JR “Women Are Heroes” Exhibition

Here is an exciting venture to come from Freiburg, with Gallery Springmann.Varol opening with the profound French artist JR. JR’s “Women Are Heroes” Exhibition opens on April 24 and is the beginning of an impressive new space. Gallerist Henrik Springmann and entrepreneur/art collector Selim Varol have teamed up to open the gallery and create something with great distinction.

JR’s project pays tribute to the scores of women who are dealing with the effects of war, poverty, violence, and oppression on a daily basis. He meets them in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Phnom Penh, Delhi, and Kibera/Kenya and with his camera, he captures their faces in moments of emotion. JR’s works document the personal histories of the people he photographs and his works in interior spaces – photographs and collages on various media – are already well-established and respected throughout the international contemporary art world.

Let's Colour...

The paint project using bright colors to transform neighborhoods
The pet project of paint company Dulux, Let's Colour is an international outreach project in which volunteers travel to drab and dreary corners of the world and enliven them with a fresh coat of paint. "Color your world" is the tagline for the program that hopes to transform communities by the brushstroke.


This year the Let's Colour crew has travelled to London, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and Jodhpur to find and help neighborhoods paint themselves anew. They hope to expand to other countries, including Turkey, throughout the year.
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