Securities Firms Hosting Art Exhibitions... Discovering Young Artists

Eugene Investment & Securities, 'Slowly Cooling Down' Exhibition Until March 29

Eugene Group’s financial affiliate, Eugene Investment & Securities, announced on the 7th that it is holding the first content exhibition titled “Warming Up Lukewarmly” as part of the project to discover and nurture young artists in collaboration with Hongik University College of Fine Arts, called ‘Space Eu-Bloom with Hongik’.

The exhibition is being held on the first floor of the Eugene Investment & Securities Champions Lounge Financial Center located on Hakdong-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and will run until March 29. Four artists who graduated from Hongik University College of Fine Arts and Graduate School of Fine Arts (Byeon Mi-kyung, Lee Hye-jin, Choi Ae-rim, Han Yoon-je) have submitted 26 works.

The participating artists in “Warming Up Lukewarmly” interpret the “temperature encountered in daily life” in their own ways through various forms such as sculpture and oil painting. Artist Byeon Mi-kyung depicts incidents occurring in a kiln, Lee Hye-jin focuses on the temperature of the external environment surrounding daily life, Choi Ae-rim views the subject with a warm yet cool temperature, and Han Yoon-je defines the temperature of daily life as the degree of the heart that captures what we observe.

The exhibition is open to the public free of charge, with viewing hours from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. However, the exhibition hall is closed on weekends and public holidays.

This exhibition is the first outcome of the collaborative project ‘Space Eu-Bloom with Hongik’ between Eugene Investment & Securities and Hongik University College of Fine Arts aimed at discovering and nurturing promising artists. The two institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in January this year to promote art and discover and nurture young promising artists. They plan to jointly present content to foster an ecosystem for the growth of the art industry and the development of promising artists.

Eugene Investment & Securities has actively supported and sponsored contemporary art to strengthen ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) management. In September last year, it promoted the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale exhibition to the public and held the ‘Eugene Art Check-in’ event linked to the exhibition to enrich visitors’ experience.

In December, it collaborated with the Seoul Museum of Art to discover outstanding emerging artists and supported a social contribution program that produces art souvenirs reflecting the artists’ work. Additionally, from 2020 to 2022, Eugene Investment & Securities was the only financial company to participate in the ‘Art Prize Gangnam,’ an art festival hosted by Gangnam-gu, supporting exhibitions of various artworks by young artists.

Lee Ok-hyung, Head of New Growth Strategy Investment Office at Eugene Investment & Securities, who led this project, said, “This exhibition is the first content of the project jointly promoted by Eugene Investment & Securities and Hongik University College of Fine Arts. We plan to continuously introduce programs to discover and nurture promising emerging artists, and Eugene Investment & Securities will take the lead in creating a bridge ecosystem between art and finance.”

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