Isabella Fürnkäs (*1988, Tokyo, Japan) is an artist who works in a variety of media. The body of work involves equal shares of video, multi-media
installation, performance and drawing. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Keren Cytter and Andreas Gursky, where she finished as Meisterschülerin in 2017. In addition, she was a guest student at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Hito Steyerl. Previously, she studied art history and philosophy at the Universität zu Köln, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, as well as fine arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien. She is the recipient of the CCA Artist-in-Residence Program in 2024 and the Berlin Masters Schliemann Residency in 2022. Furthermore, she is a scholar of the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the winner of the first prize of the strike a pose K21 Kunstsammlung NRW award in 2021. She has participated in numerous residency programs such as the Bronner Residency Tel Aviv (2019); the artist residency of the Goethe Institut Dakar (2018); and received a travel grant from the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (2017). In 2016 she received the Förderpreis des Landes NRW, as well as the Paris Cité Internationale des Arts Paris residency. Since 2023 she is a lecturer at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Braunschweig.