About

JUNNY CHUN AU-YEUNG (b. 1991) is a Hong Kong–Korean artist, currently based in Coventry, Birmingham, and Tallinn. He graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Visual Arts in 2015, and later completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2022.


With a background in installation, object-sculpture, and video work, CHUN’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in personal experience. Since leaving Hong Kong to study and live abroad, his work has become an evolving reflection on displacement, direction, and the constructed nature of “home.” This transition—both physical and emotional—has shaped his interest in how spaces, objects, and gestures can embody absence, longing, and the search for stability. He is particularly drawn to the instability of belonging, and how that tension can be explored through the material poetics of the everyday. Found materials, altered domestic tools, and dysfunctional assemblages are often reconfigured in his work to create spatial situations where function collapses and orientation becomes uncertain.


Rather than viewing home as a permanent structure or geographic point, CHUN investigates it as a psychological and emotional construct—one shaped as much by memory, distance, and imagination as by physical place. In this sense, the notion of home in his work is fragile, temporary, and constantly under negotiation. His approach questions possession and lack, presence and absence, and the subtle rituals we invent to cope with impermanence.


Process is central to CHUN’s practice. He values experimentation, slow-making, and the evolving dialogue between material, concept, and viewer. For him, the act of making is not simply about production, but about transformation—of both object and self. His work often reflects on loss, ambiguity, and the quiet search for meaning in an unstable world.



Education

2020-2022
Master of Contemporary Art, Estonian Academy of Arts

2013-2015
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University



Solo Exhibition

2025
An Ongoing Rehearsal within a Labyrinth, Copper Leg Art Residency, Vaskjala, Estonia

2023
You’ve Been in My Mind, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

2021
All That I Want Is To Be Yours, Raja Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Don’t Think That I Am Pushing You Away, Vent Space, Tallinn, Estonia


2018
2543, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong



Group Exhibition

2022
I Came Here To Be Alone, I Also Came Here To Be Alone, Tallinn Art Hall,  Tallinn, Estonia

TASE Graduation Show (MA), Tallinn, Estonia

Young Sculptor Award Competition, ARS Kunstilinnak, Tallinn, Estonia


2021
Wet Hearts Of Everyday Thoughts, Tallinn, Estonia

Second Act, Viljandi, Estonia


2020
From Rubbles To Wonders, Grotto Fine Arts, Hong Kong


2019 
Fine Art Asia/ Ink Asia, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 

Pearl And Beyond, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong


2016
First Smash 3, Art Experience Foundation



Residency

2025
Copper Leg Art Residency, Estonia

2022
Maajaam, Estonia



Award

2022
TASE Graduation Show (MA) Young Artist Award, awarded by Estonian Academy of Arts

Contemporary Sculpture Award, awarded by International Sculpture Center

Young Sculptor Award, awarded by Estonian Academy of Arts