

Born 1988 in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf

studio@isabellafuernkaes.com 💌

Public collections

Museum Abteiberg Collection, DE
Collection of Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, DE
The Ulsan Art Museum South Korea, KR
Burger Collection Zurich/Hong Kong, CH/CN
Kunstsammlung der Provinzial Rheinland, DE
Collection of the Kunsthaus NRW, DE
Artothek des Landes NRW, DE
Collection of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, DE
Philara Collection Düsseldorf, DE
Private collection of Karla Zerressen, DE
Private collection of Julia Stoschek, DE

Solo Exhibitions & Performances (P*)

ART SINGAPORE, SGP (2026); Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT (2025); Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, DE (2025); Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE (P*) (2024); Art-O-Rama, Marseille, FR (2024); Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE (P*) (2023); Museum Moyland, Cleve, DE (2023); Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE (2022); ARCO Madrid, ES (2022); Hua International Berlin, DE (2021); Windhager von Kaenel, Zurich, CH (2021); Kunstverein 701 & Düsseldorf Palermo, DE (2021); Salon ACME Mexico City, MX (P*) (2020); Goeben Berlin, DE (2020); Art Cologne, DE (2019); Kölnischer Kunstverein, DE (P*) (2018); Kunsthalle Vienna, AT (P*) (2018); Goethe Institut 13th Biennale for Contemporary Art Dakar, SN (2018); Osthaus Museum, Hagen, DE (2018); ITALIC Berlin, DE (2018); Pogobar KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, DE (P*) (2017); Clages Gallery, Cologne, DE (2017); Manifesta 11 Zurich, CH (P*) (2016); Raiosha Gallery Tokyo, JP (2016); SSZ Sued, Cologne, DE (2016); CSA Space Vancouver, CA (2015)

Group Exhibitions

MISC Gallery, Athens, GRC (2026); FLUX, Zurich, CH (2026); Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, DE (2025); Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, DE (2025); Kunstmuseum Mühlheim, DE (2025); Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE (2025); Grzegorzki Shows, Berlin, DE (2024); TICK TACK, Antwerp, BE (2024); City of Düsseldorf & MAP, Düsseldorf, DE (2024); Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, DE (2023); Kunstverein Siegen, DE (2023); The Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, KR (2023); Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, DE (2022); Luxembourg Art Week, LU (2022); Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE (2022); Art Düsseldorf, DE (2022); P–OST X Constant 1 0 1, Arnheim, NL (2022); Catinca Tabacaru, Sandwich & Goethe Institut Bucharest, RO (2021); Gewölbe, project space of Art Cologne, DE (2021); Berlin Masters, Berlin, DE (2021); K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, DE (2021); Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, DE (2020); Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, DE (2020); KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE (2020); Auction Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE (2020); Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE (2019); Kunstverein Göttingen, DE (2019); Bärenzwinger, Berlin, DE (2019); Auction Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE (2019); Kunsthalle Vienna, AT (2018); Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, DE (2018); KIT, Düsseldorf, DE (2018); PS120 Berlin, DE (2018); Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, DE (2018); KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE (2018); Art Geneve with PS120, CH (2018); Hardstrasse Basel Switzerland, CH (2018); MeetFactory Prague, CZ (2018); Milieu, Bern, CH (2018); Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, CN (2017); Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, DE (2017); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, DE (2017); Goethe Institut Paris, FR (2017); Auction Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE (2017); Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, KR (2016); Museum Abteiberg, DE (2016); Simultanhalle Cologne, DE (2016); Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE (2016); Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE (2016); Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, DE (2016); Kunsthaus Essen, DE (2015); NADA Art Cologne, DE (2015)

Awards & Residencies

CCA Artist-in-Residence Program, ES (2024); Berlin Masters Schliemann Residency, Provence, FR (2022); Stiftung Kunstfonds stipend (2022); Akademie der Künste Berlin scholarship (2021); First prize of the strike a pose K21 Kunstsammlung NRW award (2021); Ministry of Culture and Science NRW scholarship (2020); Reset the Future prize Tbilisi State Academy & Peter Moennig Foundation (2020); Bronner Residency Tel Aviv, IL (2019); Villa Aurora (nominated, 2019); Kunststiftung NRW project grant (2018); Artist residency of the Goethe Institut Dakar, SN (2018); Ars Viva (nominated, 2018); Cité Internationale des Arts residency Paris, FR (2017); Travel grant of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (2017); Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen for media art (2016)

Lecturing & Tutoring

Lecturer at HBK Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Braunschweig, DE (2023-2026); Workshop at Bauhaus-University Weimar (2023); Jury member of the BTBB-Prize at Bauhaus-University Weimar (2021); Workshop at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (2020); Tutorial at the University of Hildesheim (2020); Jury member of the BTBB-Prize at Bauhaus-University Weimar (2020); Jury member of the 63. Internationale Kunstfilmtage Oberhausen, International Competition (2017)

Education

2017 - 2018
Diploma of Fine Arts (MFA) & Meisterschülerin of Prof. Andreas Gursky, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE

2015 - 2016
Universität der Künste Berlin, DE, Prof. Hito Steyerl

2011 - 2017
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE, Prof. Andreas Gursky and Prof. Keren Cytter

2010 - 2011
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, AT, Prof. Gunter Damisch

2009 - 2010 
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, CH

2008 - 2009
Art History and Philosophy, Universität zu Köln, DE

Infotext

Isabella Séville Fürnkäs (*1988 in Tokyo) is a French-German artist who works in a variety of media. The body of work involves equal shares of video, multi-media installation, performance and drawing. In her multi-layered oeuvre she addresses questions of physical and spatial intimacy, the influence of digitalization on interpersonal relationships, and the transformation of social communication patterns. Fürnkäs creates contextual shifts that echo our own vulnerabilities. In the context of her works, inner images are transformed into a repertoire of media-reflexive actions via performative, installative and time-based techniques. Experimental by nature her works involve a subtle comparison of the individual and its society, creating situations of imaginative (re-)creation. By using a wide range of materials such as glass, epoxy-coated cloth, fluids, fabrics or pottery in combination with audio, video and performance, her works open up to potential mental spheres beyond the familiar, in the unexpected state of being in-between.

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