Painting  (updating...)







“Tangible Memory”, Art Central, Hong Kong, 2022



“Repair”, Art Central, Hong Kong, 2022



“Car Park”, Art Central, Hong Kong, 2022



“Graveyard”, Sohohouse, Hong Kong, 2022



“Relax”, Sohohouse, Hong Kong, 2022

Profile






Ka Chun Chung (Ken)
kenchungkachun@gmail.com
@hkkckc

Ka Chun Chung (b. 1986, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong/ London based artist whose practice explores how objects perform and express through material interplay. His work investigates the entangled relationships among humans, objects, and space, with a focus on memory and anxiety.

Using mundane materials such as hook and loop strips, motors, and abandoned objects, he creates systems of friction and sound to evoke affective resonance and the body’s presence in absence. Through sculptural and kinetic assemblages, Chung examines how objects act not as passive artefacts but as witnesses, actors, and carriers of lived experience, revealing affective attunement. His installations explore contingency within networks of interdependent objects and distributed agencies, drawing attention to the shifting and withdrawn nature of relations.

Chung currently graduated from an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. He previously studied in Bologna as an exchange student and lived in Berlin for a year, where he focused on expanded painting. Since completing his BA (Hons) in Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, he has worked as a freelance graphic designer. His work has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Berlin, Athens, and London.

Education
Goldsmiths, University of London
MFA Fine Art
2025

Hong Kong Baptist University
BA Visual Arts
2011

Exhibitions
Solo Shows

(upcoming) Object Performance,
Hong Kong
2026

Doubtful Memory
Anita Chan Lai-Ling Gallery,
Hong Kong
2021

Trace of Dissolution
Ori Berlin,
Germany
2016

Group Shows

Conviction
Hypha HQ, Euston Tower, London
United Kingdom
2023

Fac simile
Open Hand Open Space, Reading
United Kingdom
2025

Ongoing “Meme”
Gallery 2, Sugar House Island,London
United Kingdom
2025

Actor Network Project
Hangar Space, Royal College of Art, London,
United Kingdom
2024

One Must Imagine us happy
Lethaby Gallery, UAL, London
United, 2024

A Fire in the Sky, Smoke on the Water
Hypha HQ, Euston Tower, London
United Kingdom
2024

Some Shreds
Phoenix Athens Gallery and Residency
Greece
2023

Wandering Around
Art Projects Gallery
Hong Kong
2023

Concrete + Jungle
Korean Cultural Centre in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
2023

Light Up
Goethe-Institut Hongkong, Art Centre
Hong Kong
2022

“Colors of Humanity” Art Prize 2022
Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Art Centre
Hong Kong
2022

Light Up
Sohohouse
Hong Kong
2022

Be 40 Mixed-Media
Exhibition Fringe Club,
Hong Kong
2022

Bed Throw
Wure Area
Hong Kong
2022

To be Continued
Sin Sin Fine Art
Hong Kong
2022
Residency

Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency, Greece
Cultural Exchange Grant by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2023


Press
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Last Updated 24.10.31
Kinetic and Sonic Sculptures / Painting-Object Assemblages
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The Sound of Memento,
MFA Fine Art Degree show
Goldsmiths, University of London
United Kingdom, 2025







(video documentation by @about_yeeun)
"Noise of Memento"
5.23(w) x 1.7M(h)



In this show, as the final task of this 2-year MFA programme in Goldsmiths, I created four kinectic sculptures that generate different sounds in a room. This acts as a prologue of my next project of creating an orchestra through objects to examine the performativity generated by movenment, sound and imagery.





The Sound of Memento,
MFA Fine Art Degree show
Goldsmiths, University of London
United Kingdom, 2025









(video documentation by @about_yeeun)
1. The Ghost
2. Cage of the Past
3. The Uninvited Whisper before Oblivion

The incorporation of the hook of loop strips is to investigate how objects can perform to generate an affective atmosphere and to get out of the control of us. The strips rotate, rub against each other and struggle to detach, this creates the randomness of movement to generate manifold rhythm and trigger multifarious compositions of sound. Such a dissociation from my manipulation is how I examine the performative agency and withdrawal qualities of those created entities.





Art residency in Athens, Greece 2023 “Attachment to Life”
Phoenix Gallery,
Athens, 2023

Around one month residency in Athens, I attempted to observe and know more about the city, wandering around the city, meeting people and sightseeing. Ended up I found the materials from the street and Lycabettus Hill that can have the complete view of the city. From domestic product to the plants that reflecting the weather, while I created four works related to Greek Myths and religion.  







A Tangle of lives
A Tangle of lives (close-up)
Sandwiched lives
Sandwiched lives(close-up)
Wring out the light
Wring out the light (close up)


Wandering Around
Art Projects Gallery
Hong Kong
2023
Above:

1. Step into the void
39(W) x 131(H) x 33(D)cm
Enamel paint, Cement, Plaster and Sand, Twigs, Pantyhose

Below(Slide):

2. A Tangle of lives
31(W) x 153(H) x 42(D)cm
Oil, Enamel paint, Cement, Plaster on Mattress foam, Twigs, PVC tube, electrical wires

3. Sandwiched lives
45(W) x 148(H) x 20(D)cm
Oil, Enamel paint, Cement on Mattress foam, Branch, T-shirts

4. Wring out the light
93(W) x 13(H) x 17(D)cm
Oil, Enamel paint, Cement, Plaster Mattress foam, Fluorescent light





Doubtful Memory
Anita Chan Lai-Ling Gallery,
Hong Kong
2021
Wet room
220(W) x 174(H) x 156(D)cm

My deput Solo exhibition in Hong Kong that inpsired by a line in a novel “The Drunkard”, written by Lau Yichang. This exhibtion is about the objects as memory carrier of Hong Kong, especially the period of the 80s and the humidity of the city. This is the first time I paint directly onto the objects to examine the three-dimensionality of the painting surface.




Doubtful Memory
Anita Chan Lai-Ling Gallery,
Hong Kong
2021
1. Wet memory
2. Someone ever live here
3. An Alley at somewhere
















© Ka Chun Chung 2025