June Hwajung, born in 1991 in South Korea, is a Vienna-based visual artist whose practice is shaped by his experience as an Asian, non-native speaker and queer artist navigating European cultural contexts. Working across painting, installation, and performance, he explores intimacy, desire, and bodily instability, focusing on how emotions and relationships unfold within private and transitional spaces.

In his earlier paintings, June depicted transparent, intertwined figures with ambiguous boundaries, reflecting the uncertainty and fluidity of human relationships. Set in spaces such as beds, protest sites, and dark rooms, these works capture moments where desire, vulnerability, and emotional intensity collide. Through these scenes, he questions the stability of social ideals and personal identities, drawing attention to the fragile line between connection and alienation.

More recently, June’s work has shifted away from the direct depiction of the body toward what remains in its absence. everyday objects, domestic spaces, and fragile materials marked by use, exhaustion, and adaptation. Rather than representing queerness as a visible identity, his practice approaches it through misaligned temporality, compromised functionality, and states of ongoing adjustment. By tracing how norms, traditions, and power structures are internalized within intimate environments, June’s work reveals the quiet tensions that shape contemporary post-migrant life.

Group Exhibitions

2026
- Rundgang 2024, Atelierhaus Lehárgasse, Vienna (AT)

2025
- Young and Restless, AG18 Gallery, Vienna (AT)

- Blinking Echoes, Korea Kulturzentrum, Vienna (AT)*

- A quiet disappearance, AG18 Gallery, Vienna (AT)

- Innenaußen&dazwischen, Distric4art, Vienna (AT)

- Dating Aliens_Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)

- IM BISS_Library of Civil Disobedience, HIFT, Vienna (AT)

- Sunset Virus, DAS WEISSE HAUS, Vienna (AT)*

- Unperceivable Senses(Dancing in our memories), Kultursommer Wien, Vienna (AT)*

- Freaks, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna (AT)

- Blinking Echoes, Belvedere21, Vienna (AT)*

- Complexity of Ironies;, Prospekthof, Vienna (AT)*

- Trace Unseen, Aquarium, Vienna (AT)

- Threads of Fate, Vinzenz, Vienna (AT)

- Contemporary Figuration:Fragment and confrountations, Synap Design Platform, Vienna (AT)

- Within Black Sky, Schillerplatz 3, Vienna (AT)*

2024
- Ziffer im PDF, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna (AT)

- Making Expansive, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (UK)

- In Chaos Lies Order, A:Warehous, Vienna (AT)

- PFFV x A...kademie of Find Kink, Atelierhaus Lehárgasse, Vienna (AT)

- Klima Biennale Wien_Between A Tree, Nordwestbahnstraße 16, Vienna (AT)*

- Juciy Dinner_Ssam Ssam You, Kurzbauergasse 9, Vienna (AT)*

- Unperceivable Senses(Dancing in our memories), Schillerplatz 3, Vienna (AT)*

- Rundgang 2024, Atelierhaus Lehárgasse, Vienna (AT)

2023
- Other Island, Bräuhausgasse 31, Vienna (AT)

- Blaue Horde3, Nussdorfer strasse 47, Vienna (AT)

- Parallel Vienna, Otto Wagner Areal, Vienna (AT)

- About people, AG18 Gallery, Vienna (AT)

- Intimo, die Requisite, Vienna (AT)

- If you go i wanna go with you, Bräuhausgasse 31, Vienna (AT)

- Kunstfestiva Fragmente, Nussdorfer strasse 47, Vienna (AT)

- A...kademie of Find Kink, Atelierhaus Lehárgasse, Vienna (AT)

- Kitschy Katschy, Cafe Siebenbrunnen, Vienna (AT)

- There is no Sun in this room, Atelierhaus Lehárgasse, Vienna (AT)

*performance

Education

2022 -

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Prof. Daniel Richter, Austria

2010 - 2015

Bachelor, JeonBuk National University, Korean Arts, South Korea