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.


CHUN’s practice explores the instability of belonging through the material poetics of everyday objects, found materials, installation, drawing, and photography.


After receiving a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2022, CHUN relocated to the UK—a transition that sparked an ongoing reflection on displacement, direction, and the constructed nature of “home.” Their work asks whether belonging is a path that can be navigated, or a condition of continuous drift.


Process is central to CHUN’s approach; he values dialogue, material experimentation, and conceptual exploration. For him, the act of making mirrors themes of transformation, loss, and the search for meaning. This evolving relationship between artist, material, and viewer creates an open-ended, dynamic engagement with his work.


Rooted in personal experience, CHUN’s practice often questions the idea of home—not merely as a physical space, but as an emotional and psychological construct. His work examines possession and lack, support and isolation, materiality and survival. In doing so, he challenges conventional understandings of home, presenting it as a site of tension, memory, and transformation.


Through reconfigured furniture, dysfunctional assemblages, altered domestic tools, and fragile installations, CHUN constructs spatial-poetic situations where function collapses and orientation becomes uncertain. These material gestures embody a recurring philosophical tension: the longing for arrival, and the impossibility of ever fully arriving.


In recent work, the artist has expanded his exploration of the language of navigation—maps, symbols, and spatial cues—as metaphors for existential uncertainty. His current project, An Ongoing Rehearsal within the Labyrinth, unfolds as an ongoing meditation on the provisional nature of direction, questioning whether the “ideal place” is anything more than a construct of the imagination.



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 Internation Sculpture Center

Young Sculptor Award, awarded by Estonian Academy of Arts