Federica Furbelli
Varese Italia, b. 1988
Biography
Federica Furbelli (1988, Varese, Italy) is a visual artist based in Mallorca whose practice explores psychogeography through drift, movement, and the relationship between nature, humanity, and landscape. Her work investigates how walking, sailing, and slow travel become artistic and spiritual acts that resist the immediacy of contemporary life while fostering moments of mindful attention. By relocating her studio to remote and untamed environments, Furbelli embraces nomadism as a way of establishing a profound interdependence with place, challenging rationalism as the sole mode of understanding the world. The sensory environments she creates invite presence, contemplation, and a return to what is essential.
She has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the solo exhibitions Banana Joe at Malpaís (Barcelona, 2025), Atlantic Crossing at Fundación Mapfre (La Laguna, 2023), and A New Error at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2023). Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as 2025_N3 at Piramidón (Barcelona, 2025), Floating Curtains at kulturundgut (Hamburg, 2024), and Underthebridge at Weissraum Design Forum (Innsbruck, 2024).
Furbelli has undertaken artist residencies at Piramidón and Malpaís (Barcelona), Fresco (Madrid), and Konvent0 (Berga). She has also created numerous murals in Spain and internationally, including commissions for NorthWestWalls (Belgium, 2022), Saladina Fest (Mallorca, 2023), Ciudad Mural (Mexico, 2019), and Palma Art Festival (France, 2025).
Her practice has been recognised with several awards, including the First Prize and Gold Medal of the Palacio de Quintanar Landscape Scholarship, First Prize at the XXXI Óscar Domínguez Sculpture and Painting Competition, and First Prize at the XXII Enrique Lite National Painting Award.
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