Exhibitions
Info
Jun’s artistic practice focuses on the in-between states of stability and instability, presence and absence. She extracts images and everyday objects from their original contexts and places them within scenes marked by displacement, allowing tension to emerge between intimate experience and structures of looking. Through this process, their inherent ambiguity, irony, and self-reflexive qualities come to the surface.
In her paintings, objects, partial bodies, and spatial structures recur, forming relationships that both contain and constrain. These elements function simultaneously as vessels and as boundaries: they receive emotion while delaying its direction, shifting the focus away from clearly narratable events. The disappearance of specific figures is not a withdrawal from reality, but a turn toward forms of presence that continue to operate through space, order, and material relations.
Her work engages with broader cultural and historical contexts, with particular attention to how gendered identities are constructed and transmitted through symbolic forms. Through her treatment of visual traditions, material details, and spatial organization, she examines how culture, in indirect and internalized ways, shapes positions of looking and understandings of belonging and difference. These processes also reflect the ongoing operation of cultural power within visual experience and everyday perception.
Li Jun
1994 Born in Changsha, China
Now lives and works in Vienna
Educations
Since 2022, studying in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Prof. Daniel Richter's class
2016 BFA, China Academy of Art, China
2012 The Affiliated High School to China Academy of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Pause For Collapses, Gene Gallery, Shanghai (Dual Solo)
2025 Heterotopia / 遊園驚夢, ZÉRUÌ, London
2024 The Case of a Strange Woman, Turn Gallery, New York
2022 Teeth and Script, Art Lab Center, Beijing
2021 Cabinet of Curiosities, Turn Gallery, New York,
Group Exhibitions
2025 Weather of Our Times, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna
2025 The Under-stream, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
2025 Seven Days of Sunday, Turn Gallery, New York
2025 Transit, Zeller van Almsick, Bad Gastein, AT
2025 Z Generation of Third Culture: Interculture Child, Soul Art, Beijing
2025 Beings Out of Place, Petitree Gallery, Shenzhen
2024 In the Still of the Night, Exhibit Studio, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna
2024 These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, Room 57 gallery, New York
2024 Ziffer im PDF, Gallery Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna
2024 Reverie Reset, Gallery the Tigerroom, Munich
2023 HUMDRUM, CCA Andratx, Andratx Mallorca, Spain
2023 DETOUR, Gallery Func, Shanghai
2023 Prelude to the Backflow, BONIAN Space, Beijing
2022 Among Flowers, Turn Gallery, New York
2021 Beautiful Home, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
2018 Animation Art Biennial, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2016 Shanghai Festival "Daytime Dreamers", Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai
2015 MEMECITY Multimedia Art Festival, Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Awards
2024 Grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
(The artist expresses gratitude to The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for its support in 2024–2025.)