Isabella Séville Fürnkäs (D/F)
Born 1988 in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf
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
Soloshows & Performances (P*)
2026
ART SINGAPORE, Singapore, SG
2025
Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT
Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, DE
2024
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE (P*)
Art-O-Rama, Marseille, FR
2023
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE (P*)
Clages, Cologne, DE
Museum Moyland, Cleve, DE
2022
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE
ARCO Madrid, ES
2021
Hua International Berlin, DE
Windhager von Kaenel, Zurich, CH
Kunstverein 701 & Düsseldorf Palermo, DE
2020
Salon ACME Mexico City, MX (P*)
Goeben Berlin, DE
2019
Art Cologne, DE
2018
Kölnischer Kunstverein, DE (P*)
Kunsthalle Vienna, AT (P*)
Goethe Institut 13th Biennale for Contemporary Art Dakar, SN
Osthaus Museum, Hagen, DE
ITALIC Berlin, DE
2017
Pogobar KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, DE (P*)
Clages Gallery, Cologne, DE
2016
Manifesta 1, Zurich, CH (P*)
Raiosha Gallery Tokyo, JP
SSZ Sued, Cologne, DE
2015
CSA Space Vancouver, CA
Group Shows
2026
MISC, Athens, GRC
Kunsthaus NRW, DE
FLUX, Zurich, CH
2025
Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, DE
Kunstmuseum Mülheim, DE
Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE
Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, DE
2024
Grzegorzki Shows, Berlin, DE
TICK TACK, Antwerp, BE
City of Düsseldorf & MAP, Düsseldorf, DE
2023
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, DE
Kunstverein Siegen, DE
The Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, KR
2022
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, DE
Luxembourg Art Week, LU
Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
Art Düsseldorf, DE
P–OST X Constant 1 0 1, Arnheim, NL
2021
Catinca Tabacaru, Sandwich & Goethe Institut Bucharest, RO
Gewölbe, project space of Art Cologne, DE
Berlin Masters, Berlin, DE
K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, DE
2020
Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, DE
KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Auction Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
2019
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
Kunstverein Göttingen, DE
Bärenzwinger, Berlin, DE
Auction Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE
2018
Kunsthalle Vienna, AT
Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, DE
KIT, Düsseldorf, DE
PS120 Berlin, DE
Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, DE
KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Art Geneve with PS120, CH
Hardstrasse Basel Switzerland, CH
MeetFactory Prague, CZ
Milieu, Bern, CH
2017
Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, CN
Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, DE
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, DE
Goethe Institut Paris, FR
Auction Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE
2016
Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, KR
Museum Abteiberg, DE
Simultanhalle Cologne, DE
Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE
Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, DE
2015
Kunsthaus Essen, DE
NADA Art Cologne, DE
Residencies & Awards
2024
CCA Artist-in-Residence Program, ES
2022
Berlin Masters Schliemann Residency, Provence, FR
Stiftung Kunstfonds stipend
2021
Akademie der Künste Berlin scholarship
First prize of the strike a pose K21 Kunstsammlung NRW award
2020
Ministry of Culture and Science NRW scholarship
Reset the Future prize Tbilisi State Academy & Peter Moennig Foundation
2019
Bronner Residency Tel Aviv, IL
Villa Aurora (nominated)
2018
Kunststiftung NRW project grant
Artist residency of the Goethe Institut Dakar, SN
Ars Viva (nominated)
2017
Cité Internationale des Arts residency Paris, FR
Travel grant of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
2016
Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen for media art
Lecturing & Jurys
2023 - 2026
Lecturer at HBK Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Braunschweig, DE
2023
Workshop at Bauhaus-University Weimar, DE
2021
Jury member of the BTBB-Prize at Bauhaus-University Weimar, DE
2020
Workshop at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, CH
Tutorial at the University of Hildesheim, DE
Jury member of the BTBB-Prize at Bauhaus-University Weimar, DE
2017
Jury member of the 63. Internationale Kunstfilmtage Oberhausen, International Competition
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
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, CH
2009 - 2010
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 her works open up to mental spaces in the viewer becomes aware reflecting on the state of being in-between.
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