Sojung Jun is a South Korean artist whose films, installations and research-based works explore the relationships between history, memory, language and political boundaries. Through a practice that moves between documentary, fiction and poetic speculation, she examines how individual experiences become entangled with larger social and historical forces, creating works that challenge linear understandings of time and place.

Born in Busan and based in Seoul, Jun studied sculpture before expanding her practice through moving image, writing and installation. Her work frequently focuses on people and places situated at the edges of dominant narratives, drawing attention to overlooked voices, fragmented histories and the invisible structures that shape everyday life. Combining interviews, archival research, performance and storytelling, she creates layered works that weave together personal memories and collective experiences, often exploring how political realities are lived through the body and transmitted across generations.

In 2021, Jun collaborated with CIRCA on Green Screen, a major public commission presented in partnership with the Seoul Museum of Art and the Korean Cultural Centre UK. Broadcast across public screens in London, Seoul and Tokyo, the project explored the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as both a site of division and an unexpected ecological sanctuary. Filmed along the border separating North and South Korea, Green Screen proposed a dreamlike vision of coexistence and reunification, drawing inspiration from Korean art history to imagine futures beyond geopolitical conflict. Accompanying the commission was a presentation of Jun’s landmark work Early Arrival of Future, a musical collaboration between North and South Korean pianists that reflected on the possibility of reconciliation through artistic exchange.

Widely recognised as one of the leading voices in contemporary Korean art, Jun is the recipient of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang, awarded to some of Korea’s most promising artists. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is celebrated for its ability to connect intimate human experiences with broader questions of history, ideology and collective memory.

Through a practice grounded in empathy, imagination and careful observation, Sojung Jun creates spaces where past and future, reality and possibility, can briefly coexist, inviting audiences to reconsider the boundaries that define both places and people.