"Tiles and architectural surfaces are things I have been drawn to for many years. I am particularly interested in repetition, colours and structures in our daily surroundings – things that we usually walk right past, but that manage to repeatedly catch my eye. I incorporate these impressions into my work and use them to develop own forms and small spatial structures. By doing so, colour, surface and form become my language for space."

Jiye Yun, born in 1988 in Chuncheon, South Korea, lives and works in Munich. She studied jewellery and metal design at Kookmin University in Seoul, where she earned her BA in 2011 and her MA in 2014. During her bachelor’s program, she spent two semesters as an exchange student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, Canada. In 2016, she moved to Germany and started studying in the class for Jewellery and Hollowware with Professor Karen Pontoppidan at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, graduating in 2022 with a diploma. Since then, she lives and works in Munich. Her work has been shown in Europe, South Korea and USA, amongst others. In 2023, she was awarded first place for the BKV Prize and was chosen to exhibit as part of the International Crafts Fair in Munich. In 2026, she presented her first solo show "Tunnel" in Peking.